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Commentary Flashback 5 September 2012 If somehow you have managed to go through life without ever seeing a movie that involved time travel, have I got a list for you

Review Flashback 1986 John Hughes’s Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Review Flashback 1996 Scott Silver’s johns

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

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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

Latest Commentary When major film festivals are happening on a different continents without me, I take solace in remembering when I was a serious fool

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

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

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Short Films Review Call Me, After Dark, every night, implores Laurie during an otherworldly encounter with Chuck in an otherwise deserted coffee shop

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

Alphabetical Index of My Personal Eulogies

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

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

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

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’

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

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

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

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

Total Number of Feature Films, Documentaries and Shorts Reviewed to Date: 3,079