Tag: cinema
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1986 Retrospective: STAND BY ME
This blog, is the first in what I hope is to be a year long look at films from 1986. Why 1986? Both movies from that year, and I, are celebrating forty tears of life, and celluloid glory. The entries, like others I blog about, will be based on what I am able to see…
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A MAGNIFICENT LIFE (2025)
STORYLINE: In 1955, 60-year-old Marcel Pagnol is a well-known and acclaimed playwright and filmmaker. When the editor-in-chief of ELLE magazine commissions a weekly column about Pagnol’s childhood, he sees this as a great opportunity to go back to his artistic roots: writing. Realizing his memory is failing him and deeply affected by the disappointing results…
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THE RUNNING MAN (2025)
STORYLINE: A man joins a game show in which contestants, allowed to go anywhere in the world, are pursued by “hunters” hired to kill them. (IMDb) Over the years director Edgar Wright has directed a wide variety of feature films. His cornetto trilogy features a horror comedy (Shaun of the Dead, 2004), an…
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