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movie of the moment. MaryAnn’s quick take: Come on down for a gen-u-ine American dystopia at the crossroads of end-of-empire and late-stage capitalism. Chloé Zhao’s outsider’s eye in Nomadland is hugely sympathetic but unhindered by knee-jerk patriotism. Read the review. Support independent film criticism with a monthly or annual MOVIES ON DVD/BLU/VOD US AND CANADA MaryAnn’s quick take: As credulous — or con-artist cheaty — as its demon-hunter protagonists, but lacking their charm. Worse, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It can’t even be bothered to justify and satisfy the procedural approach to its mystery.Read the review OSCAR BEST PICTURE WINNERS (ALPHABETICAL Oscar Best Picture winners (alphabetical) All About Eve (1950) All the King’s Men (1949) All Quiet on the Western Front (1929-30) Amadeus (1984) A Man for All Seasons (1966) American Beauty (1999) An American in Paris (1951) Annie Hall (1977) OSCAR NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY SHORTS 2021 (93RD ACADEMY Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts 2021 is streaming globally in virtual cinemas, which help support brick-and-mortar arthouses during the coronavirus pandemic. See the official site to purchase a ticket and watch online. (Also playing in some theaters in the US.) All the documentary shorts are also available to stream free (mostly) online; see review for links. OSCAR NOMINATED ANIMATED SHORTS 2021 (93RD ACADEMY AWARDS Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2021 (93rd Academy Awards) review. MaryAnn’s quick take: I don’t see how the astonishing “Opera,” by Erick Oh, doesn’t win the Oscar for Best Animated Short. This is a stupendous achievement, a cartoon clockwork depicting life, the universe, and everything. I don’t see how the astonishing “Opera DOCTOR WHO THING: YOUR NAME (OR ANY TEXT) IN GALLIFREYAN Gallifreyan isn’t a real language like Klingon is, though some fans are trying to make it so. One of them, artist Loren Sherman, has developed a guide to one fannishly developed form of Gallifreyan: at Sherman’s Planet, you’ll find primers for writing text, SPOILER ALERT: ABOUT THE ENDING OF SPRING spoiler alert: about the ending of Spring. by MaryAnn Johanson. Fri, Apr 03, 2015. 278 comments. Spring is the story of an ordinary, uninteresting young man who somehow — we never know how — convinces an amazing, extraordinary woman to fall in love with him. CAPERNAUM MOVIE REVIEW: A CHILD’S REAL-LIFE HORROR Harrowing and heartbreaking, a nightmare dystopia that could almost be a documentary. This tough but essential film slyly asks us to consider what we owe children, not just our own but the world’s. I n a courtroom in Beirut, 12-year-old Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) is suing his parents for the “crime” of having given birth to him. SPOILER ALERT: ABOUT THE ENDING OF THE GIFT spoiler alert: about the ending of The Gift. by MaryAnn Johanson. Wed, Aug 12, 2015. 119 comments. “Bad things can be a gift,” says Gordo (Joel Edgerton) to his old high-school classmate, Simon WHAT MAKES A MOVIE STAR A MOVIE STAR? (QOTW What makes a movie star a movie star? (QOTW) Film critic Stephen Witty explores the differences between movie stars and actors this weekend at NJ.com. A taste: eing an actor, and being a star, are different jobs, requiring different skill sets. And if very few people can truly master one, it’s even harder to find someone who can handle both.FLICKFILOSOPHER.COM
movie of the moment. MaryAnn’s quick take: Come on down for a gen-u-ine American dystopia at the crossroads of end-of-empire and late-stage capitalism. Chloé Zhao’s outsider’s eye in Nomadland is hugely sympathetic but unhindered by knee-jerk patriotism. Read the review. Support independent film criticism with a monthly or annual MOVIES ON DVD/BLU/VOD US AND CANADA MaryAnn’s quick take: As credulous — or con-artist cheaty — as its demon-hunter protagonists, but lacking their charm. Worse, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It can’t even be bothered to justify and satisfy the procedural approach to its mystery.Read the review OSCAR BEST PICTURE WINNERS (ALPHABETICAL Oscar Best Picture winners (alphabetical) All About Eve (1950) All the King’s Men (1949) All Quiet on the Western Front (1929-30) Amadeus (1984) A Man for All Seasons (1966) American Beauty (1999) An American in Paris (1951) Annie Hall (1977) OSCAR NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY SHORTS 2021 (93RD ACADEMY Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts 2021 is streaming globally in virtual cinemas, which help support brick-and-mortar arthouses during the coronavirus pandemic. See the official site to purchase a ticket and watch online. (Also playing in some theaters in the US.) All the documentary shorts are also available to stream free (mostly) online; see review for links. OSCAR NOMINATED ANIMATED SHORTS 2021 (93RD ACADEMY AWARDS Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2021 (93rd Academy Awards) review. MaryAnn’s quick take: I don’t see how the astonishing “Opera,” by Erick Oh, doesn’t win the Oscar for Best Animated Short. This is a stupendous achievement, a cartoon clockwork depicting life, the universe, and everything. I don’t see how the astonishing “Opera DOCTOR WHO THING: YOUR NAME (OR ANY TEXT) IN GALLIFREYAN Gallifreyan isn’t a real language like Klingon is, though some fans are trying to make it so. One of them, artist Loren Sherman, has developed a guide to one fannishly developed form of Gallifreyan: at Sherman’s Planet, you’ll find primers for writing text, SPOILER ALERT: ABOUT THE ENDING OF SPRING spoiler alert: about the ending of Spring. by MaryAnn Johanson. Fri, Apr 03, 2015. 278 comments. Spring is the story of an ordinary, uninteresting young man who somehow — we never know how — convinces an amazing, extraordinary woman to fall in love with him. CAPERNAUM MOVIE REVIEW: A CHILD’S REAL-LIFE HORROR Harrowing and heartbreaking, a nightmare dystopia that could almost be a documentary. This tough but essential film slyly asks us to consider what we owe children, not just our own but the world’s. I n a courtroom in Beirut, 12-year-old Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) is suing his parents for the “crime” of having given birth to him. SPOILER ALERT: ABOUT THE ENDING OF THE GIFT spoiler alert: about the ending of The Gift. by MaryAnn Johanson. Wed, Aug 12, 2015. 119 comments. “Bad things can be a gift,” says Gordo (Joel Edgerton) to his old high-school classmate, Simon WHAT MAKES A MOVIE STAR A MOVIE STAR? (QOTW What makes a movie star a movie star? (QOTW) Film critic Stephen Witty explores the differences between movie stars and actors this weekend at NJ.com. A taste: eing an actor, and being a star, are different jobs, requiring different skill sets. And if very few people can truly master one, it’s even harder to find someone who can handle both. INFINITE MOVIE REVIEW: WHOA NO (#PARAMOUNTPLUS 1 day ago · W ell, they’re not wrong about the “infinite” stuff. Infinite has damn near infinite levels of: • cliché • embarrassing dialogue • ridiculous vehicular chases • dangerous ideas about mental illness • shocking lack of imaginationINFINITE ARCHIVES
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I BLAME SOCIETY MOVIE REVIEW: JEOPARDIZING HER LIKABILITY I t’s absolutely impossible not to wonder how much of I Blame Society — a vicious, delicious sendup of Hollywood bullshit — is merely filmmaker Gillian Wallace Horvat straight-up fantasizing about violent retribution on the industry that never misses an opportunity to fail women both onscreen and behind the camera. Write what youknow? Hoo boy.
