Category: 5 Favorites
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5 Favorites Redux #97: Butler, Chastain, Elwes, Grillo, Plaza
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. This week, I’ve chosen to look at films for five individuals, Gerard Butler, Jessica…
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5 Favorites Redux #96: Willem Dafoe
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. Acting on film since the early-to-mid-1980s, Willem Dafoe is a character actor of great…
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5 Favorites Redux #95: Films I Would Like to See (from This Week’s Releases’ Stars)
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. It’s been a while since I did a special kind of list like this.…
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5 Favorites Redux #94: Original Horror Films of the 1990s
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. This weekend, Jordan Peele brings his estimable skills at writing horror films to bear…
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5 Favorites Redux #93: Sean Penn
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. Sean Penn may have started his acting career in fluff roles in films like…
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5 Favorites Redux #92: Forrest Whitaker
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. Among actors, Forrest Whitaker is a regular treasure. He’s a hardworking, generous actor who…
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5 Favorites Redux #91: Dastmalchian, Davis, Elba, Kinnaman, Robbie
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. This weekend, the all-star cast of The Suicide Squad, a reboot of the first,…
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5 Favorites Redux #90: Matt Damon
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. Who would have thought that the kid who starred in Good Will Hunting would…
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5 Favorites Redux #89: Gael Garcia Bernal
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. Because of American audiences’ aversions to making foreign language films blockbusters, it’s not often…
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5 Favorites Redux #88: Bassett, Gillan, Gugino, Headey, Yeoh
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. With five tremendous actresses working together on this stylish action film, it feels appropriate…
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5 Favorites Redux #87: Rachel Weisz
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. Eighty issues ago, I did my 5 Favorites article on Scarlett Johansson. Since she’s…
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5 Favorites Redux #86: Animated Sequels
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. What was once only the purview of direct-to-video shelves at Blockbuster has become a…
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5 Favorites Redux #85: Cena, Diesel, Mirren, Rodriguez, Theron
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. With this week’s release of the latest film in the Fast & Furious series,…
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5 Favorites Redux #84: Ryan Reynolds
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. Hollywood’s heartthrobs are well known for appearing in some relatively banal films and Ryan…
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5 Favorites Redux #83: Big Screen Musicals
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. This weekend, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s breakout Broadway hit makes its way to the big screen…
