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    <title>JSA: Joint Security Area Blu-ray Review: Death on the DMZ</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2021://2.7169</id>

    <published>2021-02-23T18:20:27Z</published>
    <updated>2021-02-23T19:47:56Z</updated>

    <summary>Chan-wook Park&apos;s early film about a murder on the Korean border is one of the filmmaker&#8217;s most mainstream thrillers.</summary>
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        <name>Kent Conrad</name>
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        <![CDATA[There's only one place along the Korean DMZ that soldiers from the North and South stand across from one another, able to look each other in the eye. The Joint Security Area is a small piece of land south of the village of Panmunjom where armed soldiers on both sides patrol, and keep guardhouses over an open bridge that crosses the Sachong River, which was maintained for prisoner exchanges. Though it has not been used for that purpose since the late '60s, it still needs to be guarded. JSA: Joint Security Area is the story of an incident on the bridge. Three men on the North Korean side have been shot, two dead, and a South Korean soldier has nearly been killed trying to cross the river to get back to his own side. It's the worst kind of international incident, and it requires a subtle diplomatic touch to investigate. The investigation is under the purview of the Neutral Nations camp (the Swiss and the Swedes) and they happen to have an ace in the hole: a Swedish national with a Korean father who has never before been to Korea. She might be able to maintain a sense of neutrality]]>
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    <title>Book Review: Vision &amp; the Scarlet Witch: The Saga of Wanda and Vision</title>
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    <published>2021-02-23T04:08:00Z</published>
    <updated>2021-02-23T10:23:17Z</updated>

    <summary>Tying in with Disney+&apos;s WandaVision, the two limited series from the 1980s are what make the book worth owning.</summary>
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        <name>Gordon S. Miller</name>
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        <![CDATA[Tying in with Disney+'s WandaVision, Marvel has repackaged some of the duo's early adventures in Vision &amp;amp; the Scarlet Witch: The Saga of Wanda and Vision, which has cover artwork by Alex Ross. The book collects Giant-Size Avengers #4 (1963), Vision and the Scarlet Witch (1982) #1-4, Vision and the Scarlet Witch (1985) #1-12, and West Coast Avengers # 2, the story of which falls between the first two issues of the 1985 limited series. Written by Steve Englehart and drawn by Don Heck (pencils) and John Tartag (inks), Giant-Size Avengers #4 is the end of a storyline about the search for the Celestial Madonna, who will marry the Eldest Cotati and to give birth the Celestial Messiah according to prophecy. She is either Mantis or Moondragoon, both raised by priests to develop a perfect human woman to bond with the alien race. It feels like the reader has missed quite a bit. Interspersed is a subplot about Vision rescuing Wanda from the sorcerer Dorammu, driven by heroism as well as love. The Vision reminds readers of his origin involving the android body of the original Human Torch and the brain patterns of the deceased (for now) Wonder Man (Simon]]>
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    <title>Rowan &amp; Martin&apos;s Laugh-In: The Complete Series DVD Series: Very Interesting and Very Funny</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2021://2.7167</id>

    <published>2021-02-21T23:47:00Z</published>
    <updated>2021-02-22T02:59:16Z</updated>

    <summary>Is The Complete Series a must have for fans and a worthy blind buy for classic TV/comedy fans. You bet your bippy it is.</summary>
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        <name>Gordon S. Miller</name>
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        <![CDATA[After initially being available as an exclusive from Time Life in June 2017, the landmark variety show Rowan &amp;amp; Martin's Laugh-In: The Complete Series can now be purchased through retail locations. The 37-disc set presents 140 unedited episodes that aired over six seasons from January 22, 1968 to March 12, 1973. As I mentioned in my review of The Complete First Season, &amp;#8220;The show's format, an anarchic twist on the variety show, was well established at the onset [in the pilot, which aired to great success as a special on Sept. 9, 1967] with humor that pushed the era's boundaries and seemed to appeal to a younger, hipper audience with its sex and drug references. The program featured sketches that offered variations on gags and outlandish scenes filmed on location. The humor of the Marx Brothers and Ernie Kovacs and the editing techniques the French New Wave are clear influences.&amp;#8221; The special was hosted by the comedy team of straight man Dan Rowan and dummy Dick Martin. They were joined by cast members who went on to become household names: Ruth Buzzi, Judy Carne, Henry Gibson, Arte Johnson, and Jo Anne Worley. Goldie Hawn and announcer Gary Owens came on]]>
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    <title>Chop Shop Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Miracle of Independent Cinema</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2021://2.7166</id>

