Review Archive

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Monday, September 22, 2025

In Memoriam: Robert Redford

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In addition to being an actor, activist, and philanthropist, Robert Redford also founded a filmmaking institute and a subsequent film festiv...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Friday's Old Fashioned: The Anderson Tapes (1971)

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“The Anderson Tapes” is a weird ass movie. Sorry to be profane, and I intend it partly as a compliment, but weird ass is simply the best way...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

It's the Speeches, Stupid

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At some point, around the time when play-by-play announcer Mike Breen and color commentators Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson became the toas...
Monday, September 15, 2025

The Thursday Murder Club

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Richard Osman’s 2020 novel “The Thursday Murder Club” succeeded by impeccably blending playful murder mystery with thoughtful matters of lif...
Friday, September 12, 2025

Friday's Old Fashioned: The Hunt for Red October (1990)

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I had not seen the seminal dad movie “The Hunt for Red October” since I saw it with my dad on home video in the early 90s, and I had forgot...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Mann Men (For a Livin’)

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Friend of the Blog Jaime recently forwarded me a Los Angeles Review of Books piece from March by Clayton Purdom dissecting the oeuvre of M...
Monday, September 08, 2025

She Rides Shotgun

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If ever there were a middling thriller that deserved the meritorious distinction of More Than Middling, it is Nick Rowland’s “She Rides Shot...