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CHARLIE SAYS – Review by Pam Grady

May 1, 2019May 5, 2019 Pam Grady 0 Comments charles manson, charlie says, guinivere turner, hannah murray, marianne rendon, mary Harron, Merritt Wever, motw, Movie of the Week, sosie bacon, the family

Director Mary Harron, who previously found the humanity in would-be assassin Valeria Solanas with I Shot Andy Warhol and Bret Easton Ellis’ twisted master of the universe in American Psycho tries to the same with Charles Manson acolytes and murderers Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkle, and Susan Atkins with her latest, Charlie Says. It is a mixed bag, but intriguing enough to make it a worthy addition to Harron’s oeuvre despite some glaring weaknesses.

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THE SEER AND THE UNSEEN – Review by Pam Grady

April 16, 2019 Pam Grady 0 Comments documentary, film festivals, Iceland, sara dosa, sffilm festival, the seer and the unseen

A grandmother takes on the powers that be in The Seer and the Unseen, Sara Dosa’s sophomore feature that made its debut at the SFFILM Festival. The documentary’s depiction of efforts to stop development across one of Iceland’s magnificent lava fields is enchanting—and not just because Iceland’s legendary elves are the titular “unseen.”

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TIFF18 Review: THE FRONT RUNNER – Pam Grady

September 26, 2018September 27, 2018 Pam Grady 0 Comments gary hart, Hugh Jackman, jason reitman, the front runner, TIFF 2018

Welcome to the worst episode of West Wing, ever, as directed by Jason Reitman trying to channel Robert Altman. Never has Altman’s signature overlapping dialogue and large, panoramic casts been so ill-used than in this pallid distillation of what went wrong with Colorado Senator Gary Hart’s 1988 presidential campaign.

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TIFF18 Review: RED JOAN – Pam Grady

September 25, 2018September 27, 2018 Pam Grady 0 Comments judi dench, melita norwood, red joan, sophie cookson, spy thriller, TIFF

Lacking the tension it might have had had the story been presented as a thriller, Red Joan instead wallows in melodrama. What could have been the crackling story of a spy so good she got away with it for decades dissipates into weak soap opera.

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TIFF18 Review: ROMA – Pam Grady

September 24, 2018January 21, 2019 Pam Grady 0 Comments ROMA, TIFF 2018

Roma unreels like memory, blending quotidian scenes of family life with dramatic historical moments (an earthquake, student unrest), and leavening bits of absurdity. Exquisite sound design and director Alfonso Cuaron’s own shimmering black-and-white cinematography add to the pleasure of this warm, evocative drama,’s own shimmering black-and-white cinematography add to the pleasure of this warm, evocative drama,

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TIFF18 Review: A FAITHFUL MAN –Pam Grady

September 24, 2018September 27, 2018 Pam Grady 0 Comments a faithfulman, lily rose depp, louis garrel, TIFF 2018

Louis Garrel spins a compact , buoyant romantic farce in which he stars as Abel, sweet, passive, and buffeted by the whims of others. Rejected first by Marianne (Laetitia Casta, Garrel’s wife) in favor of his friend Paul, the pair reunites years later, with some unexpected adjustments.

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TIFF18 Review: WILDLIFE -Pam Grady

September 24, 2018September 27, 2018 Pam Grady 0 Comments Carey Mulligan, paul dano, TIFF 2018, wildlife

Jake Gyllenhaal and Ed Oxenbould deliver fine performances, but Wildlife is the Carey Mulligan show. Her old friend Paul Dano has given her a present, which she graciously gifts him back with one of the towering performances of her career.

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TIFF18 Review: WIDOWS – Pam Grady

September 24, 2018September 27, 2018 Pam Grady 0 Comments steve mcqueen, TIFF 2018, viola davis, widows

Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, and Elizabeth Debicki are the women of the title, drawn together after their criminal husbands are killed in a shootout with Chicago police. Left with their spouses’ debts to some very bad men, the women have no choice but to pick up with their old men let off.

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TIFF 2017: Angela Robinson on PROFESSOR MARSTON AND THE WONDER WOMEN — Pam Grady Interviews (Exclusive)

October 13, 2017October 13, 2017 Pam Grady 0 Comments angela robinson, Bella Heathcote, Patty Jenkins, professor marston and the wonder women, rebecca hall, TIFF, toronto international film festival

One of the happy surprises of Toronto International Film Festival 2017, Angela Robinson’s Professor Marston and the Women, may share

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DETROIT — Review by Pam Grady

August 12, 2017August 13, 2017 Pam Grady 0 Comments detroit, kathryn bigelow, mark boal, motw, Movie of the Week

In the summer of 1967, while the West Coast grooved to the Summer of Love, Detroit burned in five days

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