Outside Reading — Blue Cheese edition

February 24, 2024 Dan Seeger

This week featuring: Christina Lieffring on Wisconsin Democrats, Delaney Tarr on U.S. gun violence, and Sam Adams on one of the great performances of 2023. Continue reading Outside Reading — Blue Cheese edition

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Top Ten Movies of 2023 — Number Five

February 22, 2024 Dan Seeger

Alexander Payne has too strong of a filmography to declare that The Holdovers is his best work, but the comedy might be the most caustically concentrated realization of his career-long treatise on the way loneliness delivers a pile driver to … Continue reading Top Ten Movies of 2023 — Number Five

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Then Playing — Dumb Money; The Good Guys and the Bad Guys; Eileen

February 21, 2024 Dan Seeger

Short reviews of films by Craig Gillespie, Burt Kennedy, and William Oldroyd. Continue reading Then Playing — Dumb Money; The Good Guys and the Bad Guys; Eileen

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Top Ten Movies of 2023 — Number Six

February 20, 2024 Dan Seeger

In director Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, it doesn’t matter if a crime has been committed. I suppose there are moviegoers who would disagree with that assertion. After being conditioned by a host of heated courtroom thrillers where a … Continue reading Top Ten Movies of 2023 — Number Six

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Then Playing — Diner; Leave the World Behind; Pickup

February 15, 2024 Dan Seeger

Barry Levinson’s debut, Sam Esmail’s return to film after a run of strong TV, and a tough 50s drama from Czech auteur Hugo Haas. Continue reading Then Playing — Diner; Leave the World Behind; Pickup

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