The Incredible Story of Haing S. Ngor::rating::0::rating::0::rating::0

[su_dropcap size="5"]I[/su_dropcap]t was March 25th, 1985, and the 57th Academy Awards were in full swing. As Linda Hunt dutifully ran through the nominees for Best Supporting Actor, the production hit a snag on the penultimate name: Haing S. Ngor (rhymes with floor), the Cambodian-born doctor who starred in The Killing Fields, hadn't made it to the…

ByTodd WoffordJuly 17, 20200Comments

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A Losing Cause: Confederate Statues::rating::0

The Confederacy was a loser. It was a failed entity, run by losers

ByTodd WoffordJuly 16, 20200Comments

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Greyhound (2020)::rating::4

Greyhound represents a successful attempt to boil away unneeded ingredients and reduce the experience of war down to its essence.

ByTodd WoffordJuly 15, 20200Comments

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Artemis Fowl (2020)::rating::3

It was like watching Wile E. Coyote climb into one of his homemade catapults, where feelings of disaster and dread are just part of the experience.

ByTodd WoffordJuly 8, 20200Comments

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Escape Room (2019)::rating::3

As long as you can just power off your brain, relax, and surrender to this film’s powerful sense of goofiness, you might find yourself in a junk food coma, as well.

ByTodd WoffordJuly 6, 20201Comment

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Gettysburg (1993)::rating::4

No movie could truly capture the Shakespearean scope of those few days, but Gettysburg does much to bottle the mind-boggling fury for public consumption.

ByTodd WoffordJuly 3, 20201Comment

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Irresistible (2020)::rating::3

Irresistible ends up being decent fun, but I was hoping for so much more.

ByTodd WoffordJuly 1, 20201Comment

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Glory (1989)::rating::5

No movie has ever captured the awkward, undulating terror of a pitched Civil War battle with the precision this one does

ByTodd WoffordJune 26, 20200Comments

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You Should Have Left (2020)::rating::2.5

[su_dropcap size="5"]I[/su_dropcap]f I had to pick one movie genre to cast onto the ice floes, it would be horror. Most scary flicks are replete with dumb people doing dumb things, until they get hacked up by a killer with incomprehensible motives. Eventually, this cavalcade of tropes becomes wearying. Now that I've aired my feelings, I…

ByTodd WoffordJune 25, 20201Comment

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The King of Staten Island (2020)::rating::3.5

The movie takes Pete Davidson and moves him into an alternate reality, one where a tragedy has rendered him physically and spiritually inert.

ByTodd WoffordJune 22, 20200Comments