Daily Archives: March 1, 2018

Next Screening? “Death Wish” brings Eli Roth and Bruce Willis together

Posted on March 1, 2018 by rogerinorlando

Bruce Willis is long in the tooth, but if there’s one thing Eastwood’s long career taught us, it’s that action stars can still get it done so long as the most physical thing they have to pull off is pulling … Continue reading →

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“Drunk History” is quite simply the finest program on Television

Posted on March 1, 2018 by rogerinorlando

Not a new show, not the first time I’ve said this. But in a sea of cable and streaming “reality TV,” where we go to Late Night Hosts for our news, when “fact” has been reduced to opinion thanks to … Continue reading →

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Remember your first Foreign Film? I do. Japan’s “Skinny and Fatty”

Posted on March 1, 2018 by rogerinorlando

Maybe you were exposed to something your parents were watching, in a theater or on TV, that had subtitles which you weren’t yet old enough to read. Possibly, you caught a late-night Italian, Spanish or French film dubbed into English, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A culture clash crush makes for twisted fun in “Oh Lucy!”

Posted on March 1, 2018 by rogerinorlando

Setsuko smokes so much that the Japanese mania for avoiding infection via publicly worn surgical masks seems pointless. A lonely, sullen salarywoman, she endures the almost hourly gifts of candy “for your cough” from her inane co-workers and trudges home … Continue reading →

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