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Movie Reviews by Todd Wofford— Funny, informative movie reviews

Jul 2024

Stop Making Sense (1984)::rating::5::rating::5::rating::5

A s musical documentaries go, none are more grippingly intimate than Stop Making Sense. The live audience exists as an invisible force, somewhere in the darkness beyond the stage. For most…

Nov 2022

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This is Spinal Tap (1984)::rating::5

It's such a fine line between stupid and clever..." David St. Hubbins T ruer words have never echoed through the hallowed hallways of pop culture history. Our entire modern mythology is…

Mar 2022

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Summer of Soul (2021)::rating::4.5

T he Harlem Cultural Festival was a massive musical happening, spread over six weeks of 1969's sweltering summer. Tens of thousands concert-goers crammed into Harlem's Mount Morris Park to hear…

Mar 2019

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Apollo 11 (2019)::rating::4

O n a sweltering day in September 1962, President John F. Kennedy outlined an audacious plan: Before the decade was over, the United States would put a man on the…

Mar 2019

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Free Solo (2018)::rating::4

M idway through Free Solo, rock climber Alex Honnold goes in for a brain scan. Honnold is training to scale the granite face of Yosemite's El Capitan, without the benefit of…

Dec 2018

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They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)::rating::5

The old saying goes that, "war is long periods of tedium punctuated by moments of sheer terror." No film in recent memory captures that contrast with more crystalline ferocity than…

Sep 2018

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Good Ol’ Freda (2013)::rating::3.5

Rock history is replete with well-intentioned superstars who chose to people their inner circle with blood-sucking sycophants. Elvis had his Memphis Mafia, a nasty little cadre of shitkickers who strip-mined Presley’s…

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