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Call Me by Your Name 2017
When I first saw this film upon its release in 2017, I was deeply touched by its poignant coming of age plotline. Both Timothée Chalamet (who plays Elio) and Armie Hammer (who plays Oliver) deliver stellar performances—deeply engaged and achingly honest. The film’s cinematography captures a gorgeous Italian backdrop to a relationship that is at once intensely erotic and ultimately heartbreaking. Chalamet was nominated for an Oscar (the first of many nominations, I’m sure) and he utterly inhabits the raw…
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The Penguin 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I was very happy to have recently watched "The Batman" (2022) to prep for this series, since the events here are a sequel of sorts to that film.
Colin Farrell is absolutely unrecognizable in every way, while being superb in the title role. Far more a gangster or organized crime saga than anything one would classify as part of the 'superhero genre', this series is truly absorbing. I binged through the series, very impressed with the unfolding drama and complex…
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The Godfather 1972
As a standalone production, this grand Francis Ford Coppola film is in a class by itself. From its acting and cinematography to its music and carefully constructed plot, it is the best of its genre.
That said, there is NOTHING comparable to viewing "The Godfather Epic", a re-edited version that combines "The Godfather" and "The Godfather, Part 2" into a single narrative, chronologically rearranged, with the addition of more than 50 deleted or extended scenes that deepen the characterization and…
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The War of the Worlds 1953
I have always loved the 1953 version of this sci-fi classic. Some folks have complained about some of the "cheesy" special effects, compared to today's CGI techniques (though not all CGI techniques are created equal).
Nevertheless, if you're seeing wires holding up the Martian ships, it's because later prints of the film used Eastman Color to sharpen the images, making wires, which were not visible in the original three-strip Technicolor film, more apparent. They've corrected all this in later restorations.…
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