Top End Wedding (Blair, 2019)
My fear going into Top End Wedding was that it would be My Big Fat Greek Aboriginal Wedding or Crazy Non-Rich Non Asians. What I got was a pleasant surprise.… Continue reading "Top End Wedding (Blair, 2019)"
Category: Reviews
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Birds of Prey (Yan, 2020)
My problem going into Birds of Prey was one the film was perhaps aware of but still never solved: Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) is a mess of contradictions. She is… Continue reading "Birds of Prey (Yan, 2020)"
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Dolittle (Gaghan, 2020)
I happened to screen Dolittle on the same morning I got a newsletter update from a non-profit about the Australian wildfires. I am told that over one billion animals have… Continue reading "Dolittle (Gaghan, 2020)"
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Cats (Hooper, 2019)
There is an early episode of The Simpsons, oft-quoted in the Morefield household, in which Mr. Burns hires MLB All-Stars to play as ringers on the corporate softball team and… Continue reading "Cats (Hooper, 2019)"
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Richard Jewell (Eastwood, 2019)
For the first fifteen minutes or so, I worried that Richard Jewell was going to be little more than director Clint Eastwood caricaturizing law-enforcement and the media in some sort… Continue reading "Richard Jewell (Eastwood, 2019)"
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63 Up (Apted, 2019)
I approached 63 Up with two metanarratives about the series wrestling to frame my experience. The first narrative — and seemingly the more common one based on early reviews —… Continue reading "63 Up (Apted, 2019)"
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Charlie’s Angels (Banks, 2019)
As I write this, the newest entry of Charlie’s Angels has one hundred and eighteen (118) reviews aggregated at the website Rotten Tomatoes. Soon to be one hundred and nineteen.… Continue reading "Charlie’s Angels (Banks, 2019)"
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Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable (Lieber, 2018)
Unstoppable, a documentary sharing professional surfer Bethany Hamilton’s journey, left me mesmerized, not only by her talent but by her incredible determination to succeed. This beautifully filmed documentary shares Hamilton’s… Continue reading "Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable (Lieber, 2018)"
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Ford v Ferrari (Mangold, 2019)
I spent just over half of Ford v Ferrari comparing the film to the inferior, cliché-ridden version of itself that I assumed going in that it would be. Eventually, I… Continue reading "Ford v Ferrari (Mangold, 2019)"
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The Report — Filmfest 919
There is a painful laugh-out-loud moment near the end of The Report, Scott Z. Burns’s docudrama about the Senate Oversight Committee’s attempts to investigate the CIA’s use of torture in… Continue reading "The Report — Filmfest 919"