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Daily Archives: March 29, 2022
Movie Preview: Lena Headey is a hit-woman who saves a kid from “9 Bullets”
Film buffs will pick up on this as a sort of “Gloria” role, with Headey as the tough broad who softens when he sees the target is a little boy and his little dog. Sam Worthington plays the heavy, a … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Every night’s “The Long Night” with horror this unoriginal
Well, I’m fresh out of new ways to say “derivative,” “recycled,” “cut-and-pasted” and for old schoolers, “photocopied” or “carbon copy” about a movie without an original thought or image in its makeup. Looking for suggestions, as “The Long Night” pretty … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Allison Pill and Sarah Gadon, suicidal sisters who consider “All My Puny Sorrows”
This well-cast drama, based on a novel by Miriam Toews, also stars Mare Winningham and Donal Logue. “All My Puny Sorrows” streams its way to us May 3.
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Movie Preview: Well Go USA gives Shudder “The Long Night”
Not Well Go’s usual Asian-released-in-America fare, but a straight up supernatural North American horror movie. “The Long Night” comes to Shudder April 5.
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Netflixable? Caine, Courtenay and aged Brit-crooks try one last heist — “King of Thieves”
“In this game, there’s what you know, an’ what you DON’T know,” grizzled ex-con and OAP (Old Age Pensioner) Terry fumes in “King of Thieves.” And in a line that can be applied to all those too young to appreciate … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: “Top Gun: Maverick,” the second trailer
Tom Cruise & Co., buffing up for their Memorial Day debut. Lotta sizzle in here.
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Movie Review: Ukrainian satire “Donbass” skewers the Russian-backed “civil war” before the Russian invasion
“Donbass,” writer-director Sergey Loznitsa’s send up of the farcical Russian-backed “separatists” civil war of Eastern Ukraine, is framed by having its first and last scenes in a film production makeup trailer. “Actors” or “crisis actors,” we wonder as we ponder … Continue reading
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