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Scott R. Larson




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The Latest Commentary: It served thousands looking a better life in America—and a film cast and crew making a nostalgic visit home

My personal ranking of films released in the year 2017 (that I have seen and reviewed so far)

My second novel The Three Towers of Afranor is now available worldwide in paperback and digital formats! For more info click here to read my book blog!

Click here to read a free sample of the beginning of The Three Towers of Afranor

The Ten Latest Feature Film Reviews…

• One having been away to the Crusades for twenty years and the other having retired to an abbey, Robin and Marian reunite in Sherwood Forest in the autumn of their lives

• A famous Hollywood movie star finds that a royal marriage is not so different from committing to a film role when she becomes Princess Grace of Monaco

• Two (2) decades after Mark Renton absconded with his friends’ ill-gotten money, none of them have managed to escape a habit that makes no more sense than the idle hobby of Trainspotting

• A mother/daughter Ecuadorian holiday turns into a test of survival when Linda and Emily Middleton are Snatched and held for ransom by Colombian kidnappers

• Writer Dalton Trumbo eventually outlasts the Hollywood blacklist by using fronts to keep his own name off his award-winning screenplays

• In an essay titled Handsome Devil, sixteen-year-old Ned recounts his most painfully regrettable act, which betrayed his only friend at a rugby-mad boarding school

• Sent away under a dark cloud as a child from her backwater Australian town, The Dressmaker Tilly Dunnage returns to repair her relationship with her mother and to settle old scores

• Two brothers, ages 8 and 6, are determined to produce and market their own comic book title starring a hero called M.r Pickpocket

• In July in Paris When It Sizzles, Hollywood writer Richard Benson attempts to finish a screenplay for producer Alexander Meyerheim with the game assistance of typist Gabrielle Simpson

• In the course of an interview with a journalist at Hyannisport, Massachusetts, Jackie Kennedy relives her husband’s assassination, his funeral and the aftermath

The Three Latest Short Film Reviews…

• Doing his best to take comfort from or find meaning in his Bible and his religion, William in his own way confronts what it means To Be Alone

• After an extended period away from the dating scene, Jack attempts to get back in by visiting his local Undatement Center

• Having offered to take on young comedian Billy, a hard-edged talent agent explains to him how he subjects those who cross him to what he calls Psychic Murder

Commentary Flashback…

11 November 2004: One sang and danced and tangled with J.R. Ewing; the other bit and got bitten and tangled with Barnabas Collins

Selected Past Reviews…

Moonlight: Now on DVD in the UK

Flashback to 1985: Lawrence Kasdan’s Silverado

Flashback to 1996: Peter Duncan’s Children of the Revolution

Other Stuff…

My Inbox: 49th Directors’ Fortnight: our sponsors’ prizes

Alphabetical Index of My Personal Eulogies

My List of Personal Eyewitness Accounts of Public Interviews of Various Movie People

Web Site Statistics for May


Total Number of Feature Films, Documentaries and Shorts Reviewed to Date: 2,432