drama
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The World To Come : (may be as bleak as this one)
Set in 1856 this slow-burning drama is mostly as bleak as the wild Frontier it is set in. It opens with a throughly depressed Abigail (Katherine Waterson) reading aloud in voiceover . “This morning, ice in our bedroom for the first time all winter,” and you really feel the cold as she speaks. She…
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Falling : Viggo Mortensen’s finely nuanced directing/writing debut
Watching a third movie that deals with dementia in as many weeks is kind of a tough call (especially for a critic edging on in years). First Sir Anthony Hopkins played a cantankerous old man who never let up on his sainted daughter Olivia Colman in The Father. Then competing with them for Best…
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Haymaker ! It was probably a good idea on paper
It’s a brave man who steps out from behind the camera and takes control of his own movie. That’s exactly what visual effects artist Nick Sasso did when he decided to write, direct, edit and also star in Haymaker his very first feature. Sasso needs to be applauded for both his effort and determination…
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The One You Feed
Sometime you make bad choices in life. Mine was choosing ‘The One You Feed’ movie to be the very first movie I watched in 2021. Coming out of possibly the worst year ever, watching such a depressing downer of a film was a decision I soon regretted. It’s the work of Drew Harwood who…
