(Image: Oscars.org and YouTube) Leave it to the annual early morning Oscar nominations to always find a way to rock our worlds. Earlier this morning in an…… Read more “New from Every Movie Has a Lesson by Don Shanahan: EDITORIAL: Five surprises and snubs from the 92nd Academy Award nominations”
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New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: Clemency Envelopes Us All in Destructive Darkness
Many people who have witnessed a cruder form of capital punishment, be that a hanging or the electric chair, will affirm the recoiling revulsion of that experience.…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: Clemency Envelopes Us All in Destructive Darkness”
New from Every Movie Has a Lesson by Don Shanahan: MOVIE REVIEW: Clemency
(Image by Paul Sarkis for NEON) Black Perspectives, International Competition, and Women in Cinema selection of the 55th Chicago International Film FestivalCLEMENCY– 4 STARSMany people who have…… Read more “New from Every Movie Has a Lesson by Don Shanahan: MOVIE REVIEW: Clemency”
New from Every Movie Has a Lesson by Don Shanahan: COLUMN: My Top 100 Movies of the 2010s
As a guy who turned 40 this past year, the reality of 2020 sounds like the absolute future, like something out of science fiction. Alas, here we…… Read more “New from Every Movie Has a Lesson by Don Shanahan: COLUMN: My Top 100 Movies of the 2010s”
New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: Just Mercy Makes Steadiness an Empowering Compliment
Admittedly so, there is a great deal about Just Mercy that feels, for lack of a better word, formulaic. Legal movies have their mimetic blueprint elements from the…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: Just Mercy Makes Steadiness an Empowering Compliment”
New from Every Movie Has a Lesson by Don Shanahan: MOVIE REVIEW: Just Mercy
(Photo Credit: Jake Giles Netter for Warner Bros.) Gala Presentation and Black Perspectives selection of the 55th Chicago International Film Festival JUST MERCY– 4 STARSAdmittedly so, there…… Read more “New from Every Movie Has a Lesson by Don Shanahan: MOVIE REVIEW: Just Mercy”
New from Every Movie Has a Lesson by Don Shanahan: SPECIAL: Fourth annual CIC Award Winners
PARASITE AND KNIVES OUT LEAD ALL WINNERS AND FEMALE FILMMAKERS ARE CELEBRATED AT THE 4TH ANNUAL FILM AWARDS FROM THE CHICAGO INDIE CRITICS (Image: latimes.com) I was among the 20…… Read more “New from Every Movie Has a Lesson by Don Shanahan: SPECIAL: Fourth annual CIC Award Winners”
