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Holdovers–No Home for the Holidays

Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers is a film in the style of “Dead Poets Society”. Set in a New England prep school, Barton Preparatory,  sometime in the 1970s,  the predominantly white students dominate what the school administration can do.  A curmudgeonly, lonely  instructor, Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti), draws the...

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Woman in the Wall–Imprisonment in  the Magdalene Laundries

Set up as a six-episode thriller, Woman in the Wall is based on the horrific exploitation of teenage girls and young women in “the homes for unwed mothers” in Ireland.  The scandal of the Magdalene Laundries has damaged the Catholic Church for over a century and a half.   This fictionalized account focuses on Lorna Brady...

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My Top 12 Movies and Series for 2023

While we are all going into our fourth year of Covid, many of us craved new content to watch, and felt like there weren’t as  many good movies and series to choose from.  Certainly, the screenwriters’ strike contributed to the dearth of content.  Well, this year I still have twelve to recommend.  Some are less well-known...

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