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Dave Made A Maze (2017) : a film review by Mark R. Leeper.
‘Dave Made A Maze’ is reminiscent of a contemporary Forbidden Zone, infused with peculiar music. Dave assembles a maze in his living room…
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August 2023
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Disenchanted (2022): a film review by Mark R. Leeper.
Disenchanted is the sequel to 2007’s Enchanted, with Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey returning as the leads; but while some of the humor…
July 2023
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The Quatermass series: a film retrospective by Mark R. Leeper.
Tuesday, July 18, 2023, marks the 70th anniversary of the first broadcast of the inaugural episode of BBC’s ‘Quatermass’, a series of plays…
June 2023
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The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster (2023): a film review by Mark R. Leeper.
‘The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster’ starts out narrated by the ‘angry Black girl’ of this horror movie title. She tells a…
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Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story (2023): a film review by Mark R. Leeper.
A lot of people these days on the Internet and elsewhere seem to have an unquenchable thirst for celebrity biographies. A large number…
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Master (2022): a film review by Mark R. Leeper.
‘Master’ is a surprisingly effective story with high production values. We start out wondering, ‘Is this a ghost story? A polemic? Or what?’…
May 2023
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We Have A Ghost (2023) : a film review by Mark R. Leeper
‘We Have a Ghost’ is a family-friendly horror-comedy with a PG-13 rating. This amusing tale revolves around a family that relocates to a…
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Midsommar (2019) : a film review by Mark R. Leeper
In ‘Midsommar’, three friends travel to Sweden to observe the midsummer festival at the farm/commune of another of their friends. It is…
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PK (2014) : a film review by Mark R. Leeper
‘PK’ is a 2014 Indian Science Fiction film about an alien who is visiting Earth. Within the first five minutes of his…
April 2023
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Disney’s Pinocchio (2023): a film review by Mark R. Leeper.
In the beginning of Disney’s Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket gets into an argument with the narrator. It is always best to stay on the…
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Brian And Charles (2022) (a film mini-review by Mark R. Leeper).
Brian and Charles is expanded from a 2017 12-minute film, and serves as evidence that some shorts do not expand well. The plot…
March 2023
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Don’t Worry Darling (2022) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
Set in the Victory Project, a 1950s utopian community, “Don’t Worry Darling” follows our protagonist as she tackles housework with the same energy…