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“Endless Poetry” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

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Endless Poetry (2017; Alejandro Jodorowsky) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes Full disclosure: I have not seen Jodorowsky’s 2014 comeback film The Dance of Reality, the spiritual successor to this semi-autobiographical fantasy.  Therefore, feel free to disregard my take on Endless Poetry accordingly. That previous film covered Jodorowsky’s youth in Chile, […]

“The Club” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

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The Club (2016; Pablo Larraín) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes The Club is the followup film to director/co-writer Pablo Larraín’s Oscar-nominated No, and it’s another intimate and methodical take on a dark era in Chilean history.  In this case, the film concerns the systematic cover-up of child sexual […]