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Thursday, January 1, 2026

The Interested Bystander's Top Films of 2025 (and 2024!)

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Train Dreams (c) Netflix Two Years in Films: Best of 2024 (definitive) & 2025 (preliminary)  2025 was full of ups and downs in the polit...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

The Interested Bystander’s Oscar Predictions: December 2025

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Frankenstein (c) Netflix 'Twas the period before Christmas, when all through LA  Many pre-Oscar awards were given, as is the way,  So as...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Film: Catching Up on Some of the Films Vying for International Feature at the Oscars Including Jordan’s Exceptional “All That’s Left of You” and South Korea’s Popular “No Other Choice”

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The Secret Agent (c) NEON The Oscars accept a single film submission from each foreign country. How the countries pick their film varies. ...
Monday, December 8, 2025

Theater: One Of My Favorite Plays of the 21st Century (“Majorie Prime”) and a Favorite Playwright’s Lesser Efforts (“Gruesome Playground Injuries”) Get Reassessed in Starry Revivals

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Marjorie Prime (c) Joan Marcus Broadway: Marjorie Prime  2nd Stage Production at the Helen Hayes Theatre  Memory is an elusive thing in Mar...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Reviews: Catching Up on Theater, Including an Enjoyable “Laowang,” the Emotional Nostalgia of “Gotta Dance,” Trying to Figure Out the Early Closing of “The Queen of Versailles,” an Affecting Family Drama in “Little Bear Ridge Road,” and “Oedipus” Is Quite the Motherfu--- Shut Yo Mouth!

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Gotta Dance (c) Bjorn Bolinder Theater: Gotta Dance  At Theatre at St. Jean  Revues are odd theater beasts. I don’t know why some are wild...