Monthly Archives: October 2017

Movie Preview: Mirren and Sutherland, a rusty old RV and dementia drive “The Leisure Seeker”

This comic novel adaptation, about an elderly couple who take an ancient RV from Massachusetts to Hemingway’s House down in Key West, may give dementia a “cute” veneer. But when you’ve got Dame Helen Mirren and the durable Donald Sutherland … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “The Legend of 420” makes the case for legal pot, with humor

The first images of “The Case for Pot” documentary “The Legend of 420” are a joke — World War II footage re-purposed as a narrator makes the case that Hitler lost the war in the haze of a a mellowing … Continue reading

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Box Office: “It,””American Made,” and “Kingsman” finish in dead heat

So we won’t know — for sure, until the “actuals” are cooked (ahem) up by the studios, who actually won the last weekend of September box office sweepstakes, some time Monday afternoon. The liar’s poker bluffs that’re come out today … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “The Square”

Another year, another over-long, obscure (and often as not, European) Palme D’Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival. This year’s Palme picture is “The Square,” a two and a half hour darkly comic commentary on community, moral responsibility, class and … Continue reading

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