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Jun 12 |
INTERVIEWS, MOVIE REVIEWS, NEW on DVD AND BLU-RAY |
Eddie Pasa |
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On March 17, 2017, I was pleased to have sat in on a roundtable interview with Danny Boyle, a director whose 1996 film Trainspotting changed the way I looked at movies. (For my personal take on Trainspotting, click here.) When I...
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Jan 16 |
COMEDY REVIEW, MOVIE REVIEWS, NEW on DVD AND BLU-RAY |
Eddie Pasa |
with 1 Comment
“If you are a parent, tonight’s show is therapy; if you don’t have kids, tonight’s show is NNNNINETY minutes of birth control… You’re welcome. YOU. ARE. WELCOME.” Bringing it hard to the masses since his eponymous...
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Dec 19 |
MOVIE REVIEWS, NEW on DVD AND BLU-RAY |
Michael Parsons |
with No Comments
We were all agape at “The Miracle on the Hudson”, when an Airbus A320 landed in the water with not a single casualty among its 155 passengers and crew. A bird strike at 2,000 feet caused dual engine failure and subsequent...
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Dec 19 |
MOVIE REVIEWS, NEW on DVD AND BLU-RAY |
Michael Parsons |
with No Comments
What do you get when you cross an animator with a director who specializes in raunchy adult humor? Not “Sausage Party”, believe it or not, but Warner Animation’s “Storks”, a kid-friendly yarn that is also funny enough...
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Dec 17 |
MOVIE REVIEWS, NEW on DVD AND BLU-RAY |
Michael Parsons |
with 1 Comment
A beautiful expansion and somehow first ever feature adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s book, “The Little Prince” is my favorite animated pic of 2016 (second would be “Kubo and the Two Strings”). The...
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Sep 8 |
MOVIE REVIEWS, NEW on DVD AND BLU-RAY |
Eddie Pasa |
with No Comments
Living in and around Washington, DC can make you tired of everything having to do with politics, politicians, the media, social media, and the soundbite-driven attention spans of the area’s constituents. No one reads anything...
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May 25 |
MOVIE REVIEWS, NEW on DVD AND BLU-RAY |
Michael Parsons |
with No Comments
Written by Elias (“Gut”) and directed by Nick Basile (the documentary “American Carny”), this psychological thriller finds a prematurely washed-up model battling some pretty formidable inner demons during the widespread...
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Nov 12 |
COMMENTARY, MOVIE REVIEWS, NEW on DVD AND BLU-RAY |
Michael Parsons |
with No Comments
Perhaps the most wildly diverse portfolio ever to emerge from Hollywood belongs to Dalton Trumbo, the Oscar-winning screenwriter who also cranked out more B-movie scripts than Ed Wood. But the paradox that is his résumé —...
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Oct 16 |
MOVIE REVIEWS, NEW on DVD AND BLU-RAY |
Eddie Pasa |
with 1 Comment
On the way to the local screening of Steve Jobs, I found myself musing about the pervasion of Apple products. When I was a kid, few people had Apples or Macintoshes; my grade school had Commodore 64s, and my dad had this weird...
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Oct 6 |
MOVIE REVIEWS, NEW on DVD AND BLU-RAY |
Michael Parsons |
with 2 Comments
“You are not a wolf”, imparts enigmatic operative Alejandro to relatively green FBI agent Kate Macer, as if she didn’t already know. “Sicario” is composed of wolves, and the precarious realm in...
