I’ve read three books now on this subject — minimalist living. Marie Kondo’s “The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up” started this reviewer off on a journey to get rid of the 75 million things that surround my life. Then came Fumio Sasaki’s “Goodbye, Things,” and I was off on that. None of it worked […]
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World War ll drama “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” is a heart-breaking love song
JP Devine: “It’s a love letter movie from long ago, in safer days, a time we all wish we could go back to.”
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Samin Nosrat, host of Netflix cooking show, is a wonderful ball of energy
Perhaps you’ve never heard of Samin Nosrat. She’s easy to miss while you’re looking for the usual entertainment. Also, a show called “Salt Fat Acid Heat”? It sounds like a warning from a CDC hotline. Nonetheless, while trawling the streaming channels for something to watch beyond horror, thrillers, and cookie-cutter British mysteries, I came upon […]
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Noir thriller “No Sudden Move” features the best work of Del Toro and Cheadle in years
Celebrated Director Steven Soderbergh — he of “Ocean’s Eleven,” “Erin Brockovich,” “Traffic” and “Logan Lucky” — has a summer treat for you, so it may be time to bust out the popcorn and get ready to enjoy “No Sudden Move” several times over. The movie is that good. One source described the basic plot like […]
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MIFF Review: ‘Kansas City’ entertains us with a jazzy melodrama
This smoky, meandering, sweaty hunk of life is set during the Great Depression and features a blend of gin, marked cards, bad and damaged women, gun smoke, and dirty money, J.P. Devine writes.
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MIFF Review: ‘Bread in the Bones’ rises to the occasion
Darrell Varga’s meditative and comforting documentary on bread, slated to be shown Tuesday at the Waterville Opera House, evokes in all of us memories of our first bite of this universal food.
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MIFF Review: Nueve Sevillas
Sit back and let the music carry you away to a calmer, more-romantic dreamscape, writes J.P. Devine.
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MIFF Review: ‘The Catch’ features gifted artists who help create a gorgeous visions of our coast
The stars Bill Sage, Katia Winter, Kyle Gallner, James McMenamin, Emy Coligado and Jere Burns all helped Matthew Ya-Hsiung Balzer’s dream come to the screen, says J.P. Devine.
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‘The Ice Road’ is a full-out action totally implausible Liam Neeson thriller
It all begins as many great action thrillers do, with a disaster. This one takes place at a major mining site in northern Manitoba, Canada, when a methane explosion traps 25 men in a closet-size area with 30 hours of spare oxygen left. Special equipment is needed to open a hole and get air in […]
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‘The 12th Man’ will keep your attention then haunt your dreams, forever
You think you’ve had it rough? You’ve got 16 masks, suffered a headache and soreness from your shots? You’re a sissy. You’re about to view a story about a real hero. His name was Jan Sigurd Baalsrud, a bookish man, a map maker and adventurer, who traveled throughout the world in the 1930’s. Jan was […]