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Tropic Sprockets: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Tim Burton has fashioned a melancholic but surrealistic sensibility, employing elements from Charles Addams, Edgar Allan Poe, and Steven Spielberg with a bit of Dr. Seuss.
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Front Row at the Movies: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
In this new romp, also directed by Tim Burton, we encounter the Deetz family more than three decades later, returning to the home that Beetlejuice had chased them out of.
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Tropic Sprockets: Slingshot
"Slingshot" is a puzzle of a film. Unfortunately, the film’s endless twists and turns tires the audience’s logic to an extreme degree as to become nonsensical.
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Front Row at the Movies: East of Eden
Despite only appearing in a trio of films, the “cultural rebel status of James Dean is just as strong in the 21st century as it was at the height of his popularity in the 1950s.”
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Tropic Sprockets: Between the Temples
“Between the Temples” is an amiable affectionate film in the mode of Woody Allen and Noah Baumbach. The film has a nostalgic feel that echoes the films of the 1970s. It is authentic, warm, and engaging.
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Front Row at the Movies: Widow Clicquot
“Widow Clicquot” is the kind of film to make you want to follow it up by going across the street to sip a flute of rosé champagne with a fellow moviegoer.
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Tropic Sprockets: Sing Sing
Seldom are prison films concerned with the inmates as human beings, soulful selves with humanity, emotion, and sensitivity. “Sing Sing," from drector Greg Kwedar, does this very thing flawlessly with great openness, heart, and a trace of humor.
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Front Row at the Movies: She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry
“This year’s film, ‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,’ takes a look back at the wave of feminism in the mid 1960s in hopes of re-energizing attendees,” says Darlene Thomas, President of Key West National Organization for Women. “With many of the successes accomplished being pushed backwards, we need to pull together and push forward.
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Tropic Sprockets: War Game
This is no feel-good film or popcorn flick, making for some extremely arduous viewing. Regardless, it reveals what is fearsome and fragile within the country.
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Front Row at the Movies: The Searchers
“The Searchers” may be the best Western movie ever made … starring the greatest cowboy star ever (John Wayne) … directed by the best Western director ever (John Ford).
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