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

Commentary Flashback 14 June 2012 During the past fortnight we have lost a science fiction legend, three grand character actors and a former cook at my favorite restaurant in the whole world

Review Flashback 1985 Joel Schumacher’s St. Elmo’s Fire

Review Flashback 1996 Tony Scott’s The Fan

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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

Review Encore Re-released in the US: Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman

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

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Review Encore Re-released in the US: Lisa Cholodenko’s High Art

Short Film Review Look at you, Meggie, Such a Pretty Girl, Meg’s father Frank says to her, unknowingly echoing thoughts in his grandchild’s mind

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My Inbox:
The People’s Choice is back in 2025!

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Review Encore Now streaming in the US: Marc Marriott’s Tokyo Cowboy

Feature Film Review ‘Lee… I’m not Queer’ says Eugene telepathetically during an intense hallucination, adding ‘I’m disembodied’

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Alphabetical Index of My Personal Eulogies

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Feature Film Review The Pass that debut Champions League footballer Jason does not make to teammate Ade on the pitch in Bucharest will haunt both of them for many years to come

Short Film Review It turns out to be a Sloppy Sunday for pimp Skinny and his cronies when he pushes young Sweetheart too far

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Feature Film Review Last Summer Pierre’s son Théo came to live with him, his two young daughters and his wife Anne to whom the lad would become quite close

Review Encore 25th anniversary re-release in the UK: Steven Soderbergh’s Erin Brockovich

Latest Commentary Thank the God Emperor of Dune! Awards season is finally over!

Oscar Predictions The most unpredictable Oscars® in years? For me that’s every year… results of my annual predictions of the 2025 Academy Award winners (for movies released in 2024)

Review Encore Re-released in the UK: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen’s The Big Lebowski

Review Encore Now on DVD in the US: Nicolas Jack Davies’s Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird

Short Films Review A fateful accident in her husband’s gene-splicing lab transforms Megan Florentino’s life into a series of Hybrid Hazards – until an unexpected Revelation provides hope for a cure

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

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

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

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

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

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Total Number of Feature Films, Documentaries and Shorts Reviewed to Date: 3,074