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COVID-19 Streaming List

March 12, 2020 0 Comments

Just in case you're caught at home wondering what you can do to pass the time, here's a list of films that, if you haven't seen, you should, and if…

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Review: Corpus Christi (Boze Cialo)

March 5, 2020 0 Comments

Based on a true story, Corpus Christi is the tale of 20-year-old Daniel (Bartosz Bielenia) who, just sprung from a violent juvenile detention center and heading for a new job,…

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Review: Balloon (Ballon)

February 27, 2020 0 Comments

Seems like all I'm seeing lately are film based on true stories. In this one, two families living in Cold War East Germany in 1979 plan a daring escape to…

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Review: Beanpole (Дылда)

February 13, 2020 0 Comments

War is hell. And life after war is, too. Most war films concentrate on the effects that the carnage has on men, but this Russian melodrama looks at how the women…

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Mini-reviews: 2020 Oscar-Nominated Short Films

February 7, 2020 0 Comments

If you're planning to watch the Academy Awards this weekend, chances are you haven't had a chance to catch the shorts. I mean, who does? Unless you're lucky enough to…

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Mini review: Marriage Story

December 23, 2019 0 Comments

Both of us Chicks saw this one at the Middleburg Film Festival earlier this year where it was the opening night film. From director Noah Baumbach (Margot at the Wedding,…

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Arty Chick’s Middleburg Film Festival Download 2019

October 23, 2019 0 Comments

Another super tiring weekend in the bucolic Virginia hamlet of Middleburg watching more films than I should! I predicted early on that this festival would outgrow itself and I think…

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Mainstream Chick’s 2019 Middleburg Film Festival Recap

October 22, 2019 0 Comments

There’s something addictive about the Middleburg Film Festival. It’s not like I rank among press that is comped for transportation, put up in the festival’s home base – the swanky…

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Review: For Sama

July 25, 2019 0 Comments

For Sama is a thoroughly engrossing and heart-wrenching documentary made by the mother of a baby born in Aleppo, Syria during the rebel uprising and daily bombings. Sama's mother Waad…

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Quick Takes: Never Look Away; Transit; Woman at War

March 10, 2019 0 Comments

With Arty Chick off to parts unknown to direct a documentary, it’s possible her reviews will be fewer and farther between for a while. So I will try and highlight…

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Quickie Review: Minding the Gap

February 18, 2019 0 Comments

I'm not a big fan of the skateboarding scene and when I heard this documentary was one of the five Oscar nominees, I knew I had to watch, but I…

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Review: I Am Not a Witch

February 17, 2019 0 Comments

In this odd little satirical film from Zambian-born director Rungano Nyoni, 8-year-old Shula (Maggie Mulubwa) is branded a witch and sent away to the camp where all the other witches…

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Review: Oscar Nominated Short Films 2019

February 6, 2019 0 Comments

I always look forward to watching the shorts. (Short being 40 minutes or less, so some of them aren't all that short.) This year's crop had clear winners and losers…

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Review: Cold War

January 15, 2019 0 Comments

In this passionate love story set in Soviet-era Poland, Zula, a young singer with a past, enters a state-run performing academy where she meets the love of her life, Wictor,…

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Review: Capernaum (Capharnaüm)

December 18, 2018 0 Comments

"Capernaum in French is used usually in French literature to signify chaos, to signify hell, disorder," according to Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki, director of this emotionally wrenching film. At the center…