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THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE) (REVIEW The film is simultaneously more horrific than it sounds, and less. On a basic blood-and-guts level, it’s not very gory at all — your imagination is, as always, far more effective at anticipating what such horrors you will witness than what actually ends up onscreen. MEGAN LEAVEY (AKA REX) MOVIE REVIEW: A SOLDIER AND HER DOG The script — by Pamela Gray, Annie Mumolo ( Joy, Bridesmaids ), and Tim Lovestedt — is uncomplicated, but in an era of overplotted blockbusters, its straightforwardness is actually sort of bracing. There may be little that’s unexpected in Megan Leavey, but in this case, that’s just fine. This is an instant comfort movie for loversof
A SECOND CHANCE MOVIE REVIEW: COPS AND FATHERS This is an impossible tragedy on multiple levels, a movie that confounds all expectations and is full of a terrible suspense that has been haunting me since I first saw it at the London Film Festival last autumn. A second viewing last week confirmed it for me: this is even more heartstoppingly difficult when you know what’s coming. THE LAST SHAMAN DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: PHARMA MADNESS J ames Freeman was a well-off young white American man suffering from incurable depression or maybe he just could not get onboard with the bullshit of well-off white America and its insistence on conformity, financial success at any price, and the self sacrificed to mindless consumerism. When doctors and therapy and pharmaceuticals didn’t help, he decided — as a last-ditch GEOSTORM MOVIE REVIEW: WEATHER BOMB General Motors’ Geo Storm, produced from 1990 to 1993. Also a disaster. Tsunamis in Dubai, hailstorms in Tokyo, lightning in Orlando. Geostorm doesn’t even give good disaster porn: it’s CGI cartoonish and mostly doesn’t involve characters we care about. One catastrophe, in Rio de Janeiro, hopes we’ll be invested in whetheran
WONDER MOVIE REVIEW: LEARNING TO BE NICE TO A PARAGON The appeals to be nice and not bully are needed because 10-year-old Auggie is going to school — a real school — for the first time as Wonder opens. He has been homeschooled by his mom, Isabel (Julia Roberts: Smurfs: The Lost Village, Secret in Their Eyes), because he suffers from facial deformities that have required numerous surgeries, including plastic surgery, to fix.FLICKFILOSOPHER.COM
movie of the moment. MaryAnn’s quick take: Come on down for a gen-u-ine American dystopia at the crossroads of end-of-empire and late-stage capitalism. Chloé Zhao’s outsider’s eye in Nomadland is hugely sympathetic but unhindered by knee-jerk patriotism. Read the review. Support independent film criticism with a monthly or annual MOVIES ON DVD/BLU/VOD US AND CANADA MaryAnn’s quick take: As credulous — or con-artist cheaty — as its demon-hunter protagonists, but lacking their charm. Worse, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It can’t even be bothered to justify and satisfy the procedural approach to its mystery.Read the review OSCAR BEST PICTURE WINNERS (ALPHABETICAL Oscar Best Picture winners (alphabetical) All About Eve (1950) All the King’s Men (1949) All Quiet on the Western Front (1929-30) Amadeus (1984) A Man for All Seasons (1966) American Beauty (1999) An American in Paris (1951) Annie Hall (1977) OSCAR NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY SHORTS 2021 (93RD ACADEMY Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts 2021 is streaming globally in virtual cinemas, which help support brick-and-mortar arthouses during the coronavirus pandemic. See the official site to purchase a ticket and watch online. (Also playing in some theaters in the US.) All the documentary shorts are also available to stream free (mostly) online; see review for links. OSCAR NOMINATED ANIMATED SHORTS 2021 (93RD ACADEMY AWARDS Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2021 (93rd Academy Awards) review. MaryAnn’s quick take: I don’t see how the astonishing “Opera,” by Erick Oh, doesn’t win the Oscar for Best Animated Short. This is a stupendous achievement, a cartoon clockwork depicting life, the universe, and everything. I don’t see how the astonishing “Opera DOCTOR WHO THING: YOUR NAME (OR ANY TEXT) IN GALLIFREYAN Gallifreyan isn’t a real language like Klingon is, though some fans are trying to make it so. One of them, artist Loren Sherman, has developed a guide to one fannishly developed form of Gallifreyan: at Sherman’s Planet, you’ll find primers for writing text, SPOILER ALERT: ABOUT THE ENDING OF SPRING spoiler alert: about the ending of Spring. by MaryAnn Johanson. Fri, Apr 03, 2015. 278 comments. Spring is the story of an ordinary, uninteresting young man who somehow — we never know how — convinces an amazing, extraordinary woman to fall in love with him. CAPERNAUM MOVIE REVIEW: A CHILD’S REAL-LIFE HORROR Harrowing and heartbreaking, a nightmare dystopia that could almost be a documentary. This tough but essential film slyly asks us to consider what we owe children, not just our own but the world’s. I n a courtroom in Beirut, 12-year-old Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) is suing his parents for the “crime” of having given birth to him. SPOILER ALERT: ABOUT THE ENDING OF THE GIFT spoiler alert: about the ending of The Gift. by MaryAnn Johanson. Wed, Aug 12, 2015. 