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DTF ST. LOUIS – Review by Lynn Venhaus

March 3, 2026 Lynn Venhaus David Harbour, DTF St. Louis, HBO limited series, jason bateman, Joy Sunday, Linda Cardellini, peter sarsgaard, richard jenkins, Steve Conrad

Despite its titillating title, DTF St. Louis is not as cringy as it may seem, but yes, frank sexuality is a major part of the HBO limited series. Writer-director Steve Conrad’s aim is to explore what repressed desires and temptation lead to in a typical Midwest suburb – the holy trinity of modern crime dramas: betrayal, double-crosses, and secrets. And a healthy dose of awkwardness. As he probes middle-age malaise in an offbeat, but familiar way, Conrad’s seven-episode arc centers on an unusual murder mystery.

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NIGHTMARE ALLEY – Reviewed by T. J. Callahan

December 16, 2021December 17, 2021 T. J. Callahan Bradley Cooper, cate blanchett, David Strathairn, guillermo del toro, Kim Morgan, mara, Nightmare Alley, richard jenkins, Ron Perlman, Roony, willem dafoe

Nightmare Alley is the remake of a 1947 noir thriller that starred that swashbuckling heartthrob, Tyrone Power. Bradley Cooper steps into the role trying his best to be wickedly suave as a carny with a murderous past who learns the tricks of the traveling sideshow trade to swindle the rich as a manipulating mind reader. He’s a high plains drifter grifter.

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NIGHTMARE ALLEY – Review by Diane Carson

December 9, 2021December 12, 2021 Diane Carson Bradley Cooper, cate blanchett, David Strathairn, guillermo del toro, Kim Morgan, mara, Nightmare Alley, richard jenkins, Ron Perlman, Roony, willem dafoe

A remake of director Edmund Goulding’s shattering and, at the time, shockingly macabre 1947 noir Nightmare Alley may not seem the least bit necessary. But the imaginative Guillermo del Toro, with a screenplay by him and Kim Morgan, proves that this grim story still delivers a powerful experience and a weighty warning in his compelling, superbly cinematic reinterpretation.

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KAJILLIONAIRE – Review by Susan Wloszczyna

September 24, 2020September 27, 2020 Susan Wloszczyna 0 Comments Debra Winger, kajillionaire, miranda july, rachel evan wood, richard jenkins

To put it nicely, Miranda July’s cinematic output is a bit of an acquired taste, one that is sweet and sour, twee and tart, in equal measure. That was the case with her first feature, You, Me and Everyone We Know. Her latest dramedy outing has a bit of an upgraded cast given that it stars Debra Winger, Richard Jenkins and Evan Rachel Wood as the Dynes, a Los Angeles-based family of oddball grifters who are constantly looking for screwball ways to bilk others instead just holding down jobs

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THE SHAPE OF WATER — Review by Lauren Veneziani

December 12, 2017October 29, 2023 Lauren Veneziani 0 Comments guillermo del toro, octavia spencer, richard jenkins, sally hawkins, the shape of water

The Shape of Water is the work of director, Guillermo del Toro, who is known for his visionary filmmaking. The film is a sort of Beauty and the Beast. It is set in 1962 and Sally Hawkins is a mute janitor who works in a science facility that is holding an aquatic creature to study it. She and the creature have their own way of communicating with each other through sign language, and they end up falling in love.