15): Contrive It Like You Stole It

January 11th With a name like “Estus Pirkle,” it has to be good. I know that the civilized thing to do with a movie like this is to laugh it off, and the movie gives us opportunities to do exactly that. The makeup on some of these people, done by Ron Ormond’s then-wife June Carr,… Read More 2023 Movie Diary (1/11-1/15): Contrive It Like You Stole It

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Sing Street (2016)

Dir. John Carney. Starring Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Lucy Boynton, Jack Reynor The one-sentence synopsis of Sing Street – boy creates band on spot to impress cute girl he met – sounds like a nightmare of a mediocre screwball update. But what John Carney seems to have understood intuitively was that this is not a story about about a kid faking… Read More Sing Street (2016)

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2023 Movie Diary (1/11-1/15): Contrive It Like You Stole It

Sing Street (2016)