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Monthly Archives: December 2020
NYFCC Awards 2020
Today the members of the NYFCC (New York Film Critics Circle) voted on this year’s best. We did it over Zoom. We normally meet in person. They are anonymous ballots, and it’s an involved system – you need a certain … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Directors, Movies
Tagged animation, Brazil, comedy, documentary, drama, England, short films, Spike Lee, women directors
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Rogerebert.com: Top 10 Films of 2020
Don’t listen to people who bemoan the state of cinema in this strange strange year where so much was cancelled, put on hold. It’s an interesting thing: summer, for the first time in two decades, was not dominated by tent-pole … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
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Music Monday: SDSS14+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter), by Brendan O’Malley
My talented brother Brendan O’Malley is an amazing writer and actor. He’s wonderful in the recent You & Me, directed by Alexander Baack. (I interviewed Baack about the film here.) His most recent gig was story editor/writer on the hit … Continue reading
Review: Assassins (2020)
For those of you – like myself – who caught wind of the first part of this crazy story – that Kim Jong-un’s half-brother was assassinated in broad daylight by two teenage girls – and then didn’t follow along as … Continue reading
Review: Wander Darkly (2020)
I was almost surprised by how much this movie really touched me, moved me. I was almost shook, if you want to know the truth. I hope my review for Ebert expresses that, and intrigues people enough to check out … Continue reading
Loneliness and Lovers Rock
Shaniqua Okwok and Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn in Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock” Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock, part of his Small Axe anthology (5 films depicting the life of West Indians in London) is a dreamy swoon of a movie. I’m not … Continue reading
Dynamic Duo #27
Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, photo by Carl Van Vechten
November 2020 Viewing Diary
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993; d. Steven Zaillian) Popped this fave in because I was still revved up by Queen’s Gambit … I love this movie so much. Makes me cry every time. Supernatural, Season 15, episode 17 “Unity” (2020; … Continue reading
Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television
Tagged Bill Murray, Bong Joon-Ho, comedy, documentary, drama, Dylan Thomas, England, Germany, Italy, Romania, Russia, sci-fi, South Korea, Spike Lee, sports movies, Supernatural, Wales, war, X-Files
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R.I.P. Chuck Yeager
I’ll miss his laconic-toned Twitter feed. I loved when he would answer questions. Yeager’s signature laconic tone is what so struck author Tom Wolfe, inspiring Wolfe to write The Right Stuff. There’s a whole chapter about what Yeager’s voice sounded … Continue reading