In Motherless Brooklyn, writer-director-star Edward Norton paints with brilliant brush strokes, but he doesn’t know when to step back from the canvas.

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For this episode, we bring in a special guest, Daniel Gimlin, to discuss Scorsese’s Marvel comments, and talk about The Irishman.  We also drink The Bull, a delicious, fruit-forward red wine.  

Jexi had potential, buried underneath all the layers of badness.

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For this surprise episode, we talk about Joaquin Phoenix’s incarnation of the Joker.  Plus, we drink some tasty red wine.  

For all its flaws, I will give it this:  Anna boasts the rare distinction of being bloody and boring at the same time.

What we’re left with is a well-made movie with brilliant performances, but it’s also an unpleasant and exhausting cinematic experience.  

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This week, we screen an over-the-top 90s classic, The Rock.  We got cornball one-liners, frantic Michael Bay direction, and a wacky chase through the streets of San Francisco.

Unplanned plays like an impassioned jeremiad, feverishly pitched toward the contented faces in the choir.  

“War is cruelty,” William Tecumseh Sherman once said.  “There is no use trying to reform…

In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo–the first English-language adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s novel series–director David…