    <published>2021-02-21T01:47:00Z</published>
    <updated>2021-02-21T04:48:00Z</updated>

    <summary>A tough, but absolutely profound portrait of the complex bond of siblings on the outskirts of society.</summary>
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        <![CDATA[With his wonderful 2005 Man Push Cart, filmmaker Ramin Bahrani beautifully captured the grim circumstances of being an immigrant in America. However, he went even further into his creative peak with his 2007 landmark Chop Shop, which is perhaps the more superior of the two. Bahrani successfully delves into the harsh realities of life that can have no sympathy or remorse for even the most innocent of people: the young. Showing a slice of life that rarely gets the forefront of cinema, the film depicts the life of twelve-year-old Ale (Alejandro Polanco), who is wise beyond his years. Parentless, he learns how to grow up pretty fast, where he hustles on a daily basis in a neighborhood chop shop in Queens, New York, in order to make life a little more promising for himself and his older sister Isamar (Isamar Gonzales). He's able to get her a job working in a food cart; a job that she doesn't particularly care for but does it anyway. Besides that, he makes money in selling bootleg DVDs and candy on subways with his best friend. He is also able to purchase a truck (albeit decreipt), so that he and Isamar can start their]]>
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    <title>Man Push Cart Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Essential Cinema</title>
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    <published>2021-02-19T07:04:00Z</published>
    <updated>2021-02-19T07:22:55Z</updated>

    <summary>A bleak, beautifully simple, and emotionally involving portrait of the immigrant experience.</summary>
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        <name>Davy</name>
        <uri>http://cinemasentries.com/writer/davy/</uri>
        
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        <![CDATA[Foreigners in a foreign land express the often grim, depressing, but sometimes hopeful studies of immigrants desperate to survive a new existence in America. Being of a different culture while trying to adjust to a new way of life has been depicted a lot in film, but in the hands of director Ramin Bahrani, you're able to get the viewpoint of a very un-glamorous character too rarely seen in film (independent or otherwise). This is the essence of Man Push Cart, a quietly devastating post-9/11 depiction of the everyday human condition. Ahmad (Ahmad Razvi) is a former pop sensation from Pakistan and now widower living (or struggling) in downtown Manhattan who works as a vendor of a food cart that he's trying to buy. He wakes up at 3 am every morning, pushing (or pulling) the cart (and exhausting himself) all around the city, selling coffee and bagels on a day-to-day basis. He is working to get an apartment for himself and his young son, whom he is estranged from. It all seems mundane, until a glimmer of hope in the form of a businessman gives him a leg up. He also seems to form a romance with a cute]]>
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    <title>TV Review: Allen v. Farrow: She Said, Then &amp; Now</title>
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    <published>2021-02-19T06:03:00Z</published>
    <updated>2021-02-19T06:14:41Z</updated>

    <summary>Accessing police reports, evidence, private audio and video recordings that were kept private from the public at the time, mixed with interviews, family photos and video, the filmmakers present a compelling case for Farrow&apos;s side.</summary>
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        <name>Elizabeth Periale</name>
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        <![CDATA[ &amp;#8220;No matter what you think you know, it&amp;#8217;s just the tip of the iceberg.&amp;#8221; - Dylan Farrow In a new four-part documentary, which begins airing on HBO and HBO Max this Sunday, Allen v. Farrow examines the sensational sexual abuse case from the 1990s where iconic filmmaker Woody Allen was accused by his longtime partner Mia Farrow of molesting their seven-year-old daughter Dylan. At the time the case was everywhere, in print and television. Everyone took a side - did one believe the veteran filmmaker, responsible for comedy classics like Hannah and Her Sisters, Sleeper, and Annie Hall - could he be capable of such a thing? Or should Mia Farrow, acclaimed actress of Rosemary's Baby and twelve films made with Woody, mother of seven, be the one to be believed? Directors Kirby Dick (2005's Twist of Faith and 2012's The Invisible War) and Amy Ziering (2002's Derrida and 2020's On the Record) take viewers on a well-documented journey where that question should no longer hover in the air. Accessing police reports, evidence, private audio and video recordings that were kept private from the public at the time, mixed with interviews, family photos and video, the filmmakers present a]]>
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    <title>Book Review: The Complete Dick Tracy, Volume 27: 1972-1974 by Chester Gould</title>
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    <published>2021-02-18T23:30:00Z</published>
    <updated>2021-02-19T02:30:07Z</updated>

