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Producer-writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s haunting and shattering 1972 Swedish movie represents the quintessence of Bergman’s art, with three of his best, most famous players all at their peak, while Kari Sylwan is equally memorable. And there is […]
Jesse Plemons stars as 30-year-old American gay man David, a struggling comedy writer and indeed struggling person, fresh from breaking up with his five-year long-term boyfriend, who returns to his home town of Sacramento, California, to […]
A warm-hearted romantic comedy drama about a woman dying of cancer? Well that’s a bit of a hard sell. There are plenty of laughs in the film, sometimes polished ones, sometimes crudely constructed ones, but overall […]
Thomas Mann stars as eccentric but essentially nice 17-year-old Pittsburgh high schooler Greg, who makes parodies of classic movies with his buddy Earl (R J Cyler) but otherwise has no friends. ‘We make films,’ says Greg. […]
Ben Kingsley stars (all too briefly) as elderly Damian, a cancer-stricken dying American real estate mogul who learns of a process called ‘shedding’. He transfers his consciousness into a healthy body of a decades younger […]
Director Don Siegel’s superb, haunting 1976 character-driven Western stars John Wayne in his final role as aging gunfighter John Book, who is struck down not by a baddy’s bullet but by terminal cancer, as Wayne was […]
Screen-writer/director Clifford Odets’s earnest and moody 1944 melodrama None But the Lonely Heart provides Cary Grant with one of his only two Best Actor Oscar nominations in his long and illustrious career. In this amusing curiosity based […]