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Dec 13 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with No Comments
Award-winning writer/director Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) stuns with his adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk, making plain the struggle of young African-Americans in the early 1970s. Tackling societal...
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Dec 12 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with No Comments
I’m having a hard time reconciling my thoughts on Mary Poppins Returns. This review has been two weeks in the making, with numerous starts and “delete everything!”s, and I’m at an impasse. Did I like the film? Well…...
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Dec 5 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with No Comments
Life is messy, scripted as it proceeds minute by minute. Plans are made but broken by the unintended; rarely do plans ever come to any kind of satisfying fruition. All around us are people walking the same insane, hectic path the...
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Dec 3 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with No Comments
Picture a film with the seriousness of Merchant-Ivory displayed with Stanley Kubrick’s reality-warping cinematography and spiked with a streak of the kind of dark comedy which made you bark shocked laughter when you saw what...
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Nov 26 |
COMEDY REVIEW, MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with No Comments
Television star and comedian Christopher Titus has spent his post-Fox TV-sitcom life grinding it out on the road, offering his scorching takes on life and love to audiences across America and beyond. We’ve heard him discuss his...
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Nov 19 |
INTERVIEWS, MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with No Comments
On November 7, 2018, I sat down with directors Phil Johnston and Rich Moore to talk about their new film, Ralph Breaks The internet, a sequel to 2012’s Wreck-It Ralph. Also sitting down with us were Leslie Combemale of...
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Nov 19 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with No Comments
(News broke of Stan Lee’s passing as I sat down to write this. RIP, good sir. “Excelsior” forever and always.) Revisiting 2012’s Wreck-It Ralph prior to viewing its sequel Ralph Breaks The Internet (in theaters November...
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Nov 8 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with 1 Comment
Full disclosure: I’m positive my parents and sisters made me watch the 1966 “How The Grinch Stole Christmas” special when I was a kid, but I cannot remember it. Having two children of my own, I’ve been planning on...
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Nov 1 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with No Comments
In the collected essays titled Suspiria de Profundis (translated: Sighs of the Depths), author Thomas De Quincey writes of three companions for Levana, the Roman goddess of childbirth. Of one of the three, he writes: “The...
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Oct 25 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with No Comments
I’ve rated Bohemian Rhapsody three stars for each reason you absolutely should see this movie: the performances, the surprisingly effective recontextualization of established Queen songs (as both a plus and a negative), and for...
