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Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 11

March 8, 2021 0 Comments

Most of this week’s films come from the 80s. There's a jewel heist, a race riot, a dystopian bounty hunter, an academia story, three murderers, a couple of divorces, and a…

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Review: The True Adventures of Wolfboy

November 5, 2020 0 Comments

In this oddball coming of age tale, Paul (Jaeden Martell, Knives Out, IT) is a kid just turning 13. He lives in rural New York with his dad, but has…

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Quickie Reviews: Gloria Bell; Yardie

March 17, 2019 0 Comments

What’s with all the remakes of decent if not exceptional foreign films lately? In recent months, we’ve seen Americanized versions of the 2011 feel-good French film The Intouchables (remade as…

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Quickie Reviews: Atomic Blonde and Landline

July 30, 2017 0 Comments

Atomic Blonde is set against the backdrop of the fall of the Berlin Wall in late 1989. As the Cold War appears to be nearing its end, the spy game…

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Mia Madre

August 25, 2016 0 Comments

This is not a film you will enjoy, but you may relate. The main character Margherita (Margherita Buy) is a film director whose life is falling apart around her. Her…