Prairie Uprising Reviews

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Monday, October 20, 2025

Wild Grass (Les Herbes Follies)

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 There are some movies that many critics regard highly that make no sense to me.  Wild Grass, a peculiar uncategorizable film directed by Al...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

Frankenstein (1931) and The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

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 In preparation for Guillermo del Toros' version of Frankenstein  scheduled for Netflix in November 2025, Turner Classic Movies presente...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

Shadow

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  Shadow  is a 2018 wuxia  film directed by the much-lauded Chinese moviemaker, Zhang Yimou.  Wuxia  films are a Chinese genre -- these pict...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

One Battle After Another

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 I grew up with movies made by the studios in the late fifties and early sixties.  These films were plot-driven but with the narrative desig...
Monday, October 6, 2025

Parthenope

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 The great Italian director, Paolo Sorrentino, works in images and doesn't seem to have mastered the craft of narrative.  This is a mino...
Sunday, October 5, 2025

Excited Delirium: Alien: Earth and M, Son of the Century

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 This is a true story. When I was in college, I entered a radio contest for free tickets to the Minnesota premiere of Ridley Scott's Ali...
Friday, October 3, 2025

Velasco and Gatsby at 100: MIA

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 It's my ambition to spend the waning years of my life looking at art and reading books on art history and  criticism.  Too late, it see...
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