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• New York Film Festival Review: “Mudbound”

  By Josh Lasser on October 16, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  We are all human and thus we know what it is to be sad and to cry. Movies are able to elicit tears by pressing certain buttons and Dee Rees’ “Mudbound” is excellent at knowing just how to push those… Read More ›

• New York Film Festival Review: “Wonder Wheel”

  By Josh Lasser on October 15, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Justin Timberlake’s lifeguard/grad student, Mickey, wonderfully sets the stage in Woody Allen’s latest film, “Wonder Wheel.” In an opening explanation offered directly to the audience, he explains that we are at Coney Island following the Second World War. It is… Read More ›

• Not a Movie Review: “Marshall”

  By Josh Lasser on October 12, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Forgive me, this isn’t going to be quite a traditional review… “Marshall,” a biopic about Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (played here by Chadwick Boseman) is, honestly, less a biopic than an exploration of one case Marshall worked on in… Read More ›

• New York Comic-Con: The Experience of the “Experiences”

  By Josh Lasser on October 11, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the things that I have found most fascinating about New York Comic-Con in recent years has been the various “experiences” offered by companies to promote a game or a movie or a TV show. These are events of… Read More ›

• “Lass is More” isn’t Beguiled by “The Beguiled”

  By Josh Lasser on October 10, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  There are so many pieces that go into creating a movie or a TV show.  So many moving parts.  So many little tiny things that have to be worked out in order for the affair, as a whole, to be… Read More ›

• New York Comic-Con: I get “Psych”-ed

  By Josh Lasser on October 9, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  New York – Like any multi-day event with a whole lot of speakers, exhibitors, and patrons, New York Comic-Con is an ever-shifting experience. I wrote on Friday about that being my longest day and how I was going to have… Read More ›

• New York Comic-Con: “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency”

  By Josh Lasser on October 6, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  New York – Today is going to be my longest day at New York Comic-Con this year, starting with the Peter Capaldi panel at 10:30 this morning and ending, sometime tonight, with an “Orville” panel and then one for “Family… Read More ›

• New York Comic-Con: Peter Capaldi’s “Doctor Who” Victory Lap

  By Josh Lasser on October 6, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  New York – My relationship with Peter Capaldi’s Doctor started when I attended the New York press event for the 2014 world tour as his tenure on the show was just beginning. Last year I was there for Capaldi, Pearl… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The Mountain Between Us”

  By Josh Lasser on October 4, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  A pilot takes two passengers on a private flight through the mountains after a commercial one gets cancelled. There is bad weather coming in, the pilot has a nonchalant attitude, and… well, whatever may cause the plane to go down,… Read More ›

• “Lass is More” Tracks Down “Pirates of the Caribbean”

  By Josh Lasser on October 3, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  In this lightly spoiler-y (you have been warned) episode of the podcast, we delve into the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise in general and “Dead Men Tell no Tales” in particular. The new film, out on Blu-ray today, may be… Read More ›

• New York Film Festival Review: “Last Flag Flying”

  By Josh Lasser on September 29, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Although press screenings have been going on for the better part of two weeks, the 55th New York Film Festival officially began last night, and it did so with the world premiere of Richard Linklater’s newest movie, “Last Flag Flying.”… Read More ›

• New York Film Festival Review: “Before we Vanish”

  By Josh Lasser on September 28, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  My first New York Film Festival screening for this year (yes, second published review) was of a Japanese film called “Before we Vanish.” Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the film follows the journey of three aliens who invade human bodies. These aliens… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “American Made”

  By Josh Lasser on September 27, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Many films start off with some sort of brief up-tempo sequence – a high-energy bit to draw in the audience and get them involved before slowing the movie down to what will become its regular pace. Doug Liman’s “American Made”… Read More ›

• “Lass is More” Doesn’t let “A Ghost Story” eat pie

  By Josh Lasser on September 26, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  On this week’s podcast episode, we look at “A Ghost Story.”  The film, which stars Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck isn’t one that travels the straight and narrow.  It is a different story and it’s told in unique fashion.  One… Read More ›

• New York Film Festival 2017 Review: “Mrs. Hyde”

  By Josh Lasser on September 25, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  In 2016, the New York Film Fest offered up Isabelle Huppert in Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle.” Her performance in the film is outstanding and her Academy Award nomination for it is a well earned one (as is her Golden Globe win)…. Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Kingsman: The Golden Circle”

  By Josh Lasser on September 20, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  I like the first “Kingsman” movie, “Kingsman: The Secret Service.” It isn’t a perfect film by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s audacious in a way that too few films are. It is a movie which really goes for… Read More ›

• Lass is More on “The Big Sick,” “The Hero,” & Banana Gifs

  By Josh Lasser on September 19, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  What is it to be in a relationship?  How can such a thing be easily described?  How can it be encapsulated?  How is it that we form a bond with someone else; share a knowing understanding with them?  It isn’t… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Victoria & Abdul”

  By Josh Lasser on September 18, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Stephen Frears tackled a portion of Queen Elizabeth II’s life with his 2006 film, “The Queen.” With his latest movie though he’s moving back in time by more than a century to look at a wholly different Queen of England… Read More ›

• Can “Lass is More” Recommend “The Mummy” or “First Kill”

  By Josh Lasser on September 12, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  We have already talked on this podcast about the difficulties sometimes inherent in recommending a movie to a someone else.  This week we revisit the issue looking at two 2017 films — “The Mummy” and “First Kill.” To be sure,… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Home Again” (2017)

  By Josh Lasser on September 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  At one moment in “Home Again” (2017) the main character, Alice (Reese Witherspoon), finds herself lamenting her decision to have gotten married.  Now 40 and separated, Alice says (I’m taking the quote from the press notes, the emphasis is theirs),… Read More ›

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