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Movies of the Week #51 (2025): Truth, Change, and the Trouble with Pablo
This week’s movies cover the uneasy mix of personal transformation and broader power structures, whether inside a courtroom, a swimming pool, or a presidential motorcade. A Few Good Men and Loving Pablo reflect the extremes of justice—one gripping and theatrical, the other flat and chaotic—while Nadia, Butterfly offers a quieter confrontation with identity beyond career.… Read more
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Movies of the Week #27 #28 (2025): Fake Personas, Real Laughs, and Crumbling Societies
This week’s movies cover satirical excess, genre rehashes, and the fragile balance between comedy and commentary. Whether it’s Deep Cover’s delightful self-awareness or 28 Years Later’s faith-rooted apocalypse, each film explores versions of constructed identity—be it through undercover roles, survivalist personas, or public-facing image. Even F1: The Movie and The Dictator wrestle with illusion vs.… Read more
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Movies of the Week #5 (2023)
Unrelated (2007): While still pussyfooting about The Souvenir: Part II, I dug deep and found myself watching Joanna Hogg’s debut feature film. As an added bonus, this also happens to be the non-TV debut of Tom Hiddleston. The movie tells of forty-something Anna (Kathryn Worth), who is struggling with mid-life things while on holiday in Read more
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