Monthly Archives: October 2021

Movie Review: Catholic Scottish Schoolgirls get into trouble as “Our Ladies”

A lot more license might have been granted the randy, horny teenagers farce “Our Ladies” had it started life as a novel by a woma, and reached the big screen with, you know, a woman or two on the script … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Jake Gyllenhaal & Co. pull the heist in Michael Bay’s remake, “Ambulance”

It was a French thriller about 16 years ago, about a heist that goes wrong and ambulance that gets hijacked. Eiza Gonzalez, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, A Martine Garret Dillahunt and Devan Long flesh out the cast of this action packed … Continue reading

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Preview: Netflix’s live action vamp of “Cowboy Bebop” teases out

Interesting to see what they’re going for here. Sort of an anime rendered into live-action ’60s camp approach. November 19, John Cho & Co. (Daniella Pineda), drop this bounty hunter series adaptation onto Netflix.

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Series Preview: Kaepernick’s Odyssey: “Colin in Black and White”

This comes to Netflix next week. Curious to see it, because his image/message control has meant that we don’t hear him making statements or being interviewed. We just see memes and his latest message t-shirt, and gauge reaction to him … Continue reading

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More Beatles? Brian Epstein feature “Midas Man” cast

Jacob Fortune-Lloyd of TV’s “Queen’s Gambit” landed the lead. Here’s a look at him in character, and at the real Beatles manager Brian Epstein — dapper, gay, classy and canny — whom he’ll be playing. Rosie Day (“Outlander”) just joined … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, treasure hunters — “Uncharted”

A February 18 release with a lot of geography, exotic cultures, and Spider Man and Marky Mark. Looks…nuts. Bugs Bunny Physics, “National Treasure/Tomb-Raiders” plotting…

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Movie Preview: Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot and Dwayne Johnson — “Red Notice”

The director did “Dodgeball” and “We’re the Millers” and DJohnson’s “Central Intelligence” is behind this Netflix comedy/thriller, about an art thief hunted by Interpol, among others. We’ll see what Rawson Marshall Thurber finds funny in all this Nov. 12.

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Location Scout: Revisiting “The Quiet Man” corner of Ireland

In the late spring of 1951, John Ford and his repertory company decamped from Monument Valley and Hollywood and took passage — paid for by B-Western house Republic Pictures — to The Old Country, the Eire of John Ford’s imagination. … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Maggie Gyllenhaal directs “The Lost Daughter”

This Netflix drama stars Oscar winner Olivia Colman as a haunted mother of “two daughters” on holiday, running into a mother (Dakota Johnson) distracted and overwhelmed and perhaps disinterested in hers. Ed Harris, Peter Sarsgaard and Jessie Buckley also star … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: A pre Valentine’s Day bodice ripper — “Redeeming Love”

Given away, “groomed” for a 19th century life of prostitution, this adaptation of a Francine Rivers stars Abigail Cowen and features Famke Janssen as a villain. Jan. 21.

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