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Neely Swanson

When the United States government, for one brief moment in time, decided they would wield the sword of art and culture against Communism, they stirred up a hornet’s nest at the Venice Biennale.

I apologize for these late entries, many of which have been on for a while, but they were new when I watched them.

So much to watch! The TV series just keep coming and many of them are quite good.

Obvious from the opening, when a home movie of a wide-eyed very young Gad stares into the camera, already performing for his onlookers, this is a very personal film.

“Nowhere Special” is quite the opposite. It is a wonderful film taking you on a journey that is anything but ordinary.

“We Grown Now” is a wonderful film, both a revelation and celebration of youth in an environment foreign to most of us.

“Scoop” is an attempt to tell the shattering story of how an intrepid BBC producer, Samantha (Sam) McAlister, scored the interview that brought about the staggering fall of Prince Andrew of the royal House of Windsor.

Get thee to a nunnery, I mean to the Geffen, as soon as possible to immerse yourself in James ljames’ very (very) loose take on the Shakespeare classic “Hamlet.”

“Wicked Little Letters” is a luscious little movie, a sendup of an earlier era that was a surprising harbinger of things to come.

Celebrating an actor whose face could express infectious innocence as well as diabolical mischief, director Ron Frank and writer Glenn Kirschbaum have given us entree into the world of Gene Wilder by Gene Wilder himself, because it is his voice we hear throughout the film.