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‘First Man’ Probes Armstrong’s Closed Psyche
First Man goes inward. It is almost Bergmanesque in its attempt to probe Armstrong's hermetically closed psyche. Director Damien Chazelle manages a few startling visual and aural effects along the way...[Read More]
Your Movie & TV Show Decider
Welcome to Cinetropa, your Movie and TV Show Decider Ever went to a movie that you thought was great but turned out to be really just meh? Not really awful mind you, but just rated too high. It’s not ...[Read More]
How to Watch the 2019 Oscars Live Online
It's time for the 2019 Oscars! The nominees are ready and waiting and an amazing array of presenters and performers have been lined up, so you don't want to miss a minute of it! Can't be near a TV on ...[Read More]
Noel Vera’s Best Movies (or Hate List) of 2018
Not much a list of the best of 2018 as it is a list of titles that best expressed the anger of 2018--not so much a Best list as a Hate list
Korean Movies: Still Better Than Hollywood Pics?
Korean movies were better than Hollywood pics in the early 2000s. Now, they have just as many bad ones. Still, a movie like Little Forest keeps you hoping the Korean new wave still has some legs to it...[Read More]
Zama
Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.