    <summary>The outstanding artwork and familiarity of the core characters kept my interest.</summary>
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        <name>Gordon S. Miller</name>
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        <![CDATA[As the Library of American Comics and IDW Publishing continue to collect The Complete Dick Tracy by Chester Gould, Volume 26 presents the dailies and Sunday strips from September 25, 1972 through to July 6, 1974. The book has an introductory essay by consulting editor Max Allan Collins, &amp;#8220;I Hope We've Heard the Last of Peanutbutter,&amp;#8221; which covers Collins' relationship with Gould and commentary on the strips, and concludes with contributing editor Jeff Kersten's &amp;#8220;...the funny pages of the history books...,&amp;#8221; about Gould's political subtext, particularly in relation to the Watergate scandal. This Volume opens with an epilogue of a previous case with young &amp;#8220;Peanutbutter&amp;#8221; having just been rescued from kidnappers. The title of Collins' essay is a line a dialogue from the Chief and a sentiment that Liz, Junior, and I imagine more than a few readers like myself agreed with as he is annoying. Junior gets especially agitated when &amp;#8220;Peanutbutter&amp;#8221; goes gaga over Moon Maid. &amp;#8220;Peanutbutter&amp;#8221; was likely an attempt to pull in young readers with a young character, but he's so unappealing I can't imagine it was successful. The first complete case Tracy and his team deal with involve armored truck robbers. They have a great getaway]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Pretty in Pink (35th Anniversary) Movie Review: Still Pretty, Still (Very) Pink</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2021://2.7158</id>

    <published>2021-02-18T01:44:00Z</published>
    <updated>2021-02-18T04:44:29Z</updated>

    <summary>Hit soundtrack, &apos;80s nostalgia, and ideal casting aside, does the cult classic hold up after a quarter of a century? Yes.</summary>
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        <![CDATA[Pretty in Pink turns 35 this year. It was a peak '80s film - featuring teen romance, members of the &quot;Brat Pack,&quot; evil yuppies, and a soundtrack voted one of the 25 best soundtracks of all time by Rolling Stone. Fun facts about the movie's soundtrack: the title song, which was already a hit by the Psychedelic Furs from their 1981 album Talk Talk Talk was re-recorded specifically for the film. Echo &amp;amp; the Bunnymen's &quot;Bring On the Dancing Horses&quot; was also recorded specifically for the film, as was Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's &quot;If You Leave,&quot; which was the big hit song from the movie, reaching #4 in May 1986 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. Teen love triangle, classic '80s version, L-R: Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Jon Cryer Pretty in Pink transcends its fairly conventional poor girl/rich boy Cinderella story with winning performances by a great cast led by Molly Ringwald as quirky boy-magnet Andie. She is an idealized version of that strange-dressing, awkward, but wicked-smart girl that you remember (or may have even been) in high school who is only appreciated by her closest friends - in this case the irrepressible Duckie (Jon Cryer), who she has been]]>
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    <title>San Francisco Blu-ray Review: The King of the Barbary Coast Finds His Queen</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2021://2.7163</id>

    <published>2021-02-16T19:51:00Z</published>
    <updated>2021-02-23T04:05:59Z</updated>

    <summary>An Old Hollywood disaster epic with star power a-plenty gets a sharp Blu-ray transfer.  </summary>
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        <![CDATA[The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 is the backdrop for this handsomely mounted 1936 MGM production, which spends far too much time setting up a soapy melodrama. Beyond the quake itself, though, the lead performances are the show. Back when the term &amp;#8220;movie star&amp;#8221; meant something, Clark Gable plays Blackie Norton, a saloon owner who hires chaste Mary Blake (Jeanette Macdonald), a poor parson&amp;#8217;s daughter, to sing in his nightclub act. Soon, they are an item and she&amp;#8217;s the toast of the Barbary Coast; but, as Blackie gains political ambitions, Mary lands in a tug of war between him and his business rival and political foe, Jack Burley (Jack Holt). Burley doesn&amp;#8217;t sweep her off her feet, but he does run the Tivoli Opera House, at which he secures top billing for her. Though Mary is indebted to Blackie, many regard his venue as a place for cheap and disreputable entertainment. He also loses points with Mary when she sees the suggestive posters used to promote her. Between her wish to sing at the Tivoli and the coarse way he treats her as a business proposition, Mary can&amp;#8217;t be faulted for shifting allegiances. As the film&amp;#8217;s moral compass, Father Tim]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Fear of Rain Blu-ray Giveaway</title>
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    <published>2021-02-16T18:49:00Z</published>
    <updated>2021-02-16T22:34:02Z</updated>