119 comments. “Bad things can be a gift,” says Gordo (Joel Edgerton) to his old high-school classmate, Simon WHAT MAKES A MOVIE STAR A MOVIE STAR? (QOTW What makes a movie star a movie star? (QOTW) Film critic Stephen Witty explores the differences between movie stars and actors this weekend at NJ.com. A taste: eing an actor, and being a star, are different jobs, requiring different skill sets. And if very few people can truly master one, it’s even harder to find someone who can handle both.FLICKFILOSOPHER.COM
movie of the moment. MaryAnn’s quick take: Come on down for a gen-u-ine American dystopia at the crossroads of end-of-empire and late-stage capitalism. Chloé Zhao’s outsider’s eye in Nomadland is hugely sympathetic but unhindered by knee-jerk patriotism. Read the review. Support independent film criticism with a monthly or annual MOVIES ON DVD/BLU/VOD US AND CANADA MaryAnn’s quick take: As credulous — or con-artist cheaty — as its demon-hunter protagonists, but lacking their charm. Worse, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It can’t even be bothered to justify and satisfy the procedural approach to its mystery.Read the review OSCAR BEST PICTURE WINNERS (ALPHABETICAL Oscar Best Picture winners (alphabetical) All About Eve (1950) All the King’s Men (1949) All Quiet on the Western Front (1929-30) Amadeus (1984) A Man for All Seasons (1966) American Beauty (1999) An American in Paris (1951) Annie Hall (1977) OSCAR NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY SHORTS 2021 (93RD ACADEMY Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts 2021 is streaming globally in virtual cinemas, which help support brick-and-mortar arthouses during the coronavirus pandemic. See the official site to purchase a ticket and watch online. (Also playing in some theaters in the US.) All the documentary shorts are also available to stream free (mostly) online; see review for links. OSCAR NOMINATED ANIMATED SHORTS 2021 (93RD ACADEMY AWARDS Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2021 (93rd Academy Awards) review. MaryAnn’s quick take: I don’t see how the astonishing “Opera,” by Erick Oh, doesn’t win the Oscar for Best Animated Short. This is a stupendous achievement, a cartoon clockwork depicting life, the universe, and everything. I don’t see how the astonishing “Opera DOCTOR WHO THING: YOUR NAME (OR ANY TEXT) IN GALLIFREYAN Gallifreyan isn’t a real language like Klingon is, though some fans are trying to make it so. One of them, artist Loren Sherman, has developed a guide to one fannishly developed form of Gallifreyan: at Sherman’s Planet, you’ll find primers for writing text, SPOILER ALERT: ABOUT THE ENDING OF SPRING spoiler alert: about the ending of Spring. by MaryAnn Johanson. Fri, Apr 03, 2015. 278 comments. Spring is the story of an ordinary, uninteresting young man who somehow — we never know how — convinces an amazing, extraordinary woman to fall in love with him. CAPERNAUM MOVIE REVIEW: A CHILD’S REAL-LIFE HORROR Harrowing and heartbreaking, a nightmare dystopia that could almost be a documentary. This tough but essential film slyly asks us to consider what we owe children, not just our own but the world’s. I n a courtroom in Beirut, 12-year-old Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) is suing his parents for the “crime” of having given birth to him. SPOILER ALERT: ABOUT THE ENDING OF THE GIFT spoiler alert: about the ending of The Gift. by MaryAnn Johanson. Wed, Aug 12, 2015. 119 comments. “Bad things can be a gift,” says Gordo (Joel Edgerton) to his old high-school classmate, Simon WHAT MAKES A MOVIE STAR A MOVIE STAR? (QOTW What makes a movie star a movie star? (QOTW) Film critic Stephen Witty explores the differences between movie stars and actors this weekend at NJ.com. A taste: eing an actor, and being a star, are different jobs, requiring different skill sets. And if very few people can truly master one, it’s even harder to find someone who can handle both. INFINITE MOVIE REVIEW: WHOA NO (#PARAMOUNTPLUS 19 hours ago · W ell, they’re not wrong about the “infinite” stuff. Infinite has damn near infinite levels of: • cliché • embarrassing dialogue • ridiculous vehicular chases • dangerous ideas about mental illness • shocking lack of imaginationINFINITE ARCHIVES
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I BLAME SOCIETY MOVIE REVIEW: JEOPARDIZING HER LIKABILITY I t’s absolutely impossible not to wonder how much of I Blame Society — a vicious, delicious sendup of Hollywood bullshit — is merely filmmaker Gillian Wallace Horvat straight-up fantasizing about violent retribution on the industry that never misses an opportunity to fail women both onscreen and behind the camera. Write what youknow? Hoo boy.
