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Gareth Higgins on INTRACONNECTIVITY Better than anything I can write here is The Elephant Whisperers (above), which just won the Oscar for best live action short. It’s available on Netflix, and I wholeheartedly recommend you watch it along with another nominated short,

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Kathleen Norris on COMMIE HUNTERS: HISTORY LESSONS ON FILM Movies emerge from specific times and often act as harbingers of the future. Today, when many…

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Gareth Higgins on OSCAR NOMINATIONS 2023 The Oscars don’t matter as much as they used to partly because there are more platforms than ever, which does…

Mar 7

Kathleen Norris on Quiet Thrillers 2021’s “Azor” (above, Andreas Fontana, director) is a quiet but remarkably tense film set in Argentina. Much of the…

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Gareth Higgins on THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Ever since I first saw The Banshees of Inisherin, I’ve been waiting for someone else to point out the joke…

Feb 21

Kathleen Norris: FUNNY / NOT THAT FUNNY I am confused. Two recent films that are described as “comedies” seem to me to be anything but funny. “The Menu…

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Gareth Higgins on IRISH CINEMA The other day I was watching Lawrence of Arabia for the umpteenth time, and I couldn’t stop thinking about how some great…

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