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Now Playing — Boston Strangler

March 20, 2023 Dan Seeger

In the summer of 1962, Boston newspapers started printing stories about a series of seemingly connected murders in the city. The victims were found strangled to death in their apartments. After trying out a few other monikers for the killer, … Continue reading Now Playing — Boston Strangler

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Outside Reading — The Balcony Is Closed edition

March 18, 2023 Dan Seeger

Critic, Critique Thyself by A.O. Scott I think A.O. Scott is a good film critic. I also think he’s great at writing about being a film critic. Upon the announcement that he’s stepping down from the co-lead position assessing the … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Balcony Is Closed edition

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The Art of the Sell — Dirty Rotten Scoundrels teaser trailer

March 14, 2023 Dan Seeger

These posts celebrate the movie trailers, movie posters, commercials, print ads, and other promotional material that stand as their own works of art. I’m sometimes nostalgic for the era when I could be surprised by a trailer the first time … Continue reading The Art of the Sell — Dirty Rotten Scoundrels teaser trailer

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Everything Everywhere All the Oscars

March 13, 2023 Dan Seeger

The last time the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences asked Harrison Ford to present the award for Best Picture, they were clearly confident that the Steven Spielberg–director war picture Saving Private Ryan was bound for victory, and it … Continue reading Everything Everywhere All the Oscars

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Twenty Performances, or Gach rud i ngach áit go léir ag an am céanna

March 9, 2023 Dan Seeger

Having completed the process of sharing my own humble views on the top ten movies of the most recent cinematic year, there’s one more bit of business that Coffee for Two tradition dictates before Hollywood hands out shiny prizes on … Continue reading Twenty Performances, or Gach rud i ngach áit go léir ag an am céanna

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Top Ten Movies of 2022 — Number One

March 8, 2023 Dan Seeger

Calum (Paul Mescal) is on holiday with his tween daughter, Sophie (Frankie Corio). It’s clear that the relationship between Sophie’s parents is over in a way that is somewhere between fraught and sensitive, and this trip to Turkey has a … Continue reading Top Ten Movies of 2022 — Number One

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Top Ten Movies of 2022 — Number Two

March 7, 2023 Dan Seeger

There is so much happening in Everything Everywhere All at Once that the premise that partnered filmmakers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert might ever make another feature together almost defies belief. What ideas, themes, gags, and sparks of narrative invention … Continue reading Top Ten Movies of 2022 — Number Two

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The Unwatchables — Blonde

March 6, 2023March 7, 2023 Dan Seeger

Perhaps the blame starts with Joyce Carol Oates. The prolific author of soullessly precise prose wrote the engine block–sized novel that writer director Andrew Dominik adapted into the film Blonde. Oates’s book of the same name is a fictionalized telling … Continue reading The Unwatchables — Blonde

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Outside Reading — Bottom Dollar

March 4, 2023 Dan Seeger

As Dollar Stores Proliferate, Some Communities Say No by Michael Corkery Reporting for The New York Times, Michael Corkery writes about local governments rejecting the incursion of predatory discount shops that underpay employees and strategically drain the local economy, by … Continue reading Outside Reading — Bottom Dollar

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Top Ten Movies of 2022 — Number Three

March 2, 2023 Dan Seeger

I don’t think it’s mere happenstance that the simplest and gentlest of Martin McDonagh’s four feature films is also far and away his best. I’ll admit that letting the descriptor “gentle” anywhere near The Banshees of Inisherin seems like a … Continue reading Top Ten Movies of 2022 — Number Three

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