HIDDEN GEMS FROM AMAZON PRIME, NETFLIX, BBC IPLAYER, AND You spend two hours surfing the menus at Netflix or Amazon Prime, trying to decide what to watch, and eventually just give up because the options are so overwhelming. No more! Let me point you toward some hidden gems so you can jump right into watching something that’s guaranteed to be good. Heck, you might save so much time, you’ll beable
THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE) (REVIEW The film is simultaneously more horrific than it sounds, and less. On a basic blood-and-guts level, it’s not very gory at all — your imagination is, as always, far more effective at anticipating what such horrors you will witness than what actually ends up onscreen. MEGAN LEAVEY (AKA REX) MOVIE REVIEW: A SOLDIER AND HER DOG The script — by Pamela Gray, Annie Mumolo ( Joy, Bridesmaids ), and Tim Lovestedt — is uncomplicated, but in an era of overplotted blockbusters, its straightforwardness is actually sort of bracing. There may be little that’s unexpected in Megan Leavey, but in this case, that’s just fine. This is an instant comfort movie for loversof
A SECOND CHANCE MOVIE REVIEW: COPS AND FATHERS This is an impossible tragedy on multiple levels, a movie that confounds all expectations and is full of a terrible suspense that has been haunting me since I first saw it at the London Film Festival last autumn. A second viewing last week confirmed it for me: this is even more heartstoppingly difficult when you know what’s coming. THE LAST SHAMAN DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: PHARMA MADNESS J ames Freeman was a well-off young white American man suffering from incurable depression or maybe he just could not get onboard with the bullshit of well-off white America and its insistence on conformity, financial success at any price, and the self sacrificed to mindless consumerism. When doctors and therapy and pharmaceuticals didn’t help, he decided — as a last-ditch GEOSTORM MOVIE REVIEW: WEATHER BOMB General Motors’ Geo Storm, produced from 1990 to 1993. Also a disaster. Tsunamis in Dubai, hailstorms in Tokyo, lightning in Orlando. Geostorm doesn’t even give good disaster porn: it’s CGI cartoonish and mostly doesn’t involve characters we care about. One catastrophe, in Rio de Janeiro, hopes we’ll be invested in whetheran
WONDER MOVIE REVIEW: LEARNING TO BE NICE TO A PARAGON The appeals to be nice and not bully are needed because 10-year-old Auggie is going to school — a real school — for the first time as Wonder opens. He has been homeschooled by his mom, Isabel (Julia Roberts: Smurfs: The Lost Village, Secret in Their Eyes), because he suffers from facial deformities that have required numerous surgeries, including plastic surgery, to fix.FLICKFILOSOPHER.COM
movie of the moment. MaryAnn’s quick take: Come on down for a gen-u-ine American dystopia at the crossroads of end-of-empire and late-stage capitalism. Chloé Zhao’s outsider’s eye in Nomadland is hugely sympathetic but unhindered by knee-jerk patriotism. Read the review. Support independent film criticism with a monthly or annual MOVIES ON DVD/BLU/VOD US AND CANADA MaryAnn’s quick take: As credulous — or con-artist cheaty — as its demon-hunter protagonists, but lacking their charm. Worse, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It can’t even be bothered to justify and satisfy the procedural approach to its mystery.Read the review CURATED: WHY SO MUCH MOVIE CRITICISM, AND THE MOVIES It’s down to “Satanic Panics and the Death of Mythos.” Aisling McCrea at Current Affairs has hit on it. Check out her beautiful explanation of what she means by “mythos” — it’s not about religion or even overt spirituality but a more general sense of the numinous — and how we got to a place where so many of us simply can’t seem to muster it these days. OSCAR NOMINATED ANIMATED SHORTS 2021 (93RD ACADEMY AWARDS Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2021 (93rd Academy Awards) review. MaryAnn’s quick take: I don’t see how the astonishing “Opera,” by Erick Oh, doesn’t win the Oscar for Best Animated Short. This is a stupendous achievement, a cartoon clockwork depicting life, the universe, and everything. I don’t see how the astonishing “Opera OSCAR NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY SHORTS 2021 (93RD ACADEMY Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts 2021 is streaming globally in virtual cinemas, which help support brick-and-mortar arthouses during the coronavirus pandemic. See the official site to purchase a ticket and watch online. (Also playing in some theaters in the US.) All the documentary shorts are also available to stream free (mostly) online; see review for links. HIDDEN GEMS FROM AMAZON PRIME, NETFLIX, BBC IPLAYER, AND You spend two hours surfing the menus at Netflix or Amazon Prime, trying to decide what to watch, and eventually just give up because the options are so overwhelming. No more! Let me point you toward some hidden gems so you can jump right into watching something that’s guaranteed to be good. Heck, you might save so much time, you’ll beable
MY OCTOPUS TEACHER DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: OUT OF THE WAY It’s an extraordinary relationship, to be sure, but Teacher directors Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed made the baffling decision to put not the octopus but Foster at the center of their tale. He was in a bad way, lost in life and struggling to find new purpose for himself, and his experience in the ocean and observing the octopushealed him and
SPOILER ALERT: ABOUT THE ENDING OF SPRING spoiler alert: about the ending of Spring. by MaryAnn Johanson. Fri, Apr 03, 2015. 278 comments. Spring is the story of an ordinary, uninteresting young man who somehow — we never know how — convinces an amazing, extraordinary woman to fall in love with him. DOCTOR WHO THING: YOUR NAME (OR ANY TEXT) IN GALLIFREYAN Gallifreyan isn’t a real language like Klingon is, though some fans are trying to make it so. One of them, artist Loren Sherman, has developed a guide to one fannishly developed form of Gallifreyan: at Sherman’s Planet, you’ll find primers for writing text, SPOILER ALERT: ABOUT THE ENDING OF THE GIFT spoiler alert: about the ending of The Gift. by MaryAnn Johanson. Wed, Aug 12, 2015. 119 comments. “Bad things can be a gift,” says Gordo (Joel Edgerton) to his old high-school classmate, SimonFLICKFILOSOPHER.COM
