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• Not all Trips are Created Equal: “The Little Prince” and “Elizabethtown”

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

  

  Out today on Blu-ray are Cameron Crowe’s “Elizabethtown” and Mark Osborne’s take on “The Little Prince.” Both movies are–as is the case with so many films–about people learning about themselves and growing. They are about the journey, literal and metaphorical…. Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The Mauritanian”

  By Josh Lasser on February 8, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  We, as a nation, would choose to believe that we are, for lack of a better term, the chosen people. It is a notion that exists in much of our pomp and circumstance, much of the way we talk about… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Bliss” (2021)

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

  

  ***I’m sure I’m going to spoil something for someone here. Don’t read if you want to go in without knowing anything at all.*** I am not quite sure how to start this review… On the one hand, I enjoyed writer-director… Read More ›

• Director Eliza Schroeder on “Love Sarah” and Filming Food

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

  

  As you will hear, I thoroughly enjoyed Eliza Schroeder’s film, “Love Sarah.”  The movie is about three women who finds themselves opening a bakery to honor a lost loved one.  Schroeder tells us how the idea came about, how long… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The Little Things”

  By Josh Lasser on January 28, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  When we meet John “Deke” Deacon in writer-director John Lee Hancock’s “The Little Things,” he is working as a patrol deputy in part of California’s Central Valley. We soon learn that he took that job after leaving Los Angeles, where… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Supernova” (2021)

  By Josh Lasser on January 28, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The power of a movie doesn’t necessarily have to be in its offering a new idea. That can be a part of it, certainly, but execution is also crucial. The best ideas amount to nothing if they’re carried out badly… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Saint Maud”

  By Josh Lasser on January 27, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  editor’s note: the below was originally written last year, as the film had been set for US release at that time. It is coming out, instead, this Friday and we are publishing the review to coincide with this new release… Read More ›

• Danny Kaye’s “The Court Jester” and Mel Gibson’s “Fatman”

  By Josh Lasser on January 26, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  As a youth, Josh avoided Danny Kaye movies. It felt like there was always one that was on TV or about to be on TV and he skipped them. As he now realizes, that was a terribly grievous error. “The… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The White Tiger” (2021)

  By Josh Lasser on January 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  At one point in writer-director Ramin Bahrani’s “The White Tiger,” which is out on Netflix today, the main character makes an oblique reference to “Slumdog Millionaire.” The point of it is to contrast one film with the other. This movie,… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Penguin Bloom”

  By Josh Lasser on January 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Any number of films exist seemingly with the goal of making the audience cry. Whether the tears come from upset or joy or one leading to the other or vice versa, all too often we get stories that seem to… Read More ›

• One “Empty Man,” One Daft Movie

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

  

  There is, we suspect, something brilliant buried somewhere within “The Empty Man.”  Based on a graphic novel, the movie stars James Badge Dale and focuses itself on… well, even telling you that might be a bit spoilery.  Of course, that… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Outside the Wire”

  By Josh Lasser on January 14, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  There is unquestionably an argument to be made that we don’t need another movie telling us that building sentient robots—especially robots to fight wars—is a bad idea. We have seen the notion play out multiple times, and so often with… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The Marksman” (2021)

  By Josh Lasser on January 13, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  There are a large number of things which I don’t understand about the new Liam Neeson movie, “The Marksman.” I have questions about the number of roads that lead from Arizona to Chicago, the time traveling it would take to… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Some Kind of Heaven”

  By Josh Lasser on January 13, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  In the leadup to Joe Biden’s November victory in the Presidential Election, I saw more than one article about arguments at The Villages, a massive retirement community in Florida. Trump, infamously, < a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/us/politics/trump-white-power-video-racism.html”>retweeted one racist moment their (naturally, he… Read More ›

• Not on “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” nor “The Midnight Sky”

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

  

  The goal for this week’s podcast had been to look at two Netflix movies we missed in 2020 — “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “The Midnight Sky.”  Of course, after that plan had been put into motion, things happened last… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “One Night in Miami…”

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

  

  At the end of last year, much was made of whether or not the TV series “The Crown” should put a disclaimer before episodes which, essentially, explain that the series is not a documentary. Yes, the show may feature real… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Skyfire”

  By Josh Lasser on January 7, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Human beings have blind spots and movies are a result of the work of human beings, so it’s probably not terribly surprising that they have blind spots as well. We should expect them, but perhaps not forgive them. They are… Read More ›

• “Grizzly II” and (Re)Completing a Project

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

  

  “Grizzly II” was shot in the early ’80s. Or, part of it was shot then. A producer left the movie, the money ran out, and decades later a different producer of the film, Suzanne Csikos Nagy, returned to the project… Read More ›

• “Love and Monsters” and Covid

  By Josh Lasser on December 29, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Arriving on Blu-ray and 4K UHD next week is the movie “Love and Monsters.”  It came out theatrically (if that means anything in 2020) this October and if you’re like me, you missed it.  You just missed it.  Well, if… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Wonder Woman 1984”

  By Josh Lasser on December 24, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The 1980s, we are often told, was a decade of excess, a decade of nonstop movement centered around a push for more; for bigger, which is always better. That ethos seems to be the guiding principle of Patty Jenkins’ new… Read More ›

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