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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: The Dig

February 1, 2021 0 Comments

I'll be the first to admit that I had no idea where Sutton Hoo was or that it was the site of one of the great archeological finds of the…

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Review: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela

January 31, 2021 0 Comments

This immersive documentary was seven years in the making. It takes place in Congo Mirador, a small village bordering Lake Maracaibo in northern Venezuela. At one time it was a…

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Arty Chick’s Seven Picks: Week 8

January 25, 2021 0 Comments

This week's picks include classics and cult faves. There's only one foreign film in the bunch for a change of pace. Two of the films come from the same director,…

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Review: One Night in Miami

January 14, 2021 0 Comments

Academy Award winning actress Regina King's extraordinary directorial debut is an adaptation of a play that tells the story of one evening in 1964 when four African-American icons get together…

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Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 7

January 10, 2021 0 Comments

This week's picks won boatloads of Oscars and had nominations galore. They hail from France, and Italy, and Germany, and Spain, and one has no dialogue. When I put together…

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Review: Da Five Bloods

December 28, 2020 0 Comments

I can't believe it's taken me so long to watch this one, but since awards season is sneaking up and screeners are flying into my mailbox, I finally bit the…

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Review: Small Axe: Mangrove

December 25, 2020 0 Comments

The first film of Steve McQueen's (12 Years a Slave) Small Axe anthology sets a high bar for the 5-part series. Mangrove tells the true story of a group that…

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Review: The Midnight Sky

December 23, 2020 0 Comments

Not sure what George Clooney thought he was making, but this post-apocalyptic drama is a slog. In it a heavily bearded Augustine Lofthouse (Clooney) is left behind at an arctic…

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Arty Chick’s Seven Picks: Week 6

December 22, 2020 0 Comments

This week's picks include two French films that couldn't be more dissimilar, one a psychological thriller, and the other a magical story set in Paris. There's an Italian ode to…

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Review: News of the World

December 22, 2020 0 Comments

Why does Tom Hanks make everything just a bit more comforting? In his latest, he plays Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a Civil War veteran who travels from town to town…

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Review: First Cow

December 20, 2020 0 Comments

Sometime in the early 19th century somewhere in the Pacific Northwest two men meet in the woods near a trappers' encampment. One of them is naked. What follows is the…

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Review: Saint Frances

December 18, 2020 0 Comments

Written by and starring Kelly O'Sullivan Saint Frances is a small dark comedy that centers on the expectations women live with and one young woman's choices. Bridget (O'Sullivan) is in…

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Arty Chick’s Seven Picks: Week 5

December 14, 2020 0 Comments

This week’s picks include a healthy dose of Roman decadence, an obsessive and tragic snoop, a ghostly romance, a grieving mother on the warpath, violent union busting, food to die…

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Quickie Review: My Psychedelic Love Story

December 11, 2020 0 Comments

This latest documentary from Academy Award winning filmmaker Errol Morris (The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line) centers on Joanna Harcourt-Smith and her relationship with the father of psychedelics,…