February, 2021 -

Arty Chick’s Seven Picks: Week 10

February 26, 2021 0 Comments

This week is heavy on movies about couples. They include rom-coms and complicated relationship stories, and the characters range from criminals to musicians to politicians, from kings to bakers. The…

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Review: Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry

February 25, 2021 0 Comments

Billie Eilish (aka Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell) first came to the music world’s attention in 2015 when the teenager uploaded her song “Ocean Eyes” to Soundcloud. But she didn’t…

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Review: The Independents

February 25, 2021 0 Comments

There are no big stars in this musical dramedy. It's a total indie flick. And it's a lot of fun. It tells the tale of three singer/songwriters all struggling to…

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Review: La Llorona

February 19, 2021 0 Comments

This political horror film takes its title from a Meso-American folkloric legend about the ghost of a woman who roams waterfront areas mourning her drowned children. In the film La…

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Quickie Review: Silk Road

February 18, 2021 0 Comments

Silk Road starts with a disclaimer. "This story is true. Except for what we made up or changed." In other words, creative and dramatic license was required to turn this…

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Quickie Review: 17 Blocks

February 17, 2021 0 Comments

I saw this one at AFI DOCS in 2019, back when we could still go to festivals. And it's just now coming into theaters virtually. 17 Blocks is a sad…

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Quickie Review: Disney’s Flora & Ulysses

February 17, 2021 0 Comments

I'm not exactly the target demo, but I thoroughly enjoyed Disney's Flora & Ulysses. It's a family adventure comedy based on the Newbery Award-winning book "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated…

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Quickie Reviews: Glitch in the Matrix, Bliss

February 15, 2021 0 Comments

There is a lot of talk these days in the scientific world about the scary possibility that we are all living in a computer simulation and aren't actually real. I…

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Quickie Review: The World To Come

February 12, 2021 0 Comments

Dreary. That's the life of the people who inhabit this film. It's 1859, somewhere in upstate New York, and a farmer and his wife, Abigail (Katherine Waterston, Fantastic Beasts, Steve…

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Review: Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar

February 11, 2021 0 Comments

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar is an extremely campy comedy that plays like an overlong skit on Saturday Night Live. It stars SNL alum Kristen Wiig (Wonder…

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Review: The Mauritanian

February 10, 2021 0 Comments

This drama based on Mohamedou Ould Slahi's NY Times best-selling memoir "Guantánamo Diary" tells the story of a man swept up in the US government's post-9/11 frenzy to find the perpetrators.…

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Review: French Exit

February 10, 2021 0 Comments

If this film does one good thing, it's that it reminds us what a wonderful screen presence Michelle Pfeiffer is. She stars as Frances, a New York socialite who, following…

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Review: The Map of Tiny Perfect Things

February 9, 2021 0 Comments

There’s certainly no shortage of movies featuring a time loop or “temporal anomaly.” There’s Groundhog Day, of course, as well as 12 Dates of Christmas, Before I Fall, Edge of…

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Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 9

February 9, 2021 0 Comments

Week Nine of films that I remember fondly. It's amazing how many great films come to mind when I go down my cinematic memory lane. A lot of this week's…

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Review: Judas and the Black Messiah

February 8, 2021 0 Comments

Judas and the Black Messiah is one of those movies you should watch, even if you don't really want to. It's another stark reminder of how the FBI operated under…

Month: February 2021