movie of the moment. MaryAnn’s quick take: Come on down for a gen-u-ine American dystopia at the crossroads of end-of-empire and late-stage capitalism. Chloé Zhao’s outsider’s eye in Nomadland is hugely sympathetic but unhindered by knee-jerk patriotism. Read the review. Support independent film criticism with a monthly or annual MOVIES ON DVD/BLU/VOD US AND CANADA MaryAnn’s quick take: As credulous — or con-artist cheaty — as its demon-hunter protagonists, but lacking their charm. Worse, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It can’t even be bothered to justify and satisfy the procedural approach to its mystery.Read the review CURATED: WHY SO MUCH MOVIE CRITICISM, AND THE MOVIES It’s down to “Satanic Panics and the Death of Mythos.” Aisling McCrea at Current Affairs has hit on it. Check out her beautiful explanation of what she means by “mythos” — it’s not about religion or even overt spirituality but a more general sense of the numinous — and how we got to a place where so many of us simply can’t seem to muster it these days. OSCAR NOMINATED ANIMATED SHORTS 2021 (93RD ACADEMY AWARDS Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2021 (93rd Academy Awards) review. MaryAnn’s quick take: I don’t see how the astonishing “Opera,” by Erick Oh, doesn’t win the Oscar for Best Animated Short. This is a stupendous achievement, a cartoon clockwork depicting life, the universe, and everything. I don’t see how the astonishing “Opera OSCAR NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY SHORTS 2021 (93RD ACADEMY Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts 2021 is streaming globally in virtual cinemas, which help support brick-and-mortar arthouses during the coronavirus pandemic. See the official site to purchase a ticket and watch online. (Also playing in some theaters in the US.) All the documentary shorts are also available to stream free (mostly) online; see review for links. HIDDEN GEMS FROM AMAZON PRIME, NETFLIX, BBC IPLAYER, AND You spend two hours surfing the menus at Netflix or Amazon Prime, trying to decide what to watch, and eventually just give up because the options are so overwhelming. No more! Let me point you toward some hidden gems so you can jump right into watching something that’s guaranteed to be good. Heck, you might save so much time, you’ll beable
MY OCTOPUS TEACHER DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: OUT OF THE WAY It’s an extraordinary relationship, to be sure, but Teacher directors Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed made the baffling decision to put not the octopus but Foster at the center of their tale. He was in a bad way, lost in life and struggling to find new purpose for himself, and his experience in the ocean and observing the octopushealed him and
SPOILER ALERT: ABOUT THE ENDING OF SPRING spoiler alert: about the ending of Spring. by MaryAnn Johanson. Fri, Apr 03, 2015. 278 comments. Spring is the story of an ordinary, uninteresting young man who somehow — we never know how — convinces an amazing, extraordinary woman to fall in love with him. DOCTOR WHO THING: YOUR NAME (OR ANY TEXT) IN GALLIFREYAN Gallifreyan isn’t a real language like Klingon is, though some fans are trying to make it so. One of them, artist Loren Sherman, has developed a guide to one fannishly developed form of Gallifreyan: at Sherman’s Planet, you’ll find primers for writing text, SPOILER ALERT: ABOUT THE ENDING OF THE GIFT spoiler alert: about the ending of The Gift. by MaryAnn Johanson. Wed, Aug 12, 2015. 119 comments. “Bad things can be a gift,” says Gordo (Joel Edgerton) to his old high-school classmate, Simon CURATED: WHY SO MUCH MOVIE CRITICISM, AND THE MOVIES It’s down to “Satanic Panics and the Death of Mythos.” Aisling McCrea at Current Affairs has hit on it. Check out her beautiful explanation of what she means by “mythos” — it’s not about religion or even overt spirituality but a more general sense of the numinous — and how we got to a place where so many of us simply can’t seem to muster it these days. I AM — TENTATIVELY — RETURNING TO CINEMAS I am — tentatively — returning to cinemas. You may recall that almost exactly a year ago, “I pledge not to review any new movie available only in cinemas as long as COVID-19 remains a danger.”. You may also have noticed that I recently reviewed A Quiet Place: Part II which is available only in cinemas. Preparing to step into a CURRENT AFFAIRS ARCHIVES “he denial of mythos is everywhere in our culture, and it can partially explain why so much of our approach to everything artistic, challenging, or mysterious seems reductive, dull, and unimaginative.” | Leave a comment NEW AND ONGOING CINEMA RELEASES, US/CAN, JUN 04 Fri, Jun 04, 2021. A simple listing, duplicated from the in cinemas US and Canada page, of new releases and other films now playing, for the benefit of those playing along by RSS or keeping up via the Weekly Digest emails ( sign up here ). The most up-to-date version of this listing is always here. NEW AND ONGOING DVD/BLU/VOD RELEASES, UK/IRE, MAY 31–JUN A simple listing, duplicated from the dvd/blu/vod UK and Ireland page, of new releases and other stuff currently available, for the benefit of those playing along by RSS or keeping up via the Weekly Digest emails (sign up here).. The most up-to-date version of this listing isalways here.
MY OCTOPUS TEACHER DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: OUT OF THE WAY It’s an extraordinary relationship, to be sure, but Teacher directors Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed made the baffling decision to put not the octopus but Foster at the center of their tale. He was in a bad way, lost in life and struggling to find new purpose for himself, and his experience in the ocean and observing the octopushealed him and
THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE) (REVIEW The film is simultaneously more horrific than it sounds, and less. On a basic blood-and-guts level, it’s not very gory at all — your imagination is, as always, far more effective at anticipating what such horrors you will witness than what actually ends up onscreen. CONTAINMENT (AKA INFECTED) MOVIE REVIEW: NO PLACE LIKE Containment (aka Infected) movie review: no place like home. MaryAnn’s quick take. There’s nothing groundbreaking in this low-budget sci-fi thriller, but newbie director Mcenery-West makes excellent use of his claustrophobic setting. I n a residential tower block in an unnamed English town, artist Mark (Lee Ross: Dawn of thePlanet of
CAPERNAUM MOVIE REVIEW: A CHILD’S REAL-LIFE HORROR Harrowing and heartbreaking, a nightmare dystopia that could almost be a documentary. This tough but essential film slyly asks us to consider what we owe children, not just our own but the world’s. I n a courtroom in Beirut, 12-year-old Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) is suing his parents for the “crime” of having given birth to him. BEAST MOVIE REVIEW: A MONSTROUS LOVE A vulnerable woman. A violent man. We’re seen this dynamic onscreen countless times before, always playing out in utterly predictable ways. But there’s nothing predictable about Beast, the electrifying feature debut of British writer-director Michael Pearce.This movie would be a total upending of the genre if it could be easily slottedinto a genre.
