Daily Archives: January 16, 2021

Documentary Review: Retirees look for Paradise in Florida’s The Villages — “Some Kind of Heaven”

It used to be more pronounced, back when The Villages was a smaller, more compact enterprise. But the overwhelming first impression driving in is still very Patrick McGoohanish. As in, “The Prisoner.” As in “I am NOT a number, I … Continue reading

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Netflixable? Mackie stars in messy “Outside the Wire”

Anthony Mackie plays a robotic super soldier who develops an agenda of his own in “Outside the Wire,” a generic and draggy thriller built on firefights, digital effects and bad robot jokes. ‘”Did your motherboard freeze?” Stuff like that. Damson … Continue reading

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Documentary Review: Horror filmmaker braves the vicissitudes of the “Clapboard Jungle” of making movies today

It’s a miracle when anybody gets their first feature film made, a miracle that anybody not born into the business or with a silver spoon film school degree on their resume even gets a shot. If you knew the hell … Continue reading

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