    <summary>Written and directed by Castille Landon, Fear of Rain is a terrifying thriller that takes you inside Rain&apos;s mind as she confronts the frightening hallucinations of her imagination to determine whether there is real horror hiding right next door.</summary>
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        <name>Staff</name>
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        <![CDATA[Cinema Sentries has teamed up with Lionsgate Home Entertainment to award one lucky reader a Fear of Rain Blu-ray Combo. It is currently available to own via purchase on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital . For those wanting to learn more, read from the publicity notes below: For teenager Rain Burroughs (Madison Iseman), a diagnosis with schizophrenia means that every day is a struggle as she tries to figure out which of the disturbing images, harrowing voices, and traumatic feelings she experiences are real and which are all in her mind. But when Rain insists against her parents&amp;#8217; (Katherine Heigl and Harry Connick, Jr.) advice that the shadows and cries from her neighbor&amp;#8217;s attic are hiding a dark secret, she enlists help from Caleb (Israel Broussard), the charmingly awkward new boy at school - who himself may not be real. Written and directed by Castille Landon (After We Fell, After Ever Happy), Fear of Rain is a terrifying thriller that takes you inside Rain&amp;#8217;s mind as she confronts the frightening hallucinations of her imagination to determine whether there is real horror hiding right next door. &amp;#8220;I wanted to create an empathetic, layered, and beautiful character in Rain. Rain has a fractured]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Lovecraft Country: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Review: We Are Not Monsters</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2021://2.7162</id>

    <published>2021-02-16T06:03:10Z</published>
    <updated>2021-02-23T04:03:52Z</updated>

    <summary>Slipshod storytelling mars an otherwise nifty twist on old pulp fiction. </summary>
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        <name>Jack Cormack</name>
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        <![CDATA[The first five minutes of HBO&amp;#8217;s adventure horror series, Lovecraft Country (Season One), tells you everything you need to know about it. Sitting at the back of a bus in 1950s America, Atticus &amp;#8220;Tic&amp;#8221; Freeman (Jonathan Majors), a Korean War vet, dreams of ball hitter Jackie Robinson taking on a battlefield of laser-shooting aliens and Lovecraftian beasts. Tic wakes, the bus breaks down, and he and a fellow black passenger must walk to the closest station. Reality and surrealness co-exist in a landscape that swarms with bigoted monsters. As it began airing last summer, Lovecraft Country was very much of the moment. Racial animus in America had reached a boiling point, convincing this writer that not only are the injustices of the past far from behind us, we may never rise above them. I hope to God we do, of course. And Lovecraft Country is, to its credit, as hopeful as it is outraged&amp;#8212;horrified by the legacy of an all-pervasive, systemic racism, yet boldly appropriating the pulp tropes and narratives of 20th Century America to its cause. For this reason, Lovecraft Country&amp;#8212;adapted from the 2016 Matt Ruff novel by showrunner Misha Green&amp;#8212;feels urgent. Sadly, even though it has enough momentum]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Mandabi Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Unexpected Money Leads to Lots of Problems</title>
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    <published>2021-02-16T05:26:00Z</published>
    <updated>2021-02-16T05:32:26Z</updated>

    <summary>Ousmane Sembène&apos;s second feature film gets a stacked release from Criterion Collection.</summary>
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        <name>David Wangberg</name>
        <uri>http://cinemasentries.com/writer/david-wangberg/</uri>
        
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        <![CDATA[One of the things that Ousmane Sembène&amp;#8217;s second feature film does that so few films do is, take lesser-known actors and place them in a movie to capture the authenticity of its story. Sure, Chloe Zhao has done that recently with movies like The Rider, but it&amp;#8217;s a concept that rarely happens. And when it does, it feels more real to the point where you question whether you are watching a movie or a documentary. Mandabi, translated to The Money Order, is exactly that kind of movie. When Mandabi was originally released in 1968, the majority of the people in the movie had never acted prior or had only acted in one other film. And after its release, they didn&amp;#8217;t participate in much else, if anything, beyond that. Sembène goes for authenticity in portraying the poverty-stricken country and the people that inhabit it, and he&amp;#8217;s able to pull it off without any hesitation. He was even able to break barriers by filming the movie in the country&amp;#8217;s native language of Wolof, the first of its kind. The film focuses on Ibrahim Dieng (Makhouredia Gueye), a man who&amp;#8217;s married to two wives and has numerous children. He&amp;#8217;s been out of work]]>
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    <title>Baby Doll is the Pick of the Week</title>
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    <published>2021-02-15T21:39:55Z</published>
    <updated>2021-02-15T01:07:53Z</updated>

