Daily Archives: October 22, 2018

Movie Review: Redford gives us a Bank Robber in Winter in “The Old Man & the Gun”

Posted on October 22, 2018 by

You’d swear that Oscar winner Sissy Spacek is injuring herself, as big as her grin is and as long as she holds it. Danny Glover and Tom Waits may be old pros playing ex-cons, but there’s something just tickled about … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: Bogdanovich reminds us of the Genius of “The Great Buster”

Posted on October 22, 2018 by

Film fans revere Charlie Chaplin, but they — we — LOVE Buster Keaton. He was the embodiment of comic stoicism, an often hapless but never rattled “Great Stone Face” who never let on how funny he was or how hilarious … Continue reading →

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Preview, “The Prodigy” tries something new in a horror trailer

Posted on October 22, 2018 by

A child sitting with a psychotherapist (Colm Feore), hypnotized by the sound of his voice and the metronome he uses to put patients under. Not saying this trailer is particularly scary, but the concept is killer and it is most … Continue reading →

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Preview, Ansel Elgort lives a “double life” as “Jonathan”

Posted on October 22, 2018 by

This Nov. 16 thriller has a hint of Jekyll and Hyde about it. Ansel Elgort plays two brothers trapped inside the same body, living separate, contradictory lives. Elgort was just cast as “Tony” in the Spielberg “West Side Story” remake. … Continue reading →

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