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Robin Holabird
Dec 21, 20222 min read
A banner year for men who make movies
The year 2022 comes to an end displaying multiple celebrations of filmmaking, with Oscar winning directors taking surreal, warm,...
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Robin Holabird
Dec 12, 20221 min read
Short film about Ukraine deserves long impact
His own heritage inspiring extra concern about the Soviet invasion of the Ukraine, filmmaker Janek Ambros moves from the surreal world he...
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Robin Holabird
Dec 12, 20221 min read
Skydiver Cooper's fame keeps rising
The holiday season at Reno’s airport once included a prank call: “Paging D.B. Cooper.” While cell phone communications and occasional...
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Robin Holabird
Dec 12, 20221 min read
Del Toro grows a new Pinocchio
Like him or not, Pinocchio and his sprouting nose flourish like weeds in the movie industry, where yet a second version this year alone...
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Robin Holabird
Nov 28, 20221 min read
Dustin and Sissy help Sam and Kate
Despite using the names Sam and Kate as a title, the movie’s two younger characters step aside for the project’s real appeal, the teaming...
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Robin Holabird
Nov 19, 202218 min read
Viewing Vienna on screen
Around the World in 80 Movies: Before Sunrise in Vienna It should come as no surprise when a city that groomed great minds generates...
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Robin Holabird
Nov 1, 20221 min read
Styles style includes cops
Pop phenomenon Harry Styles’ style includes gender fluidity, perfectly suited to his new movie My Policeman. Styles plays Tom, a 1950s...
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Robin Holabird
Oct 31, 20221 min read
Tanya rises high
Musicians repeatedly provide massive movie fodder and country singer Tanya Tucker enters the field with a documentary that offers a...
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Robin Holabird
Sep 26, 20221 min read
Buried unearths tragic history
Regional history plays a part in the new documentary Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche. Directors Jared Drake and Steven Siig...
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Robin Holabird
Sep 19, 20221 min read
See How They...runs with whodunnit basics
Though Oscar winners highlight its cast, See how they Run actress Saoirse Ronan runs away with the show. Playing an over-enthusiastic cop...
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Robin Holabird
Sep 12, 20222 min read
3000 Years longs for more passion
I may not spend a full three thousand years at it, and my longing for films by George Miller qualifies more as anticipation than...
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Robin Holabird
Sep 2, 20221 min read
Gigi and Nate looks at monkey business
The new movie Gigi and Nate shows that one way to shock the monkey comes with work as service animals. Yes, the title monkey Gigi gets a...
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Robin Holabird
Aug 31, 20222 min read
Beast nips chomp romp genre
In Beast, a lion joins the summer’s jaws and claws crowd with a roar that’s worse than its bite. The chomp romp works both sides of the...
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Robin Holabird
Aug 22, 20222 min read
Mack and Rita mistake age and wisdom
The movie Mack and Rita lets Diane Keaton continue the march for former ingenues to maintain a chick-flick presence, a good idea that...
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Robin Holabird
Aug 12, 20222 min read
Hallelujah for music documentaries
Two significantly different songs inspire separate documentaries this summer, proving that just a few minutes of performance can lead to...
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Robin Holabird
Aug 5, 20222 min read
Nope visits Twilight Zone
After a so-so visit to the Twilight Zone on television, Jordan Peele finds a better home for the mindset with his new movie Nope. Set in...
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Robin Holabird
Jul 25, 20222 min read
Crawdads sing off key
Author Delia Owens came up with a great sounding phrase for her book turned movie: Where the Crawdads Sing. I immediately imagined a...
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Robin Holabird
Jul 18, 20222 min read
Asking Agatha creates another fun mystery
Streaming service or movie theater? This weekend I got lazy and tried a test run of Britbox, a natural for any public broadcast fan since...
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Robin Holabird
Jul 2, 20221 min read
Phantom crashes golf games
With a message resembling a sports ad--just do it--The Phantom of the Open plays on the warm platitude of watching a little guy succeed....
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Robin Holabird
Jun 11, 20221 min read
Fire Island gains Pride from Jane Austen
To play off Jane Austen’s famous opening line for Pride and Prejudice, it is a truth universally acknowledged…that a good story can bear...
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