Film with Fanuzzi

An Oscar nominee worth seeing

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Once upon a time the great question before us was: can our great and lively and vibrant community support a movie theater? Now the far greater question is:  can we support a movie review column?  The answer, of course, is a resounding yes — especially now that we do not need a movie theater at all.

Yes, this column is really about the politically impossible:  making everyone happy. For those who insist on traveling beyond these borders for the movie theater they always wanted, we’ll tell you about Movies Worth Leaving Home For.  For those who want more from their streaming or DVD services, we’ll show you Movies Worth Staying Home For.  

But like all great community enterprises, this one was preceded by a grueling negotiation period.  My new editor Shant Shahrigian finally capitulated on the most important condition:  that I would never have to review any movie like “Atonement” or “The Notebook.” Unless they had the subtitle, “Revenge of the Fallen.”  Yes, this means that the upcoming “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” qualifies.

So now you know. I have serenely, confidently bad taste in movies.  By bad, of course, I mean good:  genre movies with wit and big ideas; independent movies that mystify but linger; the occasional blockbuster with cult potential as well as the classic whose strangeness has been hiding in plain sight.  Do you like period films?  I hear there is a great TV show called “Downton Abbey.”

Worth leaving home for:

Bob Fanuzzi, The Big Short, Ant-Man, Thief, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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