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Movie Review: Small Things Like These
4.5 stars out of 5 In my review of the excellent 2022 movie The Quiet Girl, I wrote that the “script is adapted from the novella Foster by Claire Keegan; will have to check out her work.” Since then I’ve indeed read the bulk of Keegan’s work, including her masterwork to date, Small Things Like These. My […]
Movie Review: The Quiet Girl
4.5 stars out of 5First and foremost, this is not A Quiet Place III. Though it is a pretty quiet movie. The Quiet Girl, from Ireland, was one of the 2023 Oscar nominees for Best International Feature Film. It didn’t win, but it is terrific. I’m not sure when the movie is set — late […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 3/13/12
EPISODE #15: ST. PATRICK’S DAY The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Pogues — “The Sickbed of Cuchulainn” Elvis Costello — “No Action” Thin Lizzy — “Jailbreak” The Men of No Property — “The Bogside Man” Sinéad O’Connor — “Mandinka” Boomtown Rats — “I Don’t Like Mondays” Van Morrison — “Jackie Wilson Said” U2 — “Beautiful […]
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