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MOVIE REVIEW: Our Souls at Night
MOVIE REVIEW: Our Souls at Night

Even from a different generation than the present day, you can’t get more Hollywood than Robert Redford and Jane Fonda.  Both are emeritus stars of Tinseltown royalty on multiple levels, respected and celebrated as award-winning performers, icons of style, sex symbols, and vigilant political personas off-screen.  To see the two of them together again, for the fifth time and the first time in 38 years in Our Souls at Night, is a revitalizing treat unto itself, but to see their shared film be staunchly non-Hollywood in stature is even more refreshing.

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2017, 4 STARS, Independent Film, MOVIE REVIEW, Video on Demand, StreamingDon Shanahan2017, Netflix, Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf, The Sense of an Ending, Ritesh Batra, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Bruce Dern, Matthias Schoenaerts, Iain Armitage, Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber, (500) Days of Summer, The Spectacular Now, The Fault of Our Stars, Elliot Goldenthal, movie review, film review, movie commentary, film commentary, independent film, independent films, life lessons, life lessons from movies, life lessons from film, life lessons from films, social commentary, romance, romantic dramas, film critic, movie critic, Donald Shanahan, Don Shanahan, Every Movie Has a LessonComment
MOVIE REVIEW: The Hateful Eight
MOVIE REVIEW: The Hateful Eight

It is time to go on record and add another label to the colorful list to describe filmmaker Quentin Tarantino: "acquired taste."  Even with his recent success, the auteur's excessive and aestheticized indulgences are catching up to him.  Each subsequent film of his may be getting more popular, but they are not getting better and "The Hateful Eight" hammers that point home.  Swelled to either a 167-minute straight cut or a 187-minute opus complete with overture and intermission, Tarantino's newest film doesn't know when to quit.  It just goes and dies, literally and figuratively.

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2015, 3 STARS, ADVANCE MOVIE REVIEW, MOVIE REVIEWDon ShanahanMusic Box TheatreThe Hateful Eight, Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Demian Bichir, Walter Goggins, Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, James Parks, Channing Tatum, Western genre, Westerns, Revenge wester, Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds, Fred Raskin, Robert Richardson, 70mm film, 70mm, Ennio Morricone, film commentary, film review, movie commentary, movie review, life lessons, life lessons from movies, life lessons from film, life lessons from films, Donald Shanahan, Don Shanahan, Every Movie Has a Lesson, 2015 Holiday Movie Preview, 2015 Holiday Movies, Oscar contendersComment
OSCAR PREDICTIONS 2014: The male acting awards
OSCAR PREDICTIONS 2014: The male acting awards

It's time to make my formal predictions.  In this sixth post, we are deep into the major award categories.  Here are my picks for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor.  Stick with me and I will win you your Oscar pool.  Let's go!

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2014, Column, EditorialDon ShanahanBarkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips, Bradley Cooper, American Hustle, Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave, Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street, Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club, James Gandolfini, Enough Said, Spring Breakers, Cate Blanchett, Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Bruce Dern, Nebraska, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis, Robert Redford, All Is Lost, Leonardo DiCaprio, Forrest Whitaker, Tom Hanks, Lee Daniels' The Butler, David O. Russell, Julia Roberts, August: Osage County, Donald Shanahan, Don Shanahan, Every Movie Has a Lesson, movie commentary, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscar Predictions, 2014 Oscars, 86th Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, SAG Award, Joaquin Phoenix, HerComment