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Sexy Beast [RAVE]

I sometimes feel like I am the only one who saw this movie. No one remembers it, watched it, or even read about it (and it was lauded during its run) It haunts me. I don’t know why. Very few movies stay with me. This one has set up camp in my head, albeit purely […]

Lost In Translation [rave]

“What you miss in “Marie Antoinette” — and in “Lost in Translation,” for that matter — is the burning human urgency and aesthetic wit Coppola brought to 1999’s “The Virgin Suicides,” her first and still her best movie.”
This quote, read in a review of Marie Antoinette (which I have not seen) made me want to […]

The Life Aquatic [rant and rave]

This movie has so much going for it. The preview was brilliant. Willam Dafoe is in it. Jeff Goldblum is in it. Bill Murray, Angelica Huston, Cate Blanchett, Owen Wilson all also star. It had an great premise, and an amazing set to go with it. The music was suble but if you paid attention […]


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