Daily Archives: February 17, 2022

Movie Review: Channing Tatum learns the perils of costarring with a “Dog”

There are times when watching “Dog” that one wonders if the directors realize who the star is and who has the title role. Because there are shots in the film where Channing Tatum, the co-star and second banana, is in … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Olympic Pressures, parental problems, and a swimmer just trying to “Streamline”

If you watch enough movies, you can spot a promising one in its opening scenes. And if it looks like it might be following a too-conventional path, you can’t help but wonder “How’re they going to make this surprising?” “Streamline” … Continue reading

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Oscar nominated “CODA” comes back to theaters

The gloriously human “CODA” comes back to theaters nationwide the weekend of Feb. 25-27, Apple announced today. In Orlando, this moving, funny, Oscar nominated coming of age as the hearing daughter of deaf parents tale will be the star attraction … Continue reading

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Netflixable? BDSM explained and neutered, “Love and Leashes”

“Love and Leashes” is the K-pop of BDSM comedies. It’s cute (ish), innocuous and so sexless as to seem neutered, in case you wondered how movie about bondage, leather and sado-masochistic “release” could garner a TV-14 rating. A demure Korean … Continue reading

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Movie Review: A Rock climber is chased onto “The Ledge”

The signs are all there — aggressive, hair-trigger-tempered creep comes on entirely too strong with women, bullies his friends. He demonstrates that rape is most definitely a crime of violence, the victim “falls” and the fact that she survives that … Continue reading

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Movie preview: Anybody buy Mark Wahlberg as “Father Stu?”

It’s a redemption story about a mug with dreams of stardom, who calls for a Catholic woman…and decided to become a priest? This is what we call “The Big Mistake Theory.” You make a big enough mistake (Charles Colson, et … Continue reading

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Movie preview: What might “Win a Trip to Browntown!” be about?

This looks scruffy and DIY and oh so lowbrow. March 22.

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