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movie of the moment. MaryAnn’s quick take: Come on down for a gen-u-ine American dystopia at the crossroads of end-of-empire and late-stage capitalism. Chloé Zhao’s outsider’s eye in Nomadland is hugely sympathetic but unhindered by knee-jerk patriotism. Read the review. Support independent film criticism with a monthly or annual MOVIES ON DVD/BLU/VOD US AND CANADA MaryAnn’s quick take: As credulous — or con-artist cheaty — as its demon-hunter protagonists, but lacking their charm. Worse, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It can’t even be bothered to justify and satisfy the procedural approach to its mystery.Read the review CURATED: WHY SO MUCH MOVIE CRITICISM, AND THE MOVIES It’s down to “Satanic Panics and the Death of Mythos.” Aisling McCrea at Current Affairs has hit on it. Check out her beautiful explanation of what she means by “mythos” — it’s not about religion or even overt spirituality but a more general sense of the numinous — and how we got to a place where so many of us simply can’t seem to muster it these days. OSCAR NOMINATED ANIMATED SHORTS 2021 (93RD ACADEMY AWARDS Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2021 (93rd Academy Awards) review. MaryAnn’s quick take: I don’t see how the astonishing “Opera,” by Erick Oh, doesn’t win the Oscar for Best Animated Short. This is a stupendous achievement, a cartoon clockwork depicting life, the universe, and everything. I don’t see how the astonishing “Opera OSCAR NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY SHORTS 2021 (93RD ACADEMY Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts 2021 is streaming globally in virtual cinemas, which help support brick-and-mortar arthouses during the coronavirus pandemic. See the official site to purchase a ticket and watch online. (Also playing in some theaters in the US.) All the documentary shorts are also available to stream free (mostly) online; see review for links. HIDDEN GEMS FROM AMAZON PRIME, NETFLIX, BBC IPLAYER, AND You spend two hours surfing the menus at Netflix or Amazon Prime, trying to decide what to watch, and eventually just give up because the options are so overwhelming. No more! Let me point you toward some hidden gems so you can jump right into watching something that’s guaranteed to be good. Heck, you might save so much time, you’ll beable
MY OCTOPUS TEACHER DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: OUT OF THE WAY It’s an extraordinary relationship, to be sure, but Teacher directors Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed made the baffling decision to put not the octopus but Foster at the center of their tale. He was in a bad way, lost in life and struggling to find new purpose for himself, and his experience in the ocean and observing the octopushealed him and
SPOILER ALERT: ABOUT THE ENDING OF SPRING spoiler alert: about the ending of Spring. by MaryAnn Johanson. Fri, Apr 03, 2015. 278 comments. Spring is the story of an ordinary, uninteresting young man who somehow — we never know how — convinces an amazing, extraordinary woman to fall in love with him. DOCTOR WHO THING: YOUR NAME (OR ANY TEXT) IN GALLIFREYAN Gallifreyan isn’t a real language like Klingon is, though some fans are trying to make it so. One of them, artist Loren Sherman, has developed a guide to one fannishly developed form of Gallifreyan: at Sherman’s Planet, you’ll find primers for writing text, SPOILER ALERT: ABOUT THE ENDING OF THE GIFT spoiler alert: about the ending of The Gift. by MaryAnn Johanson. Wed, Aug 12, 2015. 119 comments. “Bad things can be a gift,” says Gordo (Joel Edgerton) to his old high-school classmate, SimonFLICKFILOSOPHER.COM
movie of the moment. MaryAnn’s quick take: Come on down for a gen-u-ine American dystopia at the crossroads of end-of-empire and late-stage capitalism. Chloé Zhao’s outsider’s eye in Nomadland is hugely sympathetic but unhindered by knee-jerk patriotism. Read the review. Support independent film criticism with a monthly or annual MOVIES ON DVD/BLU/VOD US AND CANADA MaryAnn’s quick take: As credulous — or con-artist cheaty — as its demon-hunter protagonists, but lacking their charm. Worse, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It can’t even be bothered to justify and satisfy the procedural approach to its mystery.Read the review CURATED: WHY SO MUCH MOVIE CRITICISM, AND THE MOVIES It’s down to “Satanic Panics and the Death of Mythos.” Aisling McCrea at Current Affairs has hit on it. Check out her beautiful explanation of what she means by “mythos” — it’s not about religion or even overt spirituality but a more general sense of the numinous — and how we got to a place where so many of us simply can’t seem to muster it these days. OSCAR NOMINATED ANIMATED SHORTS 2021 (93RD ACADEMY AWARDS Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2021 (93rd Academy Awards) review. MaryAnn’s quick take: I don’t see how the astonishing “Opera,” by Erick Oh, doesn’t win the Oscar for Best Animated Short. This is a stupendous achievement, a cartoon clockwork depicting life, the universe, and everything. I don’t see how the astonishing “Opera OSCAR NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY SHORTS 2021 (93RD ACADEMY Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts 2021 is streaming globally in virtual cinemas, which help support brick-and-mortar arthouses during the coronavirus pandemic. See the official site to purchase a ticket and watch online. (Also playing in some theaters in the US.) All the documentary shorts are also available to stream free (mostly) online; see review for links. HIDDEN GEMS FROM AMAZON PRIME, NETFLIX, BBC IPLAYER, AND You spend two hours surfing the menus at Netflix or Amazon Prime, trying to decide what to watch, and eventually just give up because the options are so overwhelming. No more! Let me point you toward some hidden gems so you can jump right into watching something that’s guaranteed to be good. Heck, you might save so much time, you’ll beable
MY OCTOPUS TEACHER DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: OUT OF THE WAY It’s an extraordinary relationship, to be sure, but Teacher directors Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed made the baffling decision to put not the octopus but Foster at the center of their tale. He was in a bad way, lost in life and struggling to find new purpose for himself, and his experience in the ocean and observing the octopushealed him and
