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The lyrics to musician Frank Zappa’s song “What’s the ugliest part of your body?” from the album We’re Only in It for the Money,  express...

A lonely figure on horseback traverses an imposing landscape of mesas and mountains. A gunslinger prepares to draw his gun on an opponent...

A picture of an idyllic life might involve children laughing as they swim in a river that flows through a woodland glade, a woman...

At its fundamental level, Leave the Word Behind is a dire warning of the deterioration of human and social values in the face of a life...

The Holdovers  is filled with nostalgia, regret and tears. Yet, it is full of affirming lessons from life. It draws us back to the 1970’s...

The desolate dunes of Arrakis, the giant sandworms that excrete the mind-altering spice melange, the warring Houses of Atreides and...

Poor Things is a masterly expression of director Yorgos Lanthimos’s cinematic vision full of wondrous destinations, dazzling visual...

Film enthusiasts and lovers of French cinema will soon have the opportunity to engage with renowned French actress Catherine Deneuve,...

Sagas are bold and wide reaching. They cover the span of generations and the monumental arc of time and events.  Killers of the Flower...

Fern (Frances Mc Dormand) Nomadland is a composed and serene movie about caring and peaceful people. This is not to say that the nomads...

Jean-Paul Belmondo in Breathless Classic, masterpiece, and groundbreaking describe films that have been influential in changing...

Zappa (2020) Documentary Director Alex Winter Weasels Ripped My Flesh; Help, I’m A Rock; The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet; Don’t...

Screen Speak is designed to share film reviews, of current films and historic films, provide sidebars about backgrounds to film...