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Thursday, April 4, 2024
Today’s “Dish of the Day” has a brief review of mine that was inspired by a post in one of the film related Facebook chat rooms. This includes the Cinema Cafe group (all readers are encouraged to join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/902349343110685).
The Out-of-Towners (1970)
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Sunday, February 18, 2024
How Quentin Tarantino’s “One of the Worst Decades in Hollywood…” Was Actually One of Its Greatest
Part 2: Where the filmmaker and I, more or less, agree, the ‘80s
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Today’s “Dish of the Day” has a review of 2015’s Sicario, inspired by a post in one of the film related Facebook chat rooms. This includes the Cinema Cafe group (all readers are encouraged to join here).
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Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Today’s “Dish of the Day” has a brief review of 1977’s Eraserhead, inspired by a post in one of the film related Facebook chat rooms.
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Friday, October 27, 2023
Recently in our film related chat room (readers are welcome to join here) a member made a post about his response to watching The Exorcist (1973).
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Friday, September 15, 2023
Recently, in our film related chat room (readers are welcome to join here), I got hammered pretty good for criticising Steven Spielberg’s often employed overly sentimental approach to cinematic storytelling, specifically as it relates to the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001).
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Tuesday, August 29, 2023
How One of Quentin Tarantino’s Worst Decades in Hollywood Was Actually One of Its Greatest Part 1: An Introduction
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Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Recently in a Writers related chat room (readers are welcome to join our Cinema related room here) a member asked about “… the ARTISTIC appeal of Citizen Kane, perhaps using Casablanca as a point of reference.”
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Monday, July 10, 2023
Recently in our film related chat room (readers are welcome to join here) a member created what I considered to be a “well articulated and fascinating” post extolling the ‘70s for advancing
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Sunday, June 25, 2023
Recently in our film related chat room (readers are welcome to join here) a member made a post that quoted Oliver Stone who was reported to have said about the film John Wick: Chapter 4,
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Friday, June 23, 2023
Today’s “Dish of the Day” has a review of Steven Spielberg’s Peter Pan adventure fantasy Hook (1991)
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Monday, May 22, 2023
The Cinema Cafe has a chat room on Facebook that readers are welcome to join here. On Mondays, we have a movie trivia game called "Match-up Mondays" where the object is to name the common denominator between all of the captures provided and also identify each of the films pictured.
Treasure Trivia: Quiz #9
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Thursday, May 4, 2023
Today, in our Facebook chat room (all readers are welcome to join here), a member asked: “Whose acting style do you like the most among these 3 fine actresses…
… Huppert, Winslet or Blanchett?”
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Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Today’s “Dish of the Day” has a review of 2002’s Minority Report, inspired by a post in one of the film related Facebook chat rooms. This includes the Cinema Cafe group (all readers are encouraged to join here).
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Thursday, April 27, 2023
“Which one is he playing now?” (Acclaimed writer Somerset Maugham visiting the set of MGM’s 1941 remake of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring Spencer Tracy).
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Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Recently, in our Facebook chat room (all readers are welcome to join here), someone posted a piece on author James Ellroy’s dissatisfaction with the 1997 film L.A. Confidential made from his 1990 novel.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Recently, in our Facebook chat room (all readers are welcome to join here), a member asked who, famous or unknown, critic or fan, might have seen the most films in his/her lifetime…
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