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Front Row at the Movies: Downhill
Perhaps the seemingly brilliant casting of Ferrell and Louis-Dreyfus created false expectations on my part. I was looking for a comedy that’s less dark. Here, we have a battle of the sexes without the coming together of mutual love in the end.
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Tropic Sprockets: Fantastic Fungi
It is well known that people are generally afraid of fungi. Like a strange entity or an invader that one cannot describe, it often seems that fungi is something sinister or scary beyond our understanding. If you have these feelings or even a curiosity about fungi, this is the documentary for you.
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Tropic Sprockets: Downhill
As a conceptual exercise, “Downhill” works fine. It is only that the first film is so striking in its emotive power and apprehension that it turns its distant cousin to mere powder by comparison.
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Tropic Sprockets: Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts
This year’s documentary shorts are visceral, raw, potent and punchy. Each one takes you across the world and there is something for every eye. Every film is a microcosm of life, and not one of them holds back reality. As a group, each work is painfully honest.
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Tropic Sprockets: Clemency
“Clemency” is propulsive, honest and gripping. Though it is just as much a character study as it is a meditation on capital punishment, it is one of the best films I have seen on the unthinkable subject, and it will have you feeling restless far into the night.
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Front Row at the Movies: Clemency
Could you officially kill someone? While the warden may not pull the switch, he or she has to take the responsibility for carrying out the state’s sentence. That life-or-death burden would take a toll on anyone short of a psychopath. Alfre Woodard stuns as a prison warden whose job has gotten the best of her.
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Front Row at the Movies: Top 10 2020 Oscar Predictions
Deck yourself out this Sunday night for the Red Carpet at Tropic Cinema as movie lovers turn out to watch the 92nd Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science annual awards – the Oscars, that is. As required by the unwritten rules of being a film critic, here are my Top Ten 2020 Oscars picks.
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Front Row at the Movies: The Gentlemen
I remember being dragged by my friend Terry Stewart to see “Snatch” back when I didn’t know who Guy Ritchie was. At the time Terry was vice chairman of Marvel Comics and he knew his pop culture. “This guy is good,” he said of Guy Ritchie. “He’s going to be a big deal.” He was right.
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Tropic Sprockets: Oscar-Nominated Live Action Shorts
This year’s films range from the sinister to the somber, taking us across the world to the far reaches of experience. While the selections are chiefly apprehensive and angst-ridden, they are undoubtedly compelling.
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Tropic Sprockets: Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts
As strange as it may seem for this year’s animated shorts, a sense of melancholia is the order of the day. That said, there are some striking entries, along with the bittersweet, the morose and one that is simply silly.
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