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Daily Archives: April 29, 2021
Movie Preview: The Japanese WWII thriller “The Great War of Archimedes” — coming in May
What an interesting pitch for a movie. Pre-war Japan fights over the MATH of building superbattleships like the Yamato and Musashi. Color me “intrigued.”
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Classic Documentary Review: “The New Deal for Artists” (1976)
“The New Deal for Artists” was a mid-70s documentary for public television that gathered many of the folks who benefited from Franklin Roosevelt’s assorted New Deal work projects to talk about how that Great Depression “put people back to work” … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Statham and Ritchie, Red Band “Wrath of Man”
May 7, a heist goes wrong and vengeance is mine, sayeth the Stath.
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Movie Review: Jordan dives into Clancyland, “Tom Clancy’s ‘Without Remorse'”
Heroes with skills, stealth and unimpeachable integrity, able to access vast Intel resources without a whole lot of effort, “ops” that go like clockwork until that moment they don’t and murky values and motives from those “On High” — welcome … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: “The Lady Vanishes (1938),” Hitchcock films a farce
The director later known as “The Master of Suspense” never lost his sense of humor. But it rather curdled into something dry and droll by the time he filmed “The Trouble With Harry” and his last “action comedy,” “North by … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Walken vs Monsanto, “Percy vs. Goliath”
Truth be told, Christopher Walken has always worn his pants grandpa-high, his hats a little out-of-date. And he’s always grown a mean goatee, even in his silvery “legend of the cinema” years. So it’s no stretch thinking of him as … Continue reading
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