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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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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 ›
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Movie Review: “Cherry” (2021)
The new film from directors Anthony and Joe Russo, begins with the title character, Cherry, relating his story to someone. This is done via voiceover and we don’t see where Cherry is or to whom he’s speaking. Although other movies… Read More ›
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Movie Review: “Crisis” (2021)
There are excellent, in-depth, incredible cinematic takes on the drug war. When one watches writer/director/producer Nicholas Jarecki’s “Crisis” it is easy to see exactly how it attempts to fit in the pantheon. Unfortunately, even if one ignores the rest of… Read More ›
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On the “John Hughes 5-Movie Collection,” but Mostly Steve Martin
There is a new John Hughes Blu-ray collection out today which includes five titles, two of which have never been released to Blu-ray before. Except for “She’s Having a Baby,” all the movies are great, but as you’ll hear, we… Read More ›
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Movie Review: “I Care a Lot”
Generally speaking, movies give us someone(s) to root for. Whether that’s two people getting together or folks saving the world or cops catching a killer or any number of other scenarios, when we sit down to watch a movie we… Read More ›
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Movie Review: “Nomadland”
Is it a happy movie or a sad one? That might feel like a pretty silly question, but it was the one that kept swirling around in my head as I watched Chloé Zhao’s latest film, “Nomadland.” Written and directed… Read More ›
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“Lady Sings the Blues” but does she Speak the Truth?
Facts are only one part of a story. Feelings are crucial as well. A set of facts only help so much, there has to be something there, some sense of emotional depth, to complement those facts. But what about the… Read More ›
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Movie Review: “Fear of Rain”
“Rear Window” is a great movie. Books have literally been written about its brilliance. One of the other interesting (and not always accurate) metrics of its greatness are the number of films which borrow some of the ideas of the… Read More ›
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