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Daily Archives: August 19, 2021
Movie Review: A little too seasoned to be just “The Protege”
Maggie Q returns to “Nikita” territory with “The Protege,” playing a sexy and exotic assassin not unlike her best known TV role. It’s her latest lead, part of a run that included “Fantasy Island,” “Death of Me” and “The Argument,” … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: The ever so British terror of “Martyrs Lane”
This one streams on Shudder Sept.9, at the start of the Halloween horror season.
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Netflixable? Sickly Italian wallflower chases guy “Out of My League (Sul più bello)”
Comically flat, emotionally thin but not-entirely-charmless, “Out of My League” is a distinctly Italian take on young love shadowed by terminal illness. Like more than one Italian film that I’ve taken in as we journey “around the world with Netflix,” … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Aubrey Plaza and Michael Caine on a book tour from Hell — “Best Sellers”
Cary Elwes as a New York Times book critic? Will he survive his encounter with the grizzled, grumpy and soused old coot Caine plays in this Sept. 17 comedy?
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Movie Preview: Marvel goes to the Well again, “Eternals”
They gave Oscar winner Chloe Zhao (“Nomadland”) her biggest check, lined up Jolie and Hayek as “names” and pulled together an “X-Men: First Class” sized ensemble of young superheroes to be super-heroic. Gemma Chan, Brian Tyree Henry, Barry Keoghan, Kit … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Blade Runner?” “Westworld?” “Altered States?” Forgettable “Reminiscence” recalls its betters
Embrace the “Blade Runner” sci-fi noir look, the post apocalyptic gloom and the embittered voice-over of the jaded hero, and you can roll with the punches “Reminiscence” throws at you. For a while, anyway. “Nothing is more addictive than the … Continue reading
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