Medieval (orig. Jan Žižka) [2022]
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  MPAA (R)  CNS/USCCB () RogerEbert.com (1 1/2 Stars), AVClub (D+), Fr Dennis (2 1/2 Stars) IMDb listing  CNS/USCCB review LA Times (K. Walsh) review RogerEbert.com (S. Abrams) review AVClub.com (L. Monson) review Medieval (orig. Jan Žižka) [2022] [IMDb][CSFD]*(directed by Petr Jákl [IMDb][CSFD]*, screenplay by Petr Jákl [IMDb][CSFD]* and Petr Jákl, Sr [IMDb][CSFD]*, adapted from the original screenplay by Marek Dobeš [IMDb][CSFD]* and Michal Petruš [IMDb][CSFD]* is a Czech directed but English language and largely Hollywood financed film that seeks to tell the story ..read more
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The Chair [Netflix Series - 2021]
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Fr. Dennis 5/5 Stars   Netflix listing  IMDb listing  LA Times (Nancy Wang Yuen) review  NPR (Aisha Harris) review  AV Club (Arielle Bernstein) review  The Chair [TV Series -2021] (created by Amanda Peet, Annie Wyman) is a six part (30 min each, so three hours in total) television series that premiered on Aug 20, 2021 on Netflix.    The series follows the life of Ji-Yoon Kim (played by Sandra Oh), a fictionalized tenured English Literature professor at an invented liberal arts college named "Pembroke University" somewhere in the North ..read more
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My Oscar Picks 2021
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IMDb listing Official Website Dear Readers,  This year has, of course, changed (temporarily?) the whole experience of "going to the movies."   With the movie houses closed throughout most of the country / world for most of the year, most of us watched the movies through streaming services at home.    Further with so much else going on in the world, from the pandemic to several waves of civil unrest in this country, many / most of us found ourselves "distracted by events" during various times of the past year.   Nevertheless, both time and the ..read more
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2021 Sundance Film Festival
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3y ago
  After a year-long hiatus both work (I've been busy in my day job as pastor of a fun / lively multilingual parish in SoCal and confronting quite head-on the homelessness crisis [1] [2] [3] here in our part of the county / country) and pandemic related, I've decided to put a toe in the water to see I could start writing my blog again. First, I am very happy that a good number of the lovely if more obscure films that I've reviewed over the years have found their way to various streaming platforms [1] [2].  However, I'm most intrigued honestly by the door opened if perhaps ..read more
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My Oscar Picks 2020
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4y ago
IMDb listing Official Website Dear Readers, This past year, I was necessarily focused on events in our community / parish, so I didn't have a lot of time to write here.  But I did still see a fair amount of films.  We'll see how this goes next year.  I have enjoyed writing this blog.  It is possible that I'll have more time to write here again.  If not, this may be the last set of Oscar Picks that I will be publishing. Fr. Dennis BEST PICTURE Will Win -- Parasite Should Win -- Joker, Once Upon in Hollywood, Little Women Should Have Gotten Consideration -- The Farewell BEST ACTOR IN A ..read more
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Downton Abbey [2019]
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4y ago
MPAA (PG)  CNS/USCCB (A-III)  RogerEbert.com (3 1/2 Stars)  AVClub (B-)  Fr. Dennis (3 Stars) IMDb listing CNS/USCCB (J. Mulderig) review Los Angeles Times (K. Turan) review RogerEbert.com (M. Zoller-Seitz) review AVClub (C. Steele) review Downton Abbey [2019] (directed by Michael Engler characters and screenplay by Julian Fellowes) delivers what it promises ... a two hour visit to a place that millions of viewers across the English speaking world and beyond had come to know and love through the successful television series about "more tranquil times" ... when it was being debated and start ..read more
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Judy [2019]
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MPAA (PG-13)  CNS/USCCB ()  RogerEbert.com (2 Stars)  AVClub (B-)  Fr. Dennis (3 Stars) IMDb listing CNS/USCCB () review Los Angeles Times (K, Turan) review RogerEbert.com (M. Castillo) review AVClub (C. Siede) review Judy [2019] (directed by Rupert Goold, screenplay by Tom Edge based on the stageplay "The End of the Raindbow" by Peter Quilter) tells the story of the last year of Hollywood legend Judy Garland's [wikip] [IMDb] life as a troubled but still top-billed night-club singer in ... London.  She died there, of an ... accidental barbiturate overdose at 47 in 1969.  What happened to th ..read more
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Joker [2019]
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MPAA (R)  CNS/USCCB (L)  RogerEbert.com (2 Stars)  AVClub (B-)  Fr. Dennis (3 1/2 Stars) IMDb listing CNS/USCCB (K. Jensen) review Los Angeles Times (J. Chang) review RogerEbert.com (G. Kenny) review AVClub (A.A. Dowd) review  Joker [2019] (directed by Todd Phillips, screenplay by Todd Phillips and Scott Silver) offers an appropriately dark (and rather credible) origin story for The Joker [DCC] [Wikip] [IMDb] (played in this film by Joaquin Phoenix) among most unforgettable American comic book super-villains of all time. Troubled little man, Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) -- "fleck" litera ..read more
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Dora and the Lost City of Gold [2019]
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MPAA (PG)  CNS/USCCB (A-II)  RogerEbert.com (3 Stars)  AVClub (B-)  Fr. Dennis (3 1/2 Stars) IMDb listing CNS/USCCB (J. McAleer) review Los Angeles Times (K. Walsh) review RogerEbert.com (C. Lemire) review AVClub (J. Hassenger) review Dora and the Lost City of Gold [2019] (directed by James Bobin, story by Tom Wheeler, screenplay by Matthew Robinson and Nicholas Stoller based on the series Dora the Explorer [2000-] [wikip] [IMDb] created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh and Eric Weiner) is a fun family friendly movie that takes the fun / inquisitive Dora to both high school and the big scree ..read more
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette [2019]
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MPAA (PG-13)  CNS/USCCB (A-III)  RogerEbert.com (1 1/2 Stars)  AVClub (C)  Fr. Dennis (2 1/2 Stars) IMDb listing CNS/USCCB (H. Rupprecht) review Los Angeles Times (K. Turan) review RogerEbert.com (M. Castillo) review AVClub (J. Hessenger) review Where'd You Go, Bernadette [2019] (directed and screenplay cowritten by Richard Linklater along with Holly Gent and Vince Palmo, based on the novel [GR] by Maria Semple [wikip] [GR] [IMDb]), though marketed as a Comedy is NOT REALLY that.  It's a Dramedy, I suppose, but it's serious enough to not really be funny at all. The film is about Bernadette ..read more
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