SPOILER ALERT: ABOUT THE ENDING OF SPRING spoiler alert: about the ending of Spring. by MaryAnn Johanson. Fri, Apr 03, 2015. 278 comments. Spring is the story of an ordinary, uninteresting young man who somehow — we never know how — convinces an amazing, extraordinary woman to fall in love with him. DOCTOR WHO THING: YOUR NAME (OR ANY TEXT) IN GALLIFREYAN Gallifreyan isn’t a real language like Klingon is, though some fans are trying to make it so. One of them, artist Loren Sherman, has developed a guide to one fannishly developed form of Gallifreyan: at Sherman’s Planet, you’ll find primers for writing text, SPOILER ALERT: ABOUT THE ENDING OF THE GIFT spoiler alert: about the ending of The Gift. by MaryAnn Johanson. Wed, Aug 12, 2015. 119 comments. “Bad things can be a gift,” says Gordo (Joel Edgerton) to his old high-school classmate, Simon CURATED: WHY SO MUCH MOVIE CRITICISM, AND THE MOVIES It’s down to “Satanic Panics and the Death of Mythos.” Aisling McCrea at Current Affairs has hit on it. Check out her beautiful explanation of what she means by “mythos” — it’s not about religion or even overt spirituality but a more general sense of the numinous — and how we got to a place where so many of us simply can’t seem to muster it these days. I AM — TENTATIVELY — RETURNING TO CINEMAS I am — tentatively — returning to cinemas. You may recall that almost exactly a year ago, “I pledge not to review any new movie available only in cinemas as long as COVID-19 remains a danger.”. You may also have noticed that I recently reviewed A Quiet Place: Part II which is available only in cinemas. Preparing to step into a CURRENT AFFAIRS ARCHIVES “he denial of mythos is everywhere in our culture, and it can partially explain why so much of our approach to everything artistic, challenging, or mysterious seems reductive, dull, and unimaginative.” | Leave a comment NEW AND ONGOING CINEMA RELEASES, US/CAN, JUN 04 Fri, Jun 04, 2021. A simple listing, duplicated from the in cinemas US and Canada page, of new releases and other films now playing, for the benefit of those playing along by RSS or keeping up via the Weekly Digest emails ( sign up here ). The most up-to-date version of this listing is always here. NEW AND ONGOING DVD/BLU/VOD RELEASES, UK/IRE, MAY 31–JUN A simple listing, duplicated from the dvd/blu/vod UK and Ireland page, of new releases and other stuff currently available, for the benefit of those playing along by RSS or keeping up via the Weekly Digest emails (sign up here).. The most up-to-date version of this listing isalways here.
MY OCTOPUS TEACHER DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: OUT OF THE WAY It’s an extraordinary relationship, to be sure, but Teacher directors Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed made the baffling decision to put not the octopus but Foster at the center of their tale. He was in a bad way, lost in life and struggling to find new purpose for himself, and his experience in the ocean and observing the octopushealed him and
THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE) (REVIEW The film is simultaneously more horrific than it sounds, and less. On a basic blood-and-guts level, it’s not very gory at all — your imagination is, as always, far more effective at anticipating what such horrors you will witness than what actually ends up onscreen. CONTAINMENT (AKA INFECTED) MOVIE REVIEW: NO PLACE LIKE Containment (aka Infected) movie review: no place like home. MaryAnn’s quick take. There’s nothing groundbreaking in this low-budget sci-fi thriller, but newbie director Mcenery-West makes excellent use of his claustrophobic setting. I n a residential tower block in an unnamed English town, artist Mark (Lee Ross: Dawn of thePlanet of
CAPERNAUM MOVIE REVIEW: A CHILD’S REAL-LIFE HORROR Harrowing and heartbreaking, a nightmare dystopia that could almost be a documentary. This tough but essential film slyly asks us to consider what we owe children, not just our own but the world’s. I n a courtroom in Beirut, 12-year-old Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) is suing his parents for the “crime” of having given birth to him. BEAST MOVIE REVIEW: A MONSTROUS LOVE A vulnerable woman. A violent man. We’re seen this dynamic onscreen countless times before, always playing out in utterly predictable ways. But there’s nothing predictable about Beast, the electrifying feature debut of British writer-director Michael Pearce.This movie would be a total upending of the genre if it could be easily slottedinto a genre.
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movie of the moment. MaryAnn’s quick take: Come on down for a gen-u-ine American dystopia at the crossroads of end-of-empire and late-stage capitalism. Chloé Zhao’s outsider’s eye in Nomadland is hugely sympathetic but unhindered by knee-jerk patriotism. Read the review. Support independent film criticism with a monthly or annual OSCAR BEST PICTURE WINNERS (ALPHABETICAL Oscar Best Picture winners (alphabetical) All About Eve (1950) All the King’s Men (1949) All Quiet on the Western Front (1929-30) Amadeus (1984) A Man for All Seasons (1966) American Beauty (1999) An American in Paris (1951) Annie Hall (1977) SPOILER ALERT: ABOUT THE ENDING OF SPRING spoiler alert: about the ending of Spring. by MaryAnn Johanson. Fri, Apr 03, 2015. 278 comments. Spring is the story of an ordinary, uninteresting young man who somehow — we never know how — convinces an amazing, extraordinary woman to fall in love with him. CAPERNAUM MOVIE REVIEW: A CHILD’S REAL-LIFE HORROR Harrowing and heartbreaking, a nightmare dystopia that could almost be a documentary. This tough but essential film slyly asks us to consider what we owe children, not just our own but the world’s. I n a courtroom in Beirut, 12-year-old Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) is suing his parents for the “crime” of having given birth to him. SPOILER ALERT: ABOUT THE ENDING OF THE GIFT spoiler alert: about the ending of The Gift. by MaryAnn Johanson. Wed, Aug 12, 2015. 119 comments. “Bad things can be a gift,” says Gordo (Joel Edgerton) to his old high-school classmate, Simon PAUL WALKER IS AN IDIOT ABROAD (VEHICLE 19 REVIEW I’m “biast” (pro): nothing. And here I was all ready to praise poor cute dumb-as-a-post Paul Walker for at least trying, bless his little heart. Vehicle 19 is, like, foreign and everything though there’s no subtitles, so it’s not scary foreign — calm down. Still: it’s practically arthouse as these things go. QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHY ARE YOU INTERESTED IN FILM Sometimes the first step is recognizing that someone is attempting to communicate at all. What I love are stories. And I'm interested in any medium that connects a storyteller to an audience: a bard spinning tales by the fire, a song, a play, a musical, a book, a news report, a radio drama, a film. DANCES WITH WOLVES (REVIEW) Dances with Wolves is a beautiful, moving film about the closing of the American frontier and all that disappeared with it. Dunbar (Kevin Costner) is granted his wish when he is sent to tiny, ramshackle Fort Sedgwick. Alone in the middle of the prairie, his first visitor is a curious wolf he names Two Socks, who is both a bridge to the untamed MEGAN LEAVEY (AKA REX) MOVIE REVIEW: A SOLDIER AND HER DOGMOVIE DOG SOLDIER CASTTHE LAST DOG SOLDIER MOVIE The script — by Pamela Gray, Annie Mumolo ( Joy, Bridesmaids ), and Tim Lovestedt — is uncomplicated, but in an era of overplotted blockbusters, its straightforwardness is actually sort of bracing. There may be little that’s unexpected in Megan Leavey, but in this case, that’s just fine. This is an instant comfort movie for loversof
