Confession (ha): I had to make myself watch this movie, as I try to see all the Oscar nominated ones, though that doesn’t always happen. But a movie about the Catholic church and electing a new pope? Non-religious me just thought: zzzzz. But it turns out to be a sleek and sly little drama, as full of backstabbing and gossip and rumors and secrets and lies and scandals as any political race, because really, that’s kind of what it is,…
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Nosferatu 2024
My first film of 2025. If you’ve seen another Dracula film, particularly Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 version, you’ll be fairly familiar with this story, though the names have changed, as they were in the original 1922 silent version. Here, instead of Mina Harker, we have Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) who we first see as a young girl, weeping into the night and imploring someone to save her from her loneliness. Her entreaties summon…something, some creature or spirit, who envelops her and…
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A Real Pain 2024
Jesse Eisenberg wrote, directed and stars in this fine little film, along with Keiran Culkin, who he hand picked for this role after remembering Culkin’s audition for Adventureland many years before (he didn’t get that part, but he obviously left a big impression on Eisenberg.) Here, they play cousins: Eisenberg is David, a slightly neurotic, introverted husband and dad, who lives in NYC and sells digital ad space, a perhaps uninspiring job that pays well and suits him; Culkin is…
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