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Tár |
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The Banshees of Inisherin |
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Lyle, Lyle Crocodile |
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Babylon |
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“All is vanity... There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.” — Ecclesiastes I hated this one, but I also loved it and I will be talking about this one on KROC.
Forty Quarts of Liquor Nearly a century before Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey shamed Hollywood spawning the #MeToo and Time’s-Up movements, popular film star Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle — second at the box office only to Charlie Chaplin — stood trial for the murder of the young starlet Virginia Rappe. Some medical experts, and the court of public opinion, concluded the girl died in a sexual assault after a weekend of consuming illegal alcohol, her bladder having ruptured under Fatty’s 266 pounds.
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Ticket to Paradise |
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Emancipation |
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Thirteen Lives |
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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On |
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White Noise |
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She Said |
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Call Me Miss Cleo |
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out
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Till |
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story |
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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.jpg) |
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The Good Nurse |
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The Chosen |
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The Fabelmans |
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Mickey: The Story of a Mouse |
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Pinocchio |
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The Return of Tanya Tucker |
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Punch 9 for Harold Washington |
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The U.S. and the Holocaust |
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Where the Crawdads Sing |
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Still Working 9 to 5 |
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Dean Martin: King of Cool |
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My Son Hunter |
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Mister Candid Camera |
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Bullet Train |
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MOVIE GUY Sometimes too much to unpack in real time but otherwise a wild romp. Fun cameos by Channing Tatum and Ryan Reynolds and a robust ensemble cast notwithstanding poorly cast Michael Shannon and a distracting Sandra Bullock. I talked about this one in detail on KROC. |
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The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent |
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Dobbs: Pre- and Post |
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Elvis |
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Top Gun: Maverick |
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MOVIE GUY The movie we need right now! I talked about this one in detail on KROC. (06/22) |
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The Bob’s Burger Movie |
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Home Team |
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2000 Mules |
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MOVIE GUY A few years ago I walked into the funeral parlor to pay my respect to my uncle. But rather than weep, I laughed out loud because my wisecracking cousin had put an “I voted” sticker on my uncle’s lapel. Having been born and raised in Chicago, vote fraud is a given, and like the mob who collects on every cement delivery, it’s simply the cost of doing business. (Yea, it’s kind of depressing to accept, but the alternative is to live in denial.) Worse, election shenanigans cannot possibly be limited to Chicago and it would be beyond naivety, in fact, patently dishonest, to claim no fraud exists. The issue, then, isn’t whether fraud exists. It most certainly does. The issue is whether vote fraud has been significant enough to swing an election. That’s what Dinesh D’Souza’s 2000 Mules attempts to prove with damning cell phone geotracking data mapped to swing state-certified video footage depicting suspicious people depositing multiple ballots into drop boxes, after which several of these so-called ‘mules’ remove their surgical gloves and toss them into nearby trash cans. I talked about this one in detail on KROC. |
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George Carlin’s American Dream |
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Mayberry Man |
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For those under 65 it’s impossible to imagine what an
entertainment powerhouse was Danny Thomas. Of course
he most notably founded the St. Luke’s Children’s
Hospital in Memphis (Elvis was an early supporter and
donated his yacht) under the ideal that “No child should die in
the dawn of life.”
But the show for which he is
most famous is his eponymous show a/k/a Make Room for
Daddy. One of the episodes was actually a pilot for
his most successful television series, The Andy
Griffith Show, and its plot went thus: Thomas’
character gets pinched passing through Mayberry where
his dismissive holier-than-though showbiz attitude
clashes with the homespun sheriff. Thomas wants to
pay the fine and move on but Andy wants him to learn
a lesson so he jails Thomas. As the kooky cast come and
go through the courtroom, he gradually appreciates
this slower life. Family-friendly Mayberry Man
essentially parallels that pilot. Big Deal Hollywood
actor Chris Stone (Brett Varvel) is clocked at 105 MPH and is
sentenced to spend the week at the region’s
“MayberryFest.” He’s initially indignant and
condescending until he starts to meet some of the
locals playing their favorite characters among them
Barney and Floyd the Barber who ultimately win him
over. All this is accomplished with
absolutely zero cuss words. It’s also curiously
accomplished without a cameo by Sheriff Taylor,
himself. Hmmm... Good harmless fun.
