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NOTTURNO (Gianfranco Rosi 2020) NOTTURNO Opens Today, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, in Virtual Theaters & Jan. 29, 2021 On Demand Of all the...

Donald Gump has left Washington. Joe and Jill went up the Hill To start to heal the Nation. Trump the Clown stepped way Down To face...

MTV DOCUMENTARY FILMS TO OFFER ACCLAIMED DOC FREE VIRTUALLY VIA ART HOUSE CINEMAS ACROSS THE COUNTRY ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 23rd. FIRST OF ITS KIND...

One out of three ain't bad. Notice what Jonathan Rosenbaum says in the note on FOXTROT. I too am asked to make an annual best list before I have...

Just came upon this congenial note from the admirable Jonathan Rosenbaum: I now feel I might have done without made much gentler the concluding...

Donald has been impeached more times than he’s been elected. He hasn’t said a peep about the five who died. All he’s done is hold a pity party...

Donald Trump has been impeached for the second time, six days before he’s out the door... Wow. You can’t find a bigger fuck-up than the Donald....

Donald Trump’s obliviousness proves to me that he’s just an actor. There had better be consequences for these rioters and Trump himself. If there...

Trump also was permanently banned from Twitter for inciting violence. And what did Trump do? He used Rush Limbaugh’s account! Which has also been...

So Trump is basically a felon right now. He incited an insurrection/riot that resulted in 5 deaths. Rudy Giuliani is also a felon with his “trial...

1939 is said to have been the best year in the history of film. I have been sharing my on-going, perrennially revised cannon for decades now, and I...

Trump has completed his destruction of the GOP. The Georgia Senate runoff election is over, and those 2 seats went to Democrats. Mitch the Bitch is...

JERRY ROTHWELL: THE REASON I JUMP (2020) JIM FUJIWARA AS THE YOUNG NAOKI HIGASHIDA IN THE REASON I JUMP A glimpse for neurotypicals at what...

KEITH THOMAS: THE VGIL (2019) STILL FROM THE VIGIL A Jewish horror film Steeped in ancient Jewish lore and demonology, THE VIGIL is...

GILLIAN WALLACE HORVAT: I BLAME SOCIETY (2020) GILLIAN WALLACE HORVAT IN I BLAME SOCIETY Killer debut An ultra-indie feature debut by...

Even though I’m not a “political activist” per se, it is a tenet. I advocate political activism. My Rush Limbaugh thread is just that, a...

Joe Morgenstern's review of the movie from the WSJ:

Yes, you are right. And here's what he did before dying at 58 of a heart attack. Wikipedia "Charles Dickens":: Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left...

Thanks for the review. I’ve never read David Copperfield, and thanks for letting me know it’s autobiographical. Dickens was a newspaperman I heard,...

So Trump signs the COVID-19 relief bill after farting around and golfing? Did he actually sign into law a $2000 per home relief check? Which is...

THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD (Armando Iannucci 2019) Armando Iannucci (THE THICK OF IT, THE DEATH OF STALIN) has done a multi-racial,...

KYLE AND MIKE TALK TO JUDD COVINO & MARVIN TALKING TO JUDD APATOW ON ZOOM I'd like to call people's attention to a great Zoom conversation,...

THE HALF OF IT (Alice Wu 2020). A 15-years-later followup to Wu's debut film, SAVING FACE, it's a Cyrano story set at in high school in a remote...

KAJILLIONAIRE (Miranda July 2020). On ten best lists so I wanted to see it. A grifter family trio meets a cheery Hispanic woman on a plane and the...