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Decades after initially falling in love with Julie Christie, I recently re-viewed her 1997 Afterglow and understood how it is that every time I see her onscreen I fall in love all over again with […]
Writer/ Director Jordan Peele makes the surprising leap from small screen comedy (Key and Peele) to cinema horror with surprisingly striking results. His feature debut is a frothy, creepy and subversive spin on small-town sci-fi […]
Irish filmmaker John Carney had a surprise success in 2006 with his low-budget Once, set in Dublin, which won the Oscar for best original song and went on to become a hit Broadway musical. Begin […]
Immediately following on the heels of Jane Campion’s 1996 film of The Portrait of a Lady, starring Nicole Kidman, and Agnieszka Holland’s Washington Square in 1997, with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, and Maggie Smith, […]