Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. How many times have we heard that cliche? It should, by now, be relegated to the embroidered throw pillow in your grandma’s favorite chair. Here then is 2008’s “27 Dresses” directed by Anne Fletcher (“The Proposal” 2009, and “Hocus Pocus 2” 2022.) So why did a humble reviewer agree […]
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Movie Review: ‘One Life’ impossible not to be moved, J.P. Devine writes
This is the story behind James Hawes’ new film that opens tomorrow in Waterville.
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MOVIE REVIEW: Danielle Macdonald makes ‘Falling for Figaro’ rom-com float
We find ourselves here in a pretty much predictable rom-com film set, at first, in a boardroom in a big city where futures are decided, especially for our Millie Cantwell, (Danielle Macdonald, “Dumplin” 2018, “Bird Box” 2018.) But hold on, after the boardroom and some nonsexual chatty bedroom scenes, the story suddenly takes us to […]
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TV SERIES REVIEW: ‘Feud: Capote vs. The Swans’
In this season’s entry, everything begins to fall apart.
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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Holdovers’ gives us incredible performances by the two main players, J.P. Devine says
A neurotic, hidden alcoholic, obsessive disciplinarian has been selected to spend the Christmas break monitoring boys who couldn’t be picked up by their parents.
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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Taste of Things’ is a love story about food and lovers
“The Taste of Things” is so simple, so much a grand luminous romantic story, nothing written about it will charm and delight you as the watching of it., J.P. Devine writes.
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TV SERIES REVIEW: ‘Feud’ is a dusty old tale about two fading wall portraits, J.P. Devine writes
A strong cast falls short in this hit-or-miss series that looks at the famous feud between iconic actors Joan Crawford and Bette Davis.
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TV SERIES REVIEW: ‘The Dry’ is a strange, often bewildering sitcom
In the opening scenes of Paddy Breathnach and Nancy Harris’s “The Dry,” we meet Shiv (short for Siobhan played by Roisin Gallagher) arriving home unexpectedly from London in a cab. She seems surprised that no one in the family is there to meet her. Once you meet this family, you’ll wonder if she really grew […]
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TV SERIES REVIEW: New ‘Monsieur Spade’ brings elements of classic to France
Clive Owen (“Inside Man,” “Croupier”) appears this week on AMC’s “Monsieur Spade” as Sam Spade. If that classic name seems familiar to you, you’re a lot older than you look. Sam Spade was famously the name on an office window atop Hyde Street in San Francisco, where the cable cars still turn. It spelled out […]
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‘Oppenheimer,’ the Frankenstein’s monster that changed our world
“I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” A verse from the Bhagavad Gita, spoken by Oppenheimer while viewing the successful test of the first bomb. J. Robert Oppenheimer. A name forever burned in history and largely forgotten. Japanese cities like Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the two cities our bombers destroyed at the cost of great […]