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"Death by Lightning" Is The Most Engaging of Political Dramas about Forgotten American Politicians
In the last of the four episodes of the Netflix miniseries “Death by Lightning,” about the rise and assassination of late-19th century President James…
Jan 5
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The Best Movies I Watched This Year, Including the Best of 2025 So Far
I list my top movies of 2025, the greatest 5-star movies I watched this year, and a recommended list of good family-films.
Dec 29, 2025
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Me and James Bond and Grandma
My evaluation of the entire James-Bond movie franchise, from the point of view of memory
Dec 16, 2025
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"Wake Up Dead Man" Brings Back the Clerical Mystery with Hollywood Flair
I recently wrote about the Netflix film Train Dreams, which oddly harkened back to the mountain-man movie, and now we have another old subgenre…
Dec 12, 2025
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The State of Things with "Learning About Movies"
I was searching my hard drive for the movie Dog Day Afternoon, to write about it, when I realized I didn’t have it with me.
Dec 4, 2025
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"Train Dreams" Revitalizes the Mountain-Man Film
(Note: written with a killer headache in a post-flu apocalypse, in which I’m on my fourth day of a couch-ridden existence.
Nov 28, 2025
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Netflix Just Released Perhaps the Most Important Movie of the Decade
It's Kathyrn Bigelow's "A House of Dynamite"
Nov 13, 2025
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Guillermo Del Toro's "Frankenstein" -- Movie Review
“Some of what I will tell you is fact, some is not, but it is all true.” — Victor Frankenstein in Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein (2025)
Nov 10, 2025
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