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Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 4

November 27, 2020 0 Comments

This week's picks run the gamut from a classic Hollywood epic to one of my favorite action flicks. I've also chosen a bunch of foreign fare. Something from Russia, from…

Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 2

November 9, 2020 0 Comments

Week two of listing favorite films that may not be on your radar because they're not new. A few of these were made before I was born, and they're still…

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Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 1

November 2, 2020 0 Comments

What are you streaming this week? When the COVID-19 pandemic began, I started a list on my Facebook page, posting a film I love every day. That list has grown,…

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Review: Koko-di Koko-da

November 2, 2020 0 Comments

Just in time for the holidays comes a truly creepy flick from Sweden about a couple grieving the loss of their young daughter and their crumbling marriage who go on…

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Review: Martin Eden

October 12, 2020 0 Comments

Adapted from a Jack London autobiographical novel, Martin Eden is the story of a young working class Italian man who accidentally falls into the lives of the upper class and…

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Quickie Review: Killed My Wife

September 14, 2020 0 Comments

In this Korean thriller, a man wakes up from a drunken night. His clothes are covered in blood and he has no memory of how they got that way. But…

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Review: The Mole Agent

September 1, 2020 0 Comments

The Mole Agent feels very much like a narrative film even though it's a documentary, and that's a good thing. It tells the story of Sergio, an 83-year-old man recruited…

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Review: The Bare Necessity (Perdrix)

August 27, 2020 0 Comments

This French comedy is definitely for those who like their films on the quirky side. In it a young woman named Juliette (Maud Wyler, Blue Is the Warmest Colour) is…

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Quickie Review: The Prey

August 20, 2020 0 Comments

Human hunting movies seem to be the thing right now. Early this year there was the controversial American film The Hunt that disappeared onto Netflix in the blink of an…

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Quickie Review: Burning Ghost (Vif-argent)

August 19, 2020 0 Comments

When we meet Juste (Thimotée Robart) he's wandering on the train tracks somewhere in Paris, confused. He stops at a small house and the man there recognizes what is happening…

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Review: Sputnik

August 17, 2020 0 Comments

Russia, 1983. The Cold War is still raging. Two men are orbiting earth in a spacecraft, preparing for their reentry when there is an incident. And when they crash land…

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Review: The Painted Bird

July 16, 2020 0 Comments

Based on Jerzy Kosiński's novel, The Painted Bird is a brutal tale of a young nameless boy's fight to survive on his own during World War II in the wilds…

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Quickie review: The Tobacconist

July 10, 2020 0 Comments

In this coming-of-age story, set mostly in Vienna just as the Nazis are rising, 17-year-old Franz (Simon Morzé) arrives from the countryside to work at a tobacco shop owned by…

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Review: The Truth (La Vérité)

July 2, 2020 0 Comments

Director Hirokazu Koreeda's follow-up to his award winning Shoplifters could not be more different. No longer set in his home country Japan, The Truth is a mother-daughter drama set in…

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Review: Babyteeth

June 18, 2020 0 Comments

In this wonderfully dark dramedy from down under, Milla (Eliza Scanlen - Little Women) is a cancer stricken 16-year-old who falls for free spirited drug dealer Moses (Toby Wallace) much…