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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

Friday, February 12, 2021

Special effects win out over all else in Nicholas Ashe Bateman's THE WANTING MARE

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According to the press release about this new film, "an intimate, dramatic fantasy epic written and directed by renowned digital artist...
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Noah Hutton's just-barely sci-fi film, LAPSIS, makes smart, serious fun of Capitalism, Comcast, Amazon, Apple and more....

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Imagine, I don't know, maybe a year or two ahead, with Covid and its permutations at least semi-controlled; a newer, nastier gig economy...
Tuesday, February 9, 2021

The threesome, updated, in Svetlana Cvetko's pretty-but-vapid SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT

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Some very nice black-and-white cinematography makes SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT -- the story of two guys and a girl who fall in lust/love/life les...
Sunday, February 7, 2021

Senior same-sex love in Hong Kong: Ray Leung's quiet study of character and culture, TWILIGHT'S KISS

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Having just seen a French film detailing senior lesbian love and the damages of the closet, here comes another that covers gay seniors in Ho...
Friday, February 5, 2021

THE MIMIC -- Thomas F. Mazziotti's smart little ode to identity, grief, friendship, sociopaths and more -- opens in theaters and via VOD

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While it may not be quite as smart, or even as deep, as it thinks it is, THE MIMIC -- the new film written and directed by Thomas F. Mazzio...
Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Tip-top acting anchors Filippo Meneghetti's seniors-in-the-closet melodrama, TWO OF US

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Here's a subject you don't see tackled all that often at the movies: The fear of coming out to your family regarding your sexual pre...
Monday, February 1, 2021

Chad Hartigan/Mattson Tomlin's Alzheimer's-like pandemic love story, LITTLE FISH, opens

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Initially the specifics of "forgetting" -- the pandemic that grounds and provides the plot of LITTLE FISH -- are so detailed and ...
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