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Josh Lasser is a freelance entertainment reporter/critic. His work has appeared in print, online, and perhaps one day in book form.
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“Raya” and the Best Viewing Option
This is going to be a conversation we keep having. There are just so many streaming options out there and it can be tough to know the right thing to do. This week we’re going to flip things slightly from… Read More ›
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Movie Review: “Voyagers” (2021)
There is a hazard in writing a review of a less than great (or less than good) movie that it become simply a litany of what is wrong with the film. The farther from good the movie, the more problems… Read More ›
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Movie Review: “Held” (2021)
I love a good mystery. Even if a movie itself is not within the mystery genre, if I get something to puzzle over as the story unfolds, I’m in. My concern—anyone’s concern—is that the solution to the mystery won’t be… Read More ›
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“Our Friend” and Bad Movie Titles
There are any number of reasons to remember this week’s podcast. Perhaps though it is most likely that you will walk away thinking of our discussion of movie titles. “Our Friend” is based on a piece in Esquire called “The… Read More ›
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Movie Review: “Concrete Cowboy”
A defining characteristic of many westerns—some may say of the genre as a whole—is the pushback against an encroaching modern world; the fight of the cowboy to preserve his way of life even as the end seems inevitable. Whatever else… Read More ›
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We Need to Talk About “News of the World”
Tom Hanks is a great actor and Paul Greengrass makes some incredible movies. The latest endeavor for the two men, “News of the World,” is now out on Blu-ray. The movie finds Hanks as Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a man… Read More ›
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Movie Review: “The Seventh Day” (2021)
There are some movies that you watch where you can instantly sense that something is off – the story, as presented, makes no sense. At that point, there are two basic ways to understand what is taking place – either… Read More ›
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Movie Review: “Nobody” (2021)
We have all seen the action movie about the normal, average, guy who is thrust into an abnormal situation. One spin on this tale is to make the guy seem normal at first, but to give him a secretive past,… Read More ›
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Movie Review: “Senior Moment” (2021)
There is a world in which a movie starring William Shatner, Jean Smart, Christopher Lloyd, and Esai Morales is a work of comedic genius. That world actually could hypothetically be our world. A new movie out this week that features… Read More ›
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“The Greatest Show on Earth” that Never was
I thoroughly enjoyed watching “The Greatest Show on Earth,” which is out next week on Blu-ray. All the same, I had a nagging feeling throughout. Sure, it looked like the animals in the circus were being treated well, but that… Read More ›
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Movie Review: “The Courier” (2021)
To call a movie a “spy story” may offer a general idea of what it is about, but the term is also too broad to truly tell one what to expect while watching. Is it action-based? Is it a drama?… Read More ›
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Movie Review: “Happily”
“What exactly am I watching?” Every so often, there is a movie which causes you to ask the question over and over and over again. “What is this?” “What am I seeing?” “What?” “How?” “Huh?” All too often, those questions… Read More ›
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Not Quite the Video Store
We are stepping away from our new release of the week/interview format here this week in favor of a discussion of streaming services. No, they’re not as good as a video store of old. They are organized badly and do… Read More ›
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Movie Review: “Yes Day”
We have all heard the phrase “don’t judge a book by its cover,” and yet it is something many of us do, at least on occasion. Who amongst us hasn’t seen a poster or a trailer or a TV commercial… Read More ›
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Movie Review: “Cosmic Sin”
Some movies operate like a fever dream. You watch them and you stare in wonder at everything that is taking place on screen. Of course, that wonder could be good or it could be bad. The movie could be great… Read More ›
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“‘Til Kingdom Come” and Interesting Alliances
Would you work with people who most definitely believe that you’re either going to have to change your religion or burn? I don’t know that I would (although that would be “change your lack of religion” in my case). Director… Read More ›
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Movie Review: “Coming 2 America”
It is one of those notions that is too often true – while we may lead calls for change when we are young; as we age, we become more accepting of the status quo. Yes, we get older and the… Read More ›
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Finding the “Horizon Line”
Hello and sort of welcome to a new “Lass is More.” Or maybe “welcome to a new sort of ‘Lass is More’” is a better way to start. I originally intended to talk about this movie in an episode of… Read More ›
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Movie Review: “Moxie” (2021)
There is a line in “Moxie,” Amy Poehler’s new Netflix film, about celebrating “the end of the mediocre white dude’s chokehold on success.” As a strictly mediocre white dude, I applaud sentiment and simultaneously note that anything I write below… Read More ›
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Author Tim O’Brien Discusses “The War and Peace of Tim O’Brien”
In high school we read Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried.” The book has stayed with me from that time to this. Now, the author is at the center of a new documentary, “The War and Peace of Tim O’Brien.”… Read More ›