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The Trial of the Half Century. All the Bible-thumpers who think the cures for America’s woes lie in posting the Ten Commandments everywhere would do well to remember this: Those same decrees were on display in the Nuremberg courtroom in which Nazi law was handed down, laws responsible for the persecution of entire races of people and, ultimately, for the deaths of tens of millions.FLICKFILOSOPHER.COM
film criticism by MaryAnn Johanson, since 1997. MaryAnn’s quick take: A marvel of a sequel that smartly avoids any attempt to recapture the original, instead expanding its world in every way possible.A Quiet Place: Part II is brisk, crisp, efficient, and full of masterful sequences of suspense.Read the review OSCAR BEST PICTURE WINNERS (ALPHABETICAL All About Eve (1950) All the King’s Men (1949) All Quiet on the Western Front (1929-30) Amadeus (1984) A Man for All Seasons (1966) American Beauty (1999) An American in Paris (1951) Annie Hall (1977) The Apartment (1960) Argo (2012) Around the World in 80 Days (1956)The
CAPERNAUM MOVIE REVIEW: A CHILD’S REAL-LIFE HORROR Zain is surely one of the most memorable child protagonists in absolutely ages, and through his point of view, which is a far more intimate child’s perspective than cinema usually gives us, Capernaum slyly asks us adults to consider what we owe children. Not our own children, though of course that’s part of it, but the world’s children, all of them. PAUL WALKER IS AN IDIOT ABROAD (VEHICLE 19 REVIEW And here I was all ready to praise poor cute dumb-as-a-post Paul Walker for at least trying, bless his little heart.Vehicle 19 is, like, foreign and everything though there’s no subtitles, so it’s not scary foreign — calm down. Still: it’s practically arthouse asthese things go.
SPOILER ALERT: ABOUT THE ENDING OF SPRING. Spring is the
story of an ordinary, uninteresting young man who somehow — we never know how — convinces an amazing, extraordinary woman to fall in love with him. This is, in many aspects, a tediously familiar story, one we’ve seen numerous times onscreen. But Spring is special in that it brings a new sci-fi-horror element to the DANCES WITH WOLVES (REVIEW) Dances with Wolves is one of the most visually and emotionally stunning movies I've ever seen, a glimmer of another world where less might have been lost if more people had been as open and friendly as John Dunbar. From John Barry's stirring score to director/producer Costner's daring presentation of a huge chunk of the QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHY ARE YOU INTERESTED IN FILM It’s so glaringly obvious as something that needs to be discussed, and I don’t think we ever have here before. It’s clearly to be taken as a given that anyone reading this site is interested in film as a way of telling stories and as an entertainment, but why? MEGAN LEAVEY (AKA REX) MOVIE REVIEW: A SOLDIER AND HER DOGMOVIE DOG SOLDIER CASTTHE LAST DOG SOLDIER MOVIE Kate Mara (Morgan, The Martian) is terrific navigating Leavey’s restive despair as it slowly morphs into patience and power and confidence as she connects with and trains Rex, a bomb-sniffing dog with a bit of an attitude problem himself.Gabriela Cowperthwaite — the documentarian who gave us the astonishing Blackfish — makes her narrative debut here, and handles with surety the film’sNUREMBERG (REVIEW)
The Trial of the Half Century. All the Bible-thumpers who think the cures for America’s woes lie in posting the Ten Commandments everywhere would do well to remember this: Those same decrees were on display in the Nuremberg courtroom in which Nazi law was handed down, laws responsible for the persecution of entire races of people and, ultimately, for the deaths of tens of millions. SPOILER ALERT: ABOUT THE ENDING OF THE GIFT“Bad things
can be a gift,” says Gordo (Joel Edgerton) to his old high-schoolclassmate, Simon
MOVIES ON DVD/BLU/VOD US AND CANADA MaryAnn’s quick take: As credulous — or con-artist cheaty — as its demon-hunter protagonists, but lacking their charm. Worse, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It can’t even be bothered to justify and satisfy the procedural approach to its mystery.Read the review I AM — TENTATIVELY — RETURNING TO CINEMAS 1 day ago · You may recall that almost exactly a year ago, “I pledge not to review any new movie available only in cinemas as long as COVID-19 remains a danger.” You may also have noticed that I recently reviewed A Quiet Place: Part II which is available only in cinemas.. Preparing to step into a multiplex these days like CURATED: WHY SO MUCH MOVIE CRITICISM, AND THE MOVIES 1 day ago · It’s down to “Satanic Panics and the Death of Mythos.” Aisling McCrea at Current Affairs has hit on it. Check out her beautiful explanation of what she means by “mythos” — it’s not about religion or even overt spirituality but a more general sense of the numinous — and how we got to a place where so many of us simply can’t seem to muster it these days. NEW AND ONGOING CINEMA RELEASES, US/CAN, JUN 04 A simple listing, duplicated from the in cinemas US and Canada page, of new releases and other films now playing, for the benefit of those playing along by RSS or keeping up via the Weekly Digest emails (sign up here).. The most up-to-date version of this listing is always here. THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT REVIEW: POSSESSED D id you know that there was a court case — a murder trial! — in the US in the 1980s in which the defense attorney actually argued that the devil made the defendant do it? That the young man accused of murdering his landlord was not guilty by reason of *checks notes* demonic possession? Isn’t that extraordinary?ON NETFLIX GLOBALLY
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