It wasn't the greatest love story ever televised; but until that one comes around this one will have to do. I'll be surprised if it doesn't propel Leo Woodall into stardom, however.
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Dune: Part Two 2024
It's been 55 years since I first read the books, so pardon me if the plot is a little hard to follow. Actually, in terms of production this film rates 5-stars. However, in terms of plot it suffers a bit from being the middle film in an unfinished trilogy. Does this matter? Not when one is mesmerized by the IMAX scope and fury as it unfolds. Hopefully I'll be around for the conclusion of Villeneuve's masterpiece (at my age, not a certainty.) However, I am certain that film #3 will be fantastic and finally rate that rare 5th star.
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El Topo 1970
The New York Times contacted me today for background about my review of El Topo that was published in the L.A. Free Press on April 23, 1971. They provided me with a scan of the article, and I'm reposting it here. Maybe 43 years later its verbiage is a little embarrassing; but I stand by what I wrote back then. How often do we get an opportunity to view what we thought about films through the prism of the far…
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Joy 2015
David O. Russell's popularity and reputation for enlightened whimsy eludes me. I can't blame the actors in what has become his "stock company" for my dislike of this film. Rather it must be Russell's mechanistic, by-the-numbers script filled with neurotic characters acting nonsensically. I know I'm out of step with audiences here; so forget that I ever tried to review this film.