    <summary>Elia Kazan&apos;s still provocative 1956 pot boiler headlines a new week of releases.</summary>
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        <name>Davy</name>
        <uri>http://cinemasentries.com/writer/davy/</uri>
        
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        <![CDATA[Legendary director Elia Kazan never made happy-go-lucky movies. His cinema is comprised of sheer human drama, drama that includes characters at their often artificial highest and their damaging lowest. Sometimes full of sweat and grim, the Kazan oeuvre contains some of the greatest films ever made (including A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, and East of Eden) that also showcases his talent as an influential actor's director. However, his most underrated work, 1956's Baby Doll, represented him at his most erotic and outrageous; it was also his only comedy (which was albeit satirical and dark). The highly controversial Southern-fried drama (Kazan's most notorious film), adapted from the Tennesee Williams play, stars Carroll Baker as &quot;Baby Doll' Meighan, a sultry 19-year-old, childlike nymph who is married to Archie Lee (Karl Malden), a weasely and crude cotton gin owner, who have an agreement not to have sex until she turns twenty. Since his cotton gin is failing, he secretly demolishes the gin of rival owner Silva Vacarro (the great Eli Wallach in his film debut) who delivers tons of cotton to Archie's door. When Silva encounters Baby Doll, things gets really twisted. He seduces her as a means for revenge, in]]>
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<entry>
    <title>The Last Starfighter Blu-ray Review: Tailor Made for 1980s Gamers</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2021://2.7157</id>

    <published>2021-02-14T22:29:00Z</published>
    <updated>2021-02-15T01:31:39Z</updated>

    <summary>Greetings, The Last Starfighter fans, you have been recruited to absolutely love this Arrow Video release.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Mat Brewster</name>
        <uri>http://cinemasentries.com/writer/mat-brewster/</uri>
        
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        <![CDATA[As a kid growing up in the 1980s, I loved video games. In the summer, my cousins and I would walk just about every day to a nearby convenience store or to Wal-Mart to play whatever arcade games they had in their stores. We'd hustle quarters from our parents, our uncles, and grandparents. We'd keep our eyes to the ground as we walked just in case somebody had dropped some change along the way. I grew up playing home video games. My first console was a Texas Instruments TI-99, which looked like a keyboard with a cassette deck. Then it was the Atari 2600 followed by the original Nintendo Entertainment System and finally the Super Nintendo. After that, I lost interest in video games. They got too complicated and the graphics made me nauseous. Now I play casual games like Candy Crush and the like. But for a while there in the 1980s and early 1990s, I was never too far away from one game or another. My brother used to mock me by calling me a &quot;NN&quot; which stood for Nintendo Nerd (never mind the fact that he played just as much as I did.) But I got my]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Malcolm &amp; Marie Movie Review: A Frustratingly Distressing Acting Showcase</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2021://2.7156</id>

    <published>2021-02-13T20:05:00Z</published>
    <updated>2021-02-13T21:49:35Z</updated>

    <summary>A 106-minute nonsensical shouting match. </summary>
    <author>
        <name>Matthew St.Clair</name>
        <uri>http://cinemasentries.com/writer/matthew-stclair/</uri>
        
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        <![CDATA[Malcolm &amp;amp; Marie, the new Netflix drama starring John David Washington and Zendaya as our titular couple whose relationship is on the rocks, is chock full of ideas. It&amp;#8217;s a meditation on a relationship being tested along with the nature of film criticism and even being a black artist in Hollywood. Ultimately, as it tries juggling all these themes, Malcolm &amp;amp; Marie is missing one important thing: the point. The picture, which follows the couple clashing over the course of one night after coming home from the premiere of Malcolm&amp;#8217;s latest film, has a promising start. Malcolm is joyous over the audience response to his picture while Marie appears unenthused as she steps outside to smoke a cigarette. Without any words, it&amp;#8217;s clear that something is amiss. The minute they begin their night-long argument affirms that there&amp;#8217;s tension between them. That promising, wordless start ends up being undercut by the script&amp;#8217;s rinse-and-repeat formula of having Malcolm and Marie engage in verbal spouts that consist of artificial movie dialogue. Marie holding her cigarette outside ends up being the film&amp;#8217;s most memorable image. One reason is the B&amp;amp;W cinematography done by DP Marcell Rev that gives the moment, and the overall picture,]]>
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