Tuesday, January 28, 2025

“Nickel Boys”: Style Over Substance

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I was looking forward to seeing the cinematic adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed 2019 novel about two young Black men stuck in a bru...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Everything But the Bathroom Sink: “The Brutalist”

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Y ou can’t say that writer/director Brady Corbet lacks ambition. During the three hours and thirty-five minutes of screentime that make up T...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Dancing through Time: “Wicked”

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Time marches on? Time dances on? I only know that I seem to have become too grown-up to thoroughly enjoy Wicked . Yes, of course I still lov...
Friday, January 17, 2025

Whatever Happened to Vera Miles?

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Vera Miles? Whatever happened to her? And who was she, anyway? Miles, who’s alive and well at 95, was an Oklahoma-born, Kansas-bred beauty p...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

The Fire Next Time: Roger Corman and Disaster Movies

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I haven’t wanted to write about the terrible conflagrations in my part of the world because it just makes me too sad. Life in West Los Angel...
Friday, January 10, 2025

“A Complete Unknown”: Bob Dylan Finds (and roars away from) Fame

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Watching the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown , was like returning (yikes!) to my college years. Though never a hardcore Dylan fan, I at...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

A (Semi) Golden Evening at the Golden Globes

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Who votes for the Golden Globes, anyway? The top-of-the-year awards ceremony used to be hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press, a small cadre...