Prairie Uprising Reviews
Reviews of Film
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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