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The Bad Guys |
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MOVIE GUY No one is beyond redemption, except maybe those jerks behind me who couldn’t keep their popcorn-holes shut for even 5 minutes during my screening of DreamWorks’ The Bad Guys, based on the popular book series of the same name. Here a cabal of storybook bad guys led by The Big Bad Wolf perpetrate heist after heist and generally relish in their evilness... until, that is, one of them learns his tail wags more robustly when he accidentally does good. Often reminiscent of more clever films like The Fantastic Mr. Fox and personal favorite Hoodwinked, The Bad Guys is not without merit but may not be enough for not fans of the Scholastic series. “Would you like butter on your popcorn?" No, but here’s $20, please put mucilage on theirs. I talked about this one in detail on KROC. |
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Father Stu |
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MOVIE GUY A remarkably necessary and inspiring story of finding faith whose wide-release status would not be possible without Mark Wahlberg and Mel Gibson. Refreshingly, there have been only a few critics of this true story and of their aspersions perhaps Bishop Sheen said it best, “There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.” I talked about this one in detail on KROC. |
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American Crime Story: Impeachment |
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MOVIE GUY Sarah Paulson and Sterling K. Brown did an amazing job in 2016’s American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson. Paulson is back, this time as Linda Tripp in season three’s American Crime Story: Impeachment. Clive Owen and Edie Falco are Bill and Hillary in this 10-hour tale that humanizes Monica Lewinsky (Beanie Feldstein) and introduces much needed context to Tripp’s backstory most of which the American people have gotten only from late night talk show monologue jokes and SNL skits. Well executed but frustrating to be reminded what POSs were the Clintons especially towards women trying hold power accountable. I talked about this one in detail on KROC. |
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When We Were Bullies |
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MOVIE GUY Filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt’s journey to reconnect with those involved in an incident that’s haunted him for fifty years: that time his entire grade school class chased-down and collectively physically bullied a student. Their teacher then called the class animals but demurs when asked about it now admitting there was probably one such schoolyard offense every year. Wow. Unfortunately, while the premise is intriguing, the film is without closure. I talked about this one in detail on KROC. |
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The Automat |
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For most of the 20th century the automat, a diner-setting fitted only with food vending windows, was a fixture both in large cities like New York and Philadelphia as well as in pop culture. The Automat director Lisa Hurwitz introduces (or re-introduces) these ubiquitous eateries with the help of the likes of Mel Brooks, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Colin Powell recounting their own visceral and gastric connections to these cafeterias who at their peak fed nearly 800,000 people per day. One of the more interesting and enjoyable documentaries of the last decade and precisely what a good documentary should be: the presentation and preservation of a unique facet of our shared culture. I talked about this one in detail on KROC. |
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Roe v. Wade |
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MOVIE GUY The timing of Jon Voight’s latest, Roe v. Wade, is noteworthy as this very moment (March, 2022) the U.S. Supreme Court is deliberating at which point after #SCIENCE has determined a new life has begun is it socially permissible to terminate it. Voight (Midnight Cowboy, Anaconda) is Chief Justice Warren Berger who helmed the court which included former Mayo Clinic attorney Harry Blackmun and the Med City earns a mention in the film for that and its incubation of the decision which Blackmun penned here. The film dramatizes the machinations of the case which began as a specious grassroots movement before reaching the chambers where the pragmaticism of the issue seemed more critical than its constitutional foundation. Frequent reminders of its low production budget notwithstanding, Roe v. Wade is unlikely to change minds even thought central characters in the actual saga did. More remarkable is the eclectic cast which includes Jamie Kennedy (Scream, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment), Corbin Bernsen (L. A. Law), Steve Guttenberg (Cocoon, Three Men and a Baby), and Joey Lawrence (“Whoa!”). |
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