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Movie criticism (mostly foreign films, documentaries and independents: big Hollywood product hardly needs more marketing), very occasional interviews from James van Maanen, now 80 years old, who began his late-career movie reviewing for GreenCine, then took the big blog step over a decade ago. He covers new movies, video releases, and occasional streaming choices. You can reach him at JamesvanMaanen@gmail.com

Sunday, October 18, 2020

A rare and much appreciated good B-movie: Christy/Brown/Sizemore's BLUE RIDGE

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Surprisingly well-written and -acted, and directed with enough verve and intelligence to keep viewers watching, BLUE RIDGE turns out to be ...
Friday, October 16, 2020

In Aaron's Wolf's TAR, an L.A. landmark is fodder for some foolish, would-be horror

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The idea of using Los Angeles' semi-famous La Brea Tar Pits as the sort-of setting and theme for a modern monster movie sounds promisin...
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

South Korean mystery FORGOTTEN proves a twisty, fascinating and moving "must-see"

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Got to hand it to Netflix , which keeps coming up with terrific movies (along with plenty of duds), some of which you will have never heard....
Monday, October 12, 2020

Cooper Raiff's new indie, SHITHOUSE, offers college life from the view of the shy outsider

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  As has been duly noted elsewhere, SHITHOUSE -- the movie named for a college fraternity that hosts particularly popular parties -- deals ...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

Boy, do we need it now! Hans Pool's BELLINGCAT: TRUTH IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD

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In this time when dictators everywhere from Russia, China, Brazil and the Philippines to Eastern Europe (and of course, right here in the US...
Thursday, October 8, 2020

A Russian emigrant diddles around in France: Claude Chamis' THE WANDERINGS OF IVAN

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That sometimes fine line between art and pomposity gets a real workout in the latest offering from NQV , the 2018 film from French filmmaker...
Tuesday, October 6, 2020

At virtual Film Forum: Art, justice and family coalesce in Catherine Gund's doc, AGGIE

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Having kept myself a deliberate outsider to both the appreciation of and the world of contemporary art, TrustMovies has heard the name Agne...
Sunday, October 4, 2020

A tasty documentary is turned inside out in Molly Dworsky/Dave Newberg/Zachary Capp's THE RINGMASTER

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Who exactly is THE RINGMASTER of this eponymously titled new documentary? Seems to TrustMovies that there are actually four of them -- th...
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