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Now Playing — Molly’s Game

January 8, 2018 Dan Seeger

Molly’s Game, the feature directorial debut of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin makes a compelling case for his previous practice of turning his material over to others to shepherd it to the screen. More than most, Sorkin had the benefit … Continue reading Now Playing — Molly’s Game

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Playing Catch-Up — The Rules of the Game; Beatriz at Dinner; Miss Sloane

January 4, 2018 Dan Seeger

The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939). Considered one of unassailable greats of all cinema (or at least a foundational classic that demonstrated the way the spirited form could be applied to weighty social subjects), Jean Renoir’s farcical examination … Continue reading Playing Catch-Up — The Rules of the Game; Beatriz at Dinner; Miss Sloane

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Now Playing — Call Me By Your Name

January 3, 2018 Dan Seeger

In the early nineteen-eighties, a 17-year-old named Elio (Timothée Chalamet) is, by many measures, enjoying a charmed life. He spends summers in a family house in Italy, where his professor father (Michael Stuhlbarg) goes to be closer to a recent … Continue reading Now Playing — Call Me By Your Name

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Bad Movie Night — Geostorm/The Snowman

January 2, 2018 Dan Seeger

There are, of course, a multitude of ways to commemorate the ending of a calendar year, from earnest list-making to drunken revelry in the frigid public square. In our household, we decided to revive a beloved practice to finish off … Continue reading Bad Movie Night — Geostorm/The Snowman

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Playing Catch-Up — Storm Warning; Pickpocket; Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

December 28, 2017December 28, 2017 Dan Seeger

Storm Warning (Stuart Heisler, 1951). This drama about the power of the Ku Klux Klan in a small U.S. town plays as a odd hybrid of courtroom potboiler and lurid thriller. A woman named Marsha Mitchell (Ginger Rogers) is passing … Continue reading Playing Catch-Up — Storm Warning; Pickpocket; Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

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Now Playing — I, Tonya

December 26, 2017 Dan Seeger

Craig Gillespie’s Lars and the Real Girl is a small marvel of gracious, empathetic filmmaking. Centered on a lonely, withdrawn man who engages in a tender love affair with a life-size doll, the film is primed for harsh mockery. Instead, … Continue reading Now Playing — I, Tonya

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Now Playing — Star Wars: The Last Jedi

December 20, 2017December 17, 2019 Dan Seeger

It’s been a little more than forty years since simple letters in a crystal blue font first informed audiences they were about to see a story that happened in a distant galaxy quite some time earlier. Conceived and directed by … Continue reading Now Playing — Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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Now Playing — The Shape of Water

December 18, 2017 Dan Seeger

There is a lot to Guillermo del Toro’s filmmaking that I admire. But the prime feat may be the way he can bend just about any story to his jovially macabre sensibilities. There are times when the manipulation of the narrative … Continue reading Now Playing — The Shape of Water

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Now Playing — The Disaster Artist

December 13, 2017 Dan Seeger

The Disaster Artist would have been easy to structure as a prolonged dumb joke. It would have been simpler to structure it as a mean joke, delivering judgmental comic blows against the misguided dreamers that move through it’s lifted-from-real-life plot. … Continue reading Now Playing — The Disaster Artist

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Now Playing — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

November 30, 2017 Dan Seeger

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, the new film by Martin McDonagh, begins on the outskirts of a small, Midwestern town. A woman named Mildred (France McDormand) notices a trio of dilapidated billboards lined up in a satisfying grouping. She has … Continue reading Now Playing — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

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