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Film critique: Why are you Americans so anti dictators?
The Tennessee Holler remembers this from the 2012 movie “The Dictator.” We were warned. We didn’t listen.
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Film critique: Our house starred in a movie
Can’t believe it’s taken this long for me to write this, but within the past couple of years, my house was a setting for a Hollywood movie. Here’s the trailer for “Wildcat“: The weird shots beginning 34 second in with the mysterious couple in a bedroom: That’s our bedroom. The woman with glasses entering a…
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Film critique: Look! Up in the Sky!
Today is one of those days when EVERY AIRPLANE ARRIVING IN LOUISVILLE is flying over my house. I’m directly in the flight path of all the UPS flights arriving from the north and only 3.5 miles from Muhammad Ali Airport, so jets are coming in really low and really loud. So, it’s the perfect time…
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Film critique: No doubt, it’s a great movie
I am a huge Alfred Hitchcock fan. I’ve tried to see all of his movies, including the turgid “Jamaica Inn” and the overwhelmingly problematic “Frenzy” (one murder scene in it should never have been made). But the great Hitchcock movies are better than anything you’ll find today. “Rebecca,” “Notorious,” “Strangers on a Train,” “North by…
