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The Windy Zeitgeist of Oscar Picking
by Sandra Olmsted Predicting the Oscars is like throwing darts into the future without any inkling of how the winds of zeitgeist will be blowing by the final day that…
‘Early Man’: A Wooly Mammoth of a Tale
by Sandra Olmsted In Early Man, director Nick Park and Aardman Animations, the creators of the Wallace and Gromit films among other stop-motion features, strut their stuff in a creation…
‘Winchester’: Ghostly History & Sketchy Travelogue
By Sandra Olmsted In the directing brothers Michael and Peter Spierig’s Winchester, these German-Australian filmmakers explore the history of the famed Winchester House and provide more history, if movies…
Hostiles: Western Drama
By Sandra Olmsted In writer/director Scott Cooper’s Hostiles, brutalities beget brutalities, and the tropes of the classical Western are retold with more focus on the emotional consequences to those who…
“Paddington 2”: So Bear-ably Enchanting
by Sandra Olmsted Although most sequels have a reputation of being unbearably bad, the fun, wit, good-heartedness, and excitement in writer-director Paul King’s Paddington 2 equals, if not outshines, that…
Holiday Movie Preview Part 2:
The Oscar Race Heats Up! by Sandra Olmsted The announcement of the Golden Globe nominations by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association include many of the films…
December Movie Preview, Part 1: Something for Everyone
By Sandra Olmsted Here are several holiday releases to consider seeing, depending whether you are looking for historical drama or comedy, buddy film laughs, an off-kilter sci-fi, a film for…
In ‘Coco,’ Family is Everything
New Disney Film About Family, Life, and Remembering by Sandra Olmsted Director Lee Unkrich’s animated film Coco portrays the Mexican holiday of Día de Muertos as a celebration of family…
Three Thanksgiving Weekend Films Worth Seeing
by Sandra Olmsted Lady Bird While most coming of age films aren’t very compelling because the subject matter doesn’t resonate with a board audience, director Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird provides…
Wonderstruck: Beautiful But Gives Away Twists
by Sandra Olmsted Director Todd Haynes, well-known for his striking visual storytelling, ravishingly adapts author-illustrator-screenwriter Brian Selznick’s 2011 epic fable, the illustrated novel of the same name mostly with images…
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