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DON GIOVANNI (DVD)

By | November 2014

It is a fascinating experiment that pays off with unexpected results, breathing contemporary vitality into a very old favorite…

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DON GIOVANNI (DVD)

The opening scene of Pier Luigi Pizzi’s Sferisterio Opera Festival production of "Don Giovanni" is barely two minutes old before the viewer immediately...

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THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING

To properly appreciate this touching and illuminating account of the thirty year marriage between Stephen and Jane Hawking, it’s helpful to bear in mind...

Digital Celluloid Features

DIGITAL CELLULOID – ISSUE 231: …COOKS…

Digital Celluloid, a comic strip by artist Chris Cirillo, pokes fun at the films of today, tomorrow and yesterday. Whether it is a classic or an upcoming...

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MST3K: VOLUME XXXI: THE TURKEY DAY COLLECTION (DVD)

Alternate programming for those who don't like parades and/or football has long been a staple of the cable industry, and in the early 90s, the show...

GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – INTERNATION

Welcome to Going Bionic #242. Today we’re feasting on The Hunger Games ”Mockingjay, Part 1” and how its immense international appeal just trumped...

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THE WIND RISES (BLU-RAY)

If "The Wind Rises" is indeed Hayao Miyazaki's final film (and it seems that way), then it might be the perfect note on which to end his career. It's a...

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WHIPLASH

This is a movie about jazz for people who know fairly little about jazz. The less one knows about the history of the form, drumming, playing in a band or...

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LITTLE HOPE WAS ARSON

This review was originally published on January 17, 2014... When the Little Hope Baptist Church burned to the ground in East Texas, it rightly caused...

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THE MERV GRIFFIN SHOW 1962-1986 (DVD)

While most Americans consider Johnny Carson to be the gold standard for television talk show hosts, my personal favorite was Merv Griffin. Whereas Carson...

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PRINCESS MONONOKE (BLU-RAY)

"Princess Mononoke" was the film that introduced my family to Miyazaki's work, and what an introduction it was: This is among his finest movies, a work of...

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