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Sep 28 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with No Comments
American Made has got to be one of the most perverse films I’ve seen this year, and I mean it as a positive. That’s “perverse,” not “perverted,” by the way. “Perverse” in the way that what we’re watching is...
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Sep 23 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with No Comments
(I apologize for the lateness of this review. The famed 24-hour bug hit my kids in sequential order during my screening of this film, then landed straight on me.) Kingsman: The Golden Circle picks up right where Kingsman: The...
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Sep 15 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with No Comments
There’s something wonderfully basic about American Assassin. I don’t know if “basic” is the right word; “stripped-down” fits a little better. Maybe it’s the no-nonsense, no-frills feel;...
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Sep 14 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with 1 Comment
(Foreword: I went in without watching any trailers or reading any press. My recommendation: let the film have its way with you first – because that’s what it will do – then read my reaction below. What I have...
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Sep 14 |
INTERVIEWS, MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with 1 Comment
On Tuesday, September 12, 2017, I was privileged to talk with Danny Strong about his feature-length film directorial debut Rebel in the Rye (click for review), a glimpse into the world of author J.D. Salinger’s early life....
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Sep 14 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with 1 Comment
“It is the tale, not he who tells it.” — Stephen King In so many words, Columbia University professor Whit Burnett (Kevin Spacey) gives this proverb to his attentive classroom during a lecture. Well, almost attentive....
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Sep 13 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
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Provocative documentarian Vivian Prudeck (Dolly Wells), fresh off of her Helsinki Film Festival-selected Tween Jungle, has a bone to pick. This time, she’s setting her acerbic sights on the institute of marriage, and she’s...
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Aug 24 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
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(This review is dedicated to my cat Fyarl, who never failed to show my family and me he loved us. Your health problems are no more; rest easy, kittyboy.) The biggest problem with Leap! (the revised version of last year’s...
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Aug 17 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with 1 Comment
“Only in front of millions can we truly exist.” This is the tagline from Don DeLillo’s play Valparaiso (staged here in DC by Forum Theatre in 2007), which shows how one man’s simple mistake casts him into...
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Aug 17 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
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There’s not much about The Hitman’s Bodyguard you haven’t seen in some form or another in preceding films. Lead character falls from grace and spends the whole movie trying to redeem himself? Been there. Two characters...
