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The Kissing Booth 2 Directed by Vince MarcelloWritten by Vince Marcello, Jay S. Arnold The review: Good gravy, don’t teenage girls deserve story logic like teenage boys do?* Nothing in this film [...]

Love Simple Directed by Mark von SternbergWritten by Mark von Sternberg The review: When you have two characters who are both lying to make themselves look better to the person they like it [...]

Once Upon a Time in America Directed by Sergio LeoneWritten by Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Barnardi, Enrico Medioli, Franco Arcalli, Franco Ferrini, Sergio Leone. (And this, my friends, is where [...]

You’ve Got Mail Directed by Nora EphronWritten by Nora & Delia Ephron adapted from Miklós László’s play The review: I didn’t like this in 1998 and the central problem remained in 2020.* Thus, [...]

The Cotton Club Encore Directed by Francis Ford CoppolaWritten by William Kennedy and Francis Ford Coppola The review: I’ve not seen the original, but this encore version has a not-interesting [...]

The Beat Beneath My Feet Directed by John WilliamsWritten by Michael Müller The review: Only because of Luke Perry did I watch this and though there is ample Luke Perry,* I was not blessed with a [...]

(and other handy things to know about singing) Max Minghella’s Teen Spirit is so very blah that if not for the electrifying performance at the end, it would not at all be worth watching.* Elle [...]

Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight features and masterful performance by Heath Ledger and is a nihilistic movie I despise.* While every actor involved is excellent** I do not think that plot [...]