Mia Farrow‘s Darfur-related hunger strike is brave and admirable. She’s trying to get President Obama to stop “lagging” about making moves that will somehow allow the 16 aid agencies which have been kicked out of Darfur, Sudan, to return. The expulsions have been ordered by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who was indicted for war crimes in March by the International Criminal Court in The Hague. But how far will Farrow take this? What does she need to see happen?
To my great surprise and delight, Christy Hall‘s Daddio, which I was remiss in not seeing during last year’s Telluride...
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7:45 pm: Okay, the initial light-hearted section (repartee, wedding, hospital, afterlife Joey Pants, healthy diet) was enjoyable, but Jesus, when...
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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Unless Part Two of Kevin Costner‘s Horizon (Warner Bros., 8.16) somehow improves upon the sluggish initial installment and delivers something...
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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Posted on 11.27.23: “One thing that’s always bothered me about Virginia Wolff is that George and Martha’s young guests —...
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