Monthly Archives: May 2022

Movie Preview: Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening are “Jerry & Marge Go Large” in this LOTTO comedy

Michael McKean, Rainn Wilson and Larry Wilmore are among the co-stars this June 17 release has to offer. It’s a true story about a mathematical flaw in a particular corner of the lottery, and a math whiz who exploits it. … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Widowed Idris and his kids face “Beast”

Sharlto Copley co-stars in this safari-gone-wrong thriller, featuring doting dad Idris Elba struggling to save his kids from a monstrous and ever-so-digital lion. August 19.

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Movie Preview: Vietnamese sci-fi for kids “Maika: The Girl from Another Galaxy”

Well Go USA is putting this Sundance pic in theaters — some theaters anyway — June 3. Looks cute.

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Netflixable? The climactic anti-climax that is “Jackass 4.5”

For everyone who chose not to chance COVID and show up in theaters to make “Jackass Forever” a box-office-boosting hit back in February, I get it. One could get downright sentimental over the idea that these lovable louts literally saved … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Airmen taste forbidden love in the Soviet Bloc — “Firebird”

The Cold War Soviet military provides a high-stakes backdrop for “Firebird,” the true story of a gay romance in a place where homosexuality wasn’t merely shunned and shamed, it was forbidden and persecuted. It’s a policy that returned under the … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Earth’s Salvation or Demise Could come from the space station called “Rubikon”

A little IFC Midnight sci Fi horror for you. Coming soon.

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Movie Preview: It’s Gabriel Byrne vs Thomas Jane in Murder at Yellowstone City”

Richard Dreyfuss, Anna Camp and Isaiah Mustafa saddle up — or sit and shoot — in this Western due out June 24.

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Movie Review: Two against the (Swiss) prison system — “Caged Birds”

Switzerland’s “Escape King,” a bourgeois-born career criminal who declared “I like to steal my luxury,” and a sickly, crusading leftist lawyer who fell for him would seem an unlikely pair to hang a story about the pursuit of justice, human … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: “Thor: Love and Thunder,” ex girlfriend, “Sweet child ‘O Mine”

Bale and Taika and Tessa. Natalie’s back? And golly, Russell Crowe? Fun fun fun. July 8.

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Netflixable? In this Egyptian comedy, a lot can go wrong in “One Second”

“One Second” is an often loud, generally goofy Egyptian comedy of the High Concept school. It’s no better and not really any worse than a lot of similar Hollywood farces built on similarly silly concepts. But the novelty of it … Continue reading

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