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Saturday, July 10, 2021

Messi finally wins Copa América

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Messi's Copa América win.  Buda Mendes/Getty Images It was a tournament that felt unnecessary. It was the 4th Copa América in just 6 yea...
Sunday, July 04, 2021

I Want Your Tree...your tree also..I want all your trees

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Taming the Garden (2021, Georgia/Switzerland, Salomé Jashi) “A picture is worth a thousand words”.   In this case, the picture left me speec...
Friday, July 02, 2021

Lakbayan to Genus Pan

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Genus Pan (2020, Philippines, Lav Diaz) Genus Pan , Courtesy of Sine Olivia Pilipinas As with any Lav Diaz film, the running time is often m...

Roy Andersson 2.5

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About Endlessness (2019, Swedish co-production) 10 years ago, I laughed in delight while watching Roy Andersson’s double-bill of Songs from ...
Thursday, July 01, 2021

Bruno Dumont 2.0

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Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (2018, 4 episode TV Mini-series) For a change, I started at the beginning. I was fortunate enough to witness B...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

Copa Libertadores vs Champions League

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The swift unraveling of the European Super League doesn’t mean that things will become better in the Champions League. It still appears that...
Saturday, May 22, 2021

Atlético Madrid finally win La Liga Title

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EFE   Back on October 11 2020, I predicted the following for the 2020/2021 season: "In Spain, either Real Madrid or Barcelona will win ...
Monday, May 17, 2021

Take the Ball, Pass the Ball

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 Take the Ball, Pass the Ball (2018, Spain, Duncan McMath)   Based on Graham Hunter’s book, Barça: The Making of the Greatest Team in the Wo...
Monday, May 10, 2021

John Wick 3

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 John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019, Chad Stahelski) Guns. More guns. Suits. Blood. Mood lighting. Once the bullets are done, knives or...
Thursday, May 06, 2021

The Dictator Novel

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dictator [ dik-tey-ter, dik-tey-ter ] 1. a person exercising absolute power, especially a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a ...