The 1932 light comedy requires us to loosen up and listen, because the dialogue is fast and furious, full of clipped questions and slap-in-the-face answers, writes J.P. Devine.
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J.P. Devine MIFF Movie Review: ‘Double Indemnity’
Though ‘Double’ didn’t win an Oscar in 1945, its the film people talk about when they talk about noir, J.P. Devine writes.
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J.P. Devine MIFF Movie Review: ‘Something Wild’
This is a suspense sandwich with ingredients labeled FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, J.P. Devine writes.
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Friday: best day of the week
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday? Just guys standing on a corner waiting for the fun guy, and his name was Friday, writes J.P. Devine.
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Thinking of returning to Lotus Land
When daughters from the City of Angels, it can produce a dangerously flirtatious moment of fantasy for even a thinking man, J.P. Devine writes
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Jimmy Cagney, a favorite, was a big shot
The Fourth of July resurrects a sliver of time from a St. Louis movie theater in 1940, writes J.P. Devine.
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The old man, the Zika and the Ixodes scapularis
Abandoning his ruminations on youth when climate change forced a move to Maine, JP Devine pens an unlikely message of hope.
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She and FLOTUS on the move
Forever and ever, permanently, 100 percent, She is retiring from teaching and will be back home as surely as FLOTUS takes up residence with POTUS in the White House, writes J.P. Devine.
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And this is how it ends
His next and last book, a memoir — which requires honesty — needs a title change, J.P. Devine writes.
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Is that our song?
She may not remember that She and JP have their own song, but Doris Day, among others, brings back memories from the ’50s, writes JP Devine.