Daily Archives: June 1, 2022

Movie Review: A Tiny Tyke Drifts through stop-motion-animated Purgatory — “Moon Garden”

In the dozen years since his non-starter first feature film, “Virus X,” writer-director Ryan Steven Harris has found his muse. It is his little girl, Haven Lee Harris. He’s made a short with the redheaded moppet, “Every Child is a … Continue reading

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Movie Review: A French Sci-fi Western Set on a Planet of Lesbians — “After Blue (Dirty Paradise)”

There’s a secret language shared by filmmakers and critics, words and phrases that connect an “I’m not sure what I meant” with “I really don’t what know to make of it” when it comes to movies. The code phrases turn … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Anya Taylor-Joy should check “The Menu” twice, if Ralph Fiennes is the chef

Yowza. Nicholas Hoult, Janet McTeer and John Leguizamo also star in this fine dining fall thriller with a horror pedigree.

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Movie Review: Slow and Sordid Slaughter in the Southwest — “Frank & Penelