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Review Encore Re-released in the US: Rob Reiner’s This Is Spinal Tap

Commentary Flashback 27 November 2012 You may remember him mainly as a corrupt Texas oil baron or Jeannie’s master, but let us not forget that he had a movie career that included imaginative portraits of both Nixon and Clinton—and an evil blob!

Review Flashback 1986 Bigas Luna’s Anguish

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Review Flashback 1996 Yolande Zauberman’s Clubbed to Death

Feature Film Review After a life-changing experience, musician Chris Pinner releases The Ballad of Wallis Island under his own name rather than the one he is famous for

Review Encore Thirtieth anniversary 4K re-issue in the UK: Amy Heckerling’s Clueless

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Review Encore Fifty-year anniversary re-release everywhere: Steven Spielberg’s Jaws

Feature Film Review Having lost their home and their livelihood, Raynor and Moth Winn see no better option than to simply starting walking hundreds of miles on The Salt Path from Somerset to Dorset

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Feature Film Review Miles Morales, aka Spider-Man, travels Across the Spider-Verse to reunite with Gwen Stacy and to meet many other alter-egos

Feature Film Review The anti-superhero Deadpool gets his name when his pal Weasel tells him the bar’s betting patrons picked him as mostly likely to die

Alphabetical Index of My Personal Eulogies

Short Films Review Tony calls VIVA a cult, but Justin and Nicole believe it is the only way for the next generation to have a normal life

Feature Film Review On a Saturday Night in October 1975, a talented group of young writers and performers prepare to make television history

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Feature Film Review Of all The Bikeriders in the bar, Benny is the one who catches Kathy’s eye, and neither of their lives will ever be the same again

Short Film Review On the night of her rite of passage, 12-year-old Radha learns about life, death and what it really means to be a woman

Short Film Review In a primeval landscape, a solitary man confronts the emotions and consequences of his Rapacious nature

Feature Film Review The Burroughs, Callans and Zimmers routinely vacation together during each of The Four Seasons of the year

Review Encore Now on DVD in the US: Sean Baker’s Anora

Feature Film Review Come stay at My House in Umbria, offers Emily Delahunty to her fellow survivors of a tragedy aboard a train

Review Encore Now playing and streaming in the US: Pat Collins’s That They May Face the Rising Sun

Documentary Film Review Like his on-screen alter-ego, i.e. Super/Man, The Christopher Reeve Story is one of an ordinary person who, because of unusual circumstances, becomes something much more

Feature Film Review Struggling as a full-time carer for his mother, a Dublin man suddenly finds himself saddled with no fewer than Four Mothers over a stressful weekend

Total Number of Feature Films, Documentaries and Shorts Reviewed to Date: 3,086