Category: Theatrical Review

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May 1, 2024

I Saw the TV Glow: Don’t Sit So Close, by Scott Nye

For the past twenty years, and exploding further in the days of streaming, most everyone you meet seems to be addicted to some TV show. It’s one of the easier addictions to feed – if it’s not already on a...

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April 11, 2024

Sting: Harmless, by Tyler Smith

I’m terrified of spiders. And so are you. Everybody is. Those who say they are not are either liars or not paying close enough attention. Spiders are monsters. As proof, we need only look at the horror genre. Whether big...

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April 11, 2024

Chicken for Linda!: Fowl Adventure, by Scott Nye

“Simple task becomes wholly complicated” is a tried-and-true storytelling approach going back to slapstick two-reelers. We all, to some degree, feel like life is too much of a bother as it is, and any attempt to go the extra mile...

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April 4, 2024

The First Omen: Symphonic Terror, by Scott Nye

The First Omen, the sixth film in a nearly-fifty-year-old film series, on the face of things, has no reason to be exceptional. All the objective things you can read about it lead to the easy conclusion that it is not....

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April 3, 2024

Coup de Chance: Write Your Ending, by Scott Nye

Coup de Chance is Woody Allen’s 50th, and potentially final, theatrical film, and one would hardly say his most original. Revisiting themes of luck, misfortune, guilt, and violence, comparisons to Crimes and Misdemeanors, Irrational Man, Match Point, Cassandra’s Dream, and...

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April 2, 2024

The Beast: Doll-drums Through the Century, by Scott Nye

Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast opens with a scene that both enigmatically alludes to the action to come, yet also suggests the abyss it will pointedly explore without resolving – Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux), an actress in 2014 Los Angeles, walks into...

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March 27, 2024

Lousy Carter: Talking Yourself to Death, by Scott Nye

Writer/director Bob Byington has carved out an enviable, if regrettably low-profile, place in the film industry, regularly turning out expertly-tuned comedies with stellar casts that rarely get wide enough distribution to be seen by many. His latest film, Lousy Carter,...

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January 3, 2024

Occupied City: McQueen and Country, by Scott Nye

In his historical dramas – Hunger, 12 Years a Slave, and the five films he made under the Small Axe anthology banner – director Steve McQueen has routinely created close ties between the past and the present, between the motivations...

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December 14, 2023

The Zone of Interest: Distanced Lives, Absent Voices, by Scott Nye

Jonathan Glazer’s fourth film, The Zone of Interest, is almost literally a museum piece. Shot in a house on the grounds of Auschwitz, on the outskirts of the camp, it depicts the domestic life of real-life figure Rudolph Höss, the...

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December 12, 2023

The Taste of Things: Carving and Serving, by Scott Nye

The classic “dinner and a movie” date set-up never quite tracked to me. You either have to eat quite early or catch a later movie, by which time you’re prone to falling asleep, not in the least because you just...

Category: Theatrical Review

I Saw the TV Glow: Don’t Sit So Close, by Scott Nye

Sting: Harmless, by Tyler Smith

Chicken for Linda!: Fowl Adventure, by Scott Nye

The First Omen: Symphonic Terror, by Scott Nye

Coup de Chance: Write Your Ending, by Scott Nye

The Beast: Doll-drums Through the Century, by Scott Nye

Lousy Carter: Talking Yourself to Death, by Scott Nye

Occupied City: McQueen and Country, by Scott Nye

The Zone of Interest: Distanced Lives, Absent Voices, by Scott Nye

The Taste of Things: Carving and Serving, by Scott Nye

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