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The Post: Even though I knew the story, I found it tense, suspenseful and moving.

Hostiles: a story of the American west in 1892. Horrifying and monotone in its grim depiction of emotional and...

Four Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Stars Mildred Hayes (of Fargo fame), Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, and Peter Dinkage. There are no purely good guys or purely bad. It’s about people...

GET OUT
Gave me new respect for the T.S. motherfuckin' A.

Manchester By The Sea
The sad story of a man whose understandable inability to forgive himself inhibits his ability to help and relate to others - and his one an incremental step toward progress. ...

The Nice Guys. A 70's era, noir detective comedy with impeccable timing. Loosely based on an old pulp novel by Brett Halliday (Davis Dresser). Reminiscent in some respects (but not an attempt to...

"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" a troubling mix of humor and war depicting the addiction of an embedded journalist to the hazards of her job. It has it moments. I give it 2 1/2 stars (out of four).

Mostly agree with your take on The Hateful Eight, Stavros. Thanks for the review, and welcome back (I haven't seen you for awhile). I'll add that for an action movie where everything is settled...

Spotlight
I give it two thumbs up.

Our Brand is Crisis: Fair to middlin'. At least it was a story and not a romance.
Spectre: Pretty bad. In fact we laughed all the way through it, so I guess it was laughably bad.

Thanks, Stavros, for the article.

Bridge of Spies
It was directed by Steven Spielberg, but the Coen brothers (who wrote the screenplay along with Matt Charman) are all over this. Splendidly written, superbly acted (Tom Hanks and...

Already spoiled the movie by reading the book (which was great by the way). Thanks for the review, I'm definitely planning to see it.

Black Mass
Definitely no romanticizing here. In this accounting Whitey Bulger brutal, petty, gritty and totally unappealing. One is mystified by the loyalty he was able to extract from his fellow...

Ex Machina:
Well worth the ticket. Often, in ancient Greek drama, a god was lowered onto the stage by a crane hidden behind the set. This device was called the “Deus ex machina.” The appearance...

Imitation Game

It's about Alan Turing, the British mathematician who is a founder of the theory of computation and mathematical logic in general, who wrote on the question of whether machines can...

Arthur C. Clarke also hated Kubrick's version of 2001. Clarke would've preferred a more literal reading.

I agree that usually the film will ruin the experience of reading a book, and vice versa. ...

I’d rather not forward an umbrella view on the entirety of Kubrick’s filmography. Instead I'll take the movies you mentioned singly, or in groups.

Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove and Full Metal...

Never thought of it that way :) .... hmmm .... so it just got me to thinking .... do werewolf penises have a knot (e.g. bulbus glandis) as do other canines? Not that I'm interested ... you know...

To paraphrase Nietzsche, 2001 was a film for everyone and no one. I agree, that Dr. Strangelove is a pessimistic film and that Barry Lyndon is not an exemplar of what is best in humankind. Each of...

Contact is interesting in that it questions some of the basic assumptions of what’s taken to be scientific methodology. It points out that not all experience is open to public inspection and that...

Interstellar. Despite the worm holes, neutron stars, frozen-cloud-planets, mind boggling tesseracts and a multitude of other costly special effects, Machenzie Foy’s wide and joyous smile is the only...

Guardians of the Galaxy

great fun
good music
I am Groot

Dean Spanley. A quirky, humorous exploration of father-son relationships and reincarnation.

Goes to show, to each his own. I won't argue for the value of the movie in any absolute terms. I just happen to like Cormac's stark, metaphysical dialogues and existential characters. But I...

Sorry to hear that.

I have to say I enjoyed The Counselor. I don’t think there are any main characters that are supposed to be sympathetic, perhaps the Counselor himself (played by Fassbender),...