Worth Watching
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Pieces of Her
Pieces of Her First episode Mar. 4, 2022 Produced by Toni Collette Created by Charlotte Stoudt Based on the 2018 novel by Karin Slaughter Starring Toni Collette, Bella Heathcote, and Omari Hardwick Available…
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Sound of Metal
Sound of Metal Released in theaters Nov. 20, 2020 Directed by Marius Marder Starring Riz Ahmed and Olivia Cooke Available on Amazon Prime I came across this movie while surfing last week. I recognized the…
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Drive My Car
Drive My Car Released Nov. 24, 2021 Co-written and directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi Primarily based on Haruki Murakami’s short story of the same name Starring Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura, and Reika Kirishima…
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Margin Call — April 22, 2022
Margin Call Release date (US): Oct. 21, 2011 Written and directed by J.C. Chandor Starring Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Mary McDonnell, Demi Moore, and…
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King Richard
King Richard Release date: Nov. 19, 2021 Directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green Starring Will Smith, Aunjanue Ellis, John Bernthal, and Saniyya Sidney Currently available to rent or buy on various streaming…
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West Side Story
West Side Story Release date: Dec. 10, 2021 Directed by Steven Spielberg Starring Ansel Elgort, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Mike Faist, Rita Moreno, Rachel Zegler Currently available on Disney+ and HBO Max…
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Licorice Pizza
Licorice Pizza Release date: Nov. 26, 2021 Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Starring Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman Currently available to rent or buy on various streaming services Licorice Pizza is another…
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Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane Release date: 1941 Directed by Orson Welles Starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, and Agnes Moorehead Available on several streaming services, including Netflix and Amazon Prime…
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Kill Your Darlings
Kill Your Darlings Release date: Oct. 16, 2013 Directed by John Krokidas Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHann, Elizabeth Olsen, Jack Huston, Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Ben Foster Available on…
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Cold War
Cold War Released in the US Dec. 21, 2018 Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski Starring Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn, and Jeanne Balibar Streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime I…
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Why CODA Transcends Its Coming-Of-Age Formula
CODA Released Aug. 13, 2021 Directed by Sian Heder Starring Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, and Eugenio Derbez Currently streaming on Apple TV+ Whenever K says that she’s read a good review about a movie, I get…
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Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan
Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan Written by Olivier Megaton and Brice Lambert Directed by Oliver Megaton Season 1 released in 2021 - Available on Netflix An interesting look at dissociative…
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Hidden Gems From 2021 Worth Discovering Now
Potentially Great 2021 Movies to Watch in 2022 One of my New Year’s Resolutions for 2022 was to be more selective in the movies I watch. I want to watch only really, really good ones. I don’t want to spend the…
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Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley (1947) Available on several streaming services Directed by Edmund Goulding Starring Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, and Helen Walker Genre: There is a sense of mystery to the way…
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The Hand of God
The Hand of God Written, directed, & produced by Paolo Sorrentino Available on Netflix Starring Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo, and Teresa Saponangelo MM recommended it to me. He said he selected it because the…
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The Alpinist
The Alpinist (2021) A documentary by Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen Available to buy/rent on several streaming services I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. (I wrote about it here.) And I’m proud that I did. But I’m…
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Blade Runner
Blade Runner (1982) Based on the book by Phillip K. Dick Available to buy/rent on several streaming services Directed by Ridley Scott Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young A few weeks ago, I…
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Shtisel, Seasons 3 & 4
Shtisel, Seasons 3 & 4 Available on Netflix Created and written by Ori Elon and Yehonatan Indursky Starring Doval’e Glickman, Michael Aloni, and Neta Riskin I recommended this TV drama in April. At the time, I…
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Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now Originally released in 1979 Now available on various streaming services, including Netflix and Amazon Prime Directed by Francis Ford Coppola Starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, and Martin…
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Bright Star
Bright Star Initially released in 2009 Now available on various streaming services, including Netflix and Amazon Prime Directed by Jane Campion Starring Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider, and Kerry…
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Dream/Killer
Dream/Killer Initially released May 4, 2015 Now available on various streaming services, including Netflix and Amazon Prime Directed by Andrew Jenks Starring Bill Ferguson, Leslie Ferguson, Ryan Ferguson…
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Erin Brockovich
Erin Brockovich Released March 17, 2000 Available on Amazon Prime and other streaming services Directed by Steven Soderbergh Starring Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart It had been 20 years since I…
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Kill The Messenger
Kill The Messenger Released October 9, 2014 Available on multiple streaming services Directed by Michael Cuesta Starring Jeremy Renner, Robert Patrick, Jena Sims A gripping political/crime drama based on the…
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Clickbait
Clickbait (2021) Available on Netflix Created by Tony Ayres & Christian WhiteStarring Zoe Kazan, Betty Gabriel, and Adrian Grenier There are so many good things – even great things – to watch on screen these…
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1960s Movies Redux: 14 Reportedly Great Ones I Missed
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) Directed by Alain Resnais Starring Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff Plot: In this mindbender of a romantic French drama, set in a picturesque château, a man, “X”…
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Respect
Respect Released August 13, 2021 Available in theaters and on multiple streaming services Directed by Liesl Tommy Starring Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, and Marlon Wayans K decided we would eat at home…
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Best Films of the 1960s
In no particular order… The Graduate (1967) Directed by Mike Nichols Starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross Plot: Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), a recent college graduate with no plans for…
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Halston (2021)
Halston (2021) Available on Netflix Starring Ewan McGregor, Bill Pullman, Rebecca Dayan, and Krysta Rodriguez Halston is a limited-series Netflix production about the life and death of Roy Halston Frowick…
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Oslo
Oslo (2021) Available on HBO Directed by Bartlett Sher Starring Andrew Scott, Ruth Wilson, and Jeff Wilbusch Oslo is the story of negotiations that took place in Norway in 1993 between Israel and the…
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Time
Time (2020) Available on Amazon Prime Produced and directed by Garrett Bradley Featuring Sibil Fox Richardson and Robert Richardson Time, an Academy Award-nominated documentary, is the story of Sibil Fox…
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The Best of Enemies
The Best of Enemies (2019) Available on Amazon Prime and Netflix Written and directed by Robin Bissell Starring Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell In the last few years, Hollywood has been frantically putting…
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Collective (2020)
Collective (2020) Available on Netflix and Prime Video Directed, written, and produced by Alexander Nanau Starring Catalin Tolontan, Camelia Roiu, and Tedy Ursuleanu Collective is a documentary about corporate…
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What It’s Like to Be a Transgender Dad
Here’s a TED Talk about the difficulties of being a transgender dad. It’s given by a very likable person with a problem that can’t be solved. He wants the world to accept his “authentic self” – as a…
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The 12th Man (2018)
The 12th Man (2018) Available on Prime Video Directed by Harald Zwart Starring Thomas Gullestad, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and Mads Sjogard Pettersen Set during the Nazi occupation of Norway during WWII, a team of…
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Operation Finale
Operation Finale (2018) on Netflix Directed by Chris Weitz Starring Ben Kingsley, Oscar Isaac, and Lior Raz Operation Finale – considered to be a remake of the 1979 film The House on Garibaldi Street – is…
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Better Days
Better Days (2019) Directed by Derek Kwok-Cheung Tsang Starring Zhou Dongyu and Jackson Yee K and I watched Better Days. It was one of the foreign movies on her list of Oscar nominations. From the get-go, I…
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Trapped: A Gripping Short Film Worth Your Time
“Trapped” – a good short film.
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Medieval Craftsmanship Reveals Hidden Artistic Brilliance
Medieval art bores you. I get that. But this slightly boring tour of the history and the craft of two astonishingly detailed medieval pieces will give you an idea about how amazing these pieces often are.
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Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) Starring Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield I watched Judas and the Black Messiah last night. I wasn’t going to. Something about the title repelled me. I don’t know what I…
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Shtisel (Season 3 launched March 25 on Netflix)
Shtisel (Season 3 launched March 25 on Netflix) Created and written by Ori Elon and Yehonatan Indursky Starring Doval’e Glickman, Michael Aloni, and Neta Riskin I thought Shtisel was gone for good, but when…
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Another Round
Another Round (2020) Directed by Thomas Vinterberg Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Magnus Millang, Lars Ranthe, and Thomas Bo Larsen Another Round is a Danish movie about four middle-aged school teachers who decide…
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Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare in Love (1998) Directed by John Madden Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Judi Dench, and Geoffrey Rush As I said above, Hamnet is, a part, an imaginary account of how Shakespeare came to…
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Pillow Talk (1959)
Pillow Talk (1959) Directed by Michael Gordon Starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day Pillow Talk was a Valentine’s Day suggestion by K. Neither of us had ever seen it. On the one hand, it’s an old-fashioned…
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Martial Arts for Women
I’ve been training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for about 23 years. I’ve earned a black belt and have won several regional and national contests (for my age group), and I came in third in the 2016 IBJJF World Master…
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Delhi Crime
Delhi Crime (2019) Directed by Richie Mehta Starring Shefali Shah, Rajesh Tailang, and Rasika Dugal Available on Netflix I’ve been to India a half dozen times – for business and pleasure -- and have nothing…
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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, aka Borat 2 (2020) Directed by Jason Woliner Starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Maria Bakalova Available on Amazon Prime Video I loved Sacha Baron Cohen’s Ali G character since I first…
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A Man Called Ove
A Man Called Ove (2015) Directed by Hannes Holm Starring Rolf Lassgård, Bahar Pars, Ida Engvoll, and Filip Berg A Man Called Ove. It sounded familiar. Had I seen it? Did I read the book? I thought it might be…
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Goodfellas (1990) Remains Masterfully Crafted Despite Its Simplicity
Goodfellas (1990) Directed by Martin Scorsese Starring Ray Liotta, Robert DeNiro, and Joe Pesci I watched Goodfellas last night. I wasn’t sure if I was going to like it. I saw it first when it came out in 1990…
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Are we in control of our own decisions?
This is a very good TED Talk about decision making by Dan Ariely, Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University, that should be helpful to both consumers and marketers. (I’ve been…
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Anatomy of a Murder
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) Directed by Otto Preminger Starring James Stewart, Lee Remick, and Ben Gazzara Anatomy of a Murder was shot in black and white – mostly indoor scenes – and directed by Otto Preminger…
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