Daily Archives: December 15, 2020

Movie Review: Competing for the love of a vampire, “Climate of the Hunter”

Vampire flick aficionados should definitely drop in on “Climate of the Hunter,” a stylish, chatty and camp blood-sucking homage to “Dark Shadows” and the pretentious British films in the genre from the 1960s. Prolific Oklahoma indie filmmaker Mickey Reece even … Continue reading

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Netflixable? A Romeo out of Water comedy — “A California Christmas”

Netflix’s efforts to steal Hallmark Channel’s “Christmas wish-fulfillment romance” thunder get a boost from “A California Christmas,” a pleasant little nothing that would be right at home among Hallmark’s holiday flirtations-over-fruitcake romances. It’s the seriously good-looking stars of “Roped,” now … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “Skylines” goes all “Starship Troopers” in its third outing

There are outtakes at the end of “Skylines,” aka “Skylin3s,” cast members crack up at all the silly, pithy, cliche one-liners common to the sci-fi action genre. That’s fitting, because there’s no sterner test than keeping a straight face while … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Holocaust Survivor Asner teaches a punk to find her “Tiger Within”

In “Tiger Within” Edward Asner plays a Holocaust survivor who takes an interest in and eventually takes in a runaway, a Midwestern teen punk who drew a swastika on her leather jacket for shock effect. The product of a broken … Continue reading

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