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• Movie Review: “Little Women” (2019)

  By Josh Lasser on December 18, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  There is a beautiful, incredible, level of truth which bursts forth from Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women.” It is there in every in every frame, in every line, in every face. This is not to say… Read More ›

• A Podcast Episode on Change… Sort of

  By Josh Lasser on December 17, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  What is it that make “Where’d you go, Bernadette?” and “Once Upon a time… in Hollywood” similar?  Well, honestly, they’re both about ways of altering our existence.  In the former it is one woman pulling herself out of a funk… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Jumanji: The Next Level”

  By Josh Lasser on December 12, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  editor’s note: I feel it essential to state before this review is read that I was under the weather for the screening and while I still believe my take on the movie to be accurate (or I wouldn’t publish it),… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Uncut Gems”

  By Josh Lasser on December 11, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  As the credits started to roll on “Uncut Gems,” the new Adam Sandler film written and directed by the Safdie brothers (Ronald Bronstein also has a writing credit), I checked my pulse. That is not hyperbole. My watch monitors my… Read More ›

• “The Fly” and Social Media Problems

  By Josh Lasser on December 10, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The goal of the technological breakthrough in “The Fly” movies is to make the world smaller and better… which is awfully similar to the goal of social media.  Of course, in both instances things go horribly awry, don’t they?  People… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Bombshell”

  By Josh Lasser on December 9, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Read any critic long enough and you’ll notice that they have certain hobby horses. They will tell you over and over again about how various movies fail or succeed at something that they find particularly interesting, or regularly return to… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Grand Isle” (2019)

  By Josh Lasser on December 4, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Nicolas Cage appears in a lot of movies and while they are sometimes here-and-gone affairs, the actor regularly brings an intensity to his roles that makes them highly watchable. This intensity is certainly present in his latest film, “Grand Isle.”… Read More ›

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