Category Archives: Culture

@TheMovies with PopPop: All Is Lost

All is Lost, starring Robert Redford, a sinking sailboat and a life raft, is a remarkable movie. It has essentially one word of dialogue, a very loud fuck about 1/2 way through. While the direction and cinematography are excellent, it … Continue reading

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@TheMovies with PopPop: Nebraska

Nebraska is a good if not great movie with a first rate starring role for Bruce Dern, an actor whom I’ve always liked (to say nothing of his daughter…).  It’s a tale of a guy in his late 70’s or early … Continue reading

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@TheMovies with PopPop: The Local Stigmatic

Years ago, Al Pacino made a few films, sometimes directing as well as acting, that he never released for theatrical showing; some were shown to friends or at a festival or museum, but never generally released.  A while ago, he released a … Continue reading

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@TheMovies with PopPop: Stories We Tell

Stories We Tell (2012) is a fascinating film, a documentary by Sarah Polley trying to capture “the truth” about her family.  Her mother, actress Diane Polley, died of cancer when she was a teenager; her father Michael Polley is quite … Continue reading

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@TheMovies with PopPop: Cloud Atlas

From the Archives, July, 2013 Cloud Atlas is a very well made movie that attempts to adapt a very complicated novel that I assiduously avoided reading (though another novel by David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, is … Continue reading

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@The Movies with PopPop: Lee Daniel’s The Butler

Occasionally, PopPop produces fantastic, concise movie reviews that should not be lost in e-mail archives. They should be lost in blog archives. So, here they are. The film is based very loosely on the story of Eugene Allen who served … Continue reading

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