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• Movie Review: “Happily”

  By Josh Lasser on March 17, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  “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 ›

• Not Quite the Video Store

  By Josh Lasser on March 16, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Movie Review: “Yes Day”

  By Josh Lasser on March 11, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Movie Review: “Cosmic Sin”

  By Josh Lasser on March 10, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• “‘Til Kingdom Come” and Interesting Alliances

  By Josh Lasser on March 9, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Movie Review: “Coming 2 America”

  By Josh Lasser on March 5, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Finding the “Horizon Line”

  By Josh Lasser on March 4, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Movie Review: “Moxie” (2021)

  By Josh Lasser on March 3, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Author Tim O’Brien Discusses “The War and Peace of Tim O’Brien”

  By Josh Lasser on March 2, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Movie Review: “Cherry” (2021)

  By Josh Lasser on February 25, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Movie Review: “Crisis” (2021)

  By Josh Lasser on February 24, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• On the “John Hughes 5-Movie Collection,” but Mostly Steve Martin

  By Josh Lasser on February 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Movie Review: “I Care a Lot”

  By Josh Lasser on February 19, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Movie Review: “Nomadland”

  By Josh Lasser on February 18, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• “Lady Sings the Blues” but does she Speak the Truth?

  By Josh Lasser on February 16, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Movie Review: “Fear of Rain”

  By Josh Lasser on February 12, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  “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 ›

• Movie Review: “Barb and Star go to Vista Del Mar”

  By Josh Lasser on February 12, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Comedy can be subjective. What one person finds funny, another will not. I have no doubt that it is possible to go out and read many reviews which describe “Barb & Star go to Vista Del Mar” as a “comedic… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The World to Come”

  By Josh Lasser on February 11, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  It is perhaps too obvious a statement to say that the way in which a story unfolds is crucial. Still, obvious or not, it remains true. I am thinking here, specifically, of a tale’s point of view. Whether it offers… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Land” (2021)

  By Josh Lasser on February 10, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  We all know that dialogue is crucial in movies. The right words, said in the right way can make all the difference. What is often overlooked in such a discussion, however, is that the right bit of silence can matter… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Cowboys” (2021)

  By Josh Lasser on February 10, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the terrible truths about being human and the world being imperfect is that just because you’re doing the best you can, just because you think you’re doing the right thing, just because you’re trying your hardest, it doesn’t… Read More ›

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