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Daily Archives: July 8, 2021
Documentary Review: Body Image Battle is joined as “The Body Fights Back”
“Diets” have been around since the 16th century, but the tie-in to fitness is a more recent phenomenon. In the UK, “fit” became shorthand some years back for someone thin, not heavy, a euphemism for skinny and thus attractive. That … Continue reading
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Netflixable? A Bolshevik Batman? “Major Grom: Plague Doctor”
There are EIGHT credited screenwriters for “Major Grom: Plague Doctor.” You know what they call that in Mother Russia and its satellite state of Kentucky? SOCIALISM. Imagine a “Batman” in which Alfred the Butler is the real caped “crusader,” a … Continue reading
Movie Preview: Sarandon and J.K. Simmons make Jake Johnson “Ride The Eagle”
A bucket list inheritance comedy with a twist? July 30.
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Movie Preview: Ricci looks for love in the “Here After”
Dolled up and dead? July 23 this one hits theaters etc.
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Movie Preview: “Queenpins” pairs up Kristen Bell and Kirby Howell-Baptiste, and throws in…Vince Vaughn?
A September release about a multi million dollar coupon scam.
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Series Preview: Joseph Gordon Levitt is a teacher trying to cope — “Mr. Corman”
This hits Apple TV+ in late August. Interesting choice for JGL.
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Movie Review: Hard times make for Hard Crimes “Downeast”
“Downeast” is an indie thriller so simple as to be elemental. It’s about a small town under the thumb of a local gangster, a crime long-ago covered-up and heroin headed for Boston’s rough and ever-so-Italian “North End.” The setting, the … Continue reading
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Documentary Preview: Kilmer wants us to remember “Val,” then and now
A24 picked this up, it played at Cannes, and looks wonderful — an expansion of Kilmer’s recent breezy autobiography.
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