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

Commentary Flashback 14 May 2012 It’s only May, and already it’s been a great summer for kids who were comic book and television fans in the 1960s

Review Flashback 1985 Giuseppe Bertolucci’s Secrets Secrets

Review Flashback 1996 Ridley Scott’s White Squall

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

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

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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)

Alphabetical Index of My Personal Eulogies

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

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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

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

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

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

Total Number of Feature Films, Documentaries and Shorts Reviewed to Date: 3,071