Ablaze with Contradictions
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was nominated this year for seven Academy Awards, and won two, for Best Actress Frances McDormand and Best Supporting…
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Gary Oldman turns the tide in a thunderous Churchill biopic
Though only a mediocre student, the dreamy young freckle-faced lord discovered he loved literature. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill taught himself to think like Cicero…
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An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Photographer Rosamond Purcell
There’s a fine line (one might say a fine-art line) between hoarding and high genius, and photographer Rosamond Purcell has been on top of…
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Glory Days
In his latest film, The Hero, Sam Elliott plays an aging movie star facing end-of-life decisions and wishing he had handled his past in…
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Loving, Fences, Jacki…Oscar
Though 2016 was a bad year in so many ways, it was a great year for movies. And thus, “This year our annual Golden…
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Less is Most
The Manhattan Short Film Festival is organized by an Aussie film lover, Nicholas Mason, out of offices in New York City. Thus its name….
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Dog Day Afternoon, Revived
He started, as a young teen, with the five-string banjo – which isn’t where most musicians start. For every virtuoso (Earl Scruggs, Béla Fleck)…
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