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Feature Film Review While resuming her life after a major loss, Bridget Jones is rescued by young Roxster from a tree on Parliament Hill, and she’s soon Mad About the Boy

Feature Film Review I’m Still Here, says the expression on Eunice Paiva’s defiant face after decades of fighting for rights, for justice and for her family

Commentary Flashback 28 Feburary 2012 So who was that guy in the powder blue suit in the front row and whatever happened to Jack Nicholson anyway?

Review Flashback 1985 Peter Timm’s Meier

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Review Flashback 1996 Seth Michael Donsky’s Twisted

Documentary Film Review There is no such thing as a Blue Road, Ernie Gébler incorrectly insists to his novelist wife, unaware of the nature of his role in The Edna O’Brien Story

Feature Film Review Wealthy industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren engages immigrant architect László Tóth to design a lavish community center in The Brutalist architectural style

My Personal Ranking of
Films Released in the Year 2024
(that I have seen and reviewed so far)

Review Encore 4k restoration now playing in the UK: Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Review Encore 5-year anniversary IMAX re-release in the US: Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite

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The Fortnight Extended: the 2024 selection on international tour!

Short Film Review Doing a favor for his brother Jeremy, in need of a place to stay, Brian is mentally unprepared for the emotional consequences of inviting his sibling to Enter the Room

Review Encore 4K restoration now playing in the UK: Billy Wilder’s The Apartment

Alphabetical Index of My Personal Eulogies

Feature Film Review Even people close to young Bob Dylan find him, to quote a memorable line from one of his songs, A Complete Unknown

Oscar Predictions Quick, before I have too much time to overthink it, here are my hurriedly put together and not very well thought out annual predictions of the 2025 Academy Award winners (for movies released in 2024)

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Feature Film Review You’re my Babygirl, says Samuel, a new intern at the robotics company Tensile, to Romy Mathis, its CEO

Feature Film Review No one mourns the Wicked, sings Glinda the Good as her thoughts turn back years earlier when she first met Elphaba Thropp

Feature Film Review After the Pope’s death, it falls to Thomas Lawrence, as Dean of the College of Cardinals, to oversee the Conclave that will elect the papal successor

Feature Film Review Drug cartel boss Juan ‘Manitas’ Del Monte enlists the aid of attorney Rita Mora Castro in his plan to become a woman called Emilia Pérez

Feature Film Review Because of the Russian she learned from her grandmother, Anora ‘Ani’ Mikheeva is introduced by her boss at an upscale New York strip club to Ivan ‘Vanya’ Zakharov, a wealthy oligarch’s son

Latest Commentary Also for the record, what she said about Ben Affleck in bed was uncalled for—and that dig at Joker 2 was pretty mean too

Short Film Review Don’t tell anyone I was here, a mysterious man cautions Aziel Baxter, there’s too many Spiders in the Walls

Short Film Review When Seán tells his parents back home, I Found a Place in Dublin, it is nothing like they (or he) expected

Total Number of Feature Films, Documentaries and Shorts Reviewed to Date: 3,066