Monthly Archives: April 2022

Tonight’s screening? Liam Neeson is a hitman with “Memory” problems

Guy Pearce as a Fed. Thursday night as your opening. Love that Liam.

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Netflixable? “Hey! Sinamika” is a Tamil/Bollywood musical take on a Spanish rom-com

Who’d ever guess that buried beneath the Bollywood musical romance “Hey! Sinamika” there was an Argentine rom-com one third shorter, screaming “Aye, no puedo respirar!” This “Around the World with Netflix” marathon is an Indian romance about a woman who … Continue reading

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Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation launches a free online streaming series of restored films

This is pretty cool. Scorsese’s 32 year old film preservation nonprofit is going to be sharing restored films via it’s website, starting May 9. The first film will be an early work by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressberger, “I Know … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Don’t you dare pick up “The Black Phone”

Looks like “It.” Child abduction. With black balloons. Not red ones. And a more overtly Satanic clown. So of course it’s by the Son of Stephen King. The phone calls from other victims hook has a whiff of a Korean … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Lovesick lady seeks the “Good Life” in The Old Country — Greece

On a good vacation, time seems to stand still. You lose track of the days, the deadlines, the impending day of departure. “Good Life” is movie about such a getaway that mimics that stasis. And as anybody knows, “time seems … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: A Gen Y skewering “Whodunit” — “Bodies Bodies Bodies”

It’s “Girls Gone Wild” meets Pete Davidson. Let’s play a game, somebody died and ohmygodohmygodohmygid who did it, you guys? Aug 4, from A24

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Classic Film Review: One of the Great Labor Documentaries is restored — “The Wobblies (1979)”

“The One Big Union,” they called it, an organization that would represent every worker laboring for “The Man.” Unlike the “skilled labor” guilds of the earlier American Federation of Labor, it would take in everyone, including the the extreme exertion … Continue reading

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Movie Review: The Cruelest Coquette — “Anais in Love”

A generation ago, “Amelie,” the cheerful fantasy about a Paris coquette’s charmed life, became quite the five-time Oscar nominated punching bag, hated for its adorable and adorably-optimistic heroine. Coquettes got a bad name in the cinema after that. Gamines took … Continue reading

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Netflixable? A dark “State of the Polish Union” comedy, “The Land (Kraj)”

Four Polish filmmakers teamed up for the vengeful and funny “State of Polska” anthology film, “The Land,” a dark episodic comedy about people lashing out, using or abusing the law and punishing each other personally for their unhappiness. This Around … Continue reading

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Movie preview: Brace yourself for the twisted delights of “Flux Gourmet”

The new art film oddity from Peter Strickland (“The Duke of Burgundy”) enfolds art, performance art, haute cuisine and horror and comes out June 24.

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