Category: Reviews

ROMA: ANYONE CAN BE ITS AUDIENCE | REVIEW | NATHAN ROBERT BLACKBURN | FOUR SEASONS OF FILM

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Truffaut made The 400 Blows, Fellini made Amarcord, and Cuarón has now made Roma. The film was recently released on Netflix but purists can find it in smaller market theaters nationwide, which I encourage everyone to do. As I left my local art house theater, a great sadness came over me. I had just seen a Read more about ROMA: ANYONE CAN BE ITS AUDIENCE | REVIEW | NATHAN ROBERT BLACKBURN | FOUR SEASONS OF FILM[…]

“THE FAVOURITE” IS A COSTUME DRAMA THAT STINGS | REVIEW | NATHAN ROBERT BLACKBURN

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Costume dramas were essential during the early days of the studio system. Expensive to produce, their returns at the box office were always reliable. Perhaps it is their window to the past that we all wish to look through. Are we not all historians carrying the scroll of our lives hoping someone will read it? Read more about “THE FAVOURITE” IS A COSTUME DRAMA THAT STINGS | REVIEW | NATHAN ROBERT BLACKBURN[…]

“GREEN BOOK” INVOKES AN UNBREAKABLE SMILE | REVIEW | NATHAN ROBERT BLACKBURN

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It will be difficult if Green Book is absent during awards season this year. The film about a working-class Italian-American bouncer driving an African-American classical pianist on a tour through the 1960s American South, touches every emotion the human brain is capable of feeling. The film’s major success is in it’s tone and we can thank director Peter Read more about “GREEN BOOK” INVOKES AN UNBREAKABLE SMILE | REVIEW | NATHAN ROBERT BLACKBURN[…]

“THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS” IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL WESTERN | REVIEW | NATHAN ROBERT BLACKBURN

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is not the movie I expected. Having given up on trailer-watching  and synopsis-gazing, I try to live a spoiler-free life.  The Coen Brothers have the uncanny ability to constantly reinvent genres while never reinventing themselves. With True Grit (2010) they tackled the Western genre head-on and delivered a John Wayne movie for the new millennium: Read more about “THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS” IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL WESTERN | REVIEW | NATHAN ROBERT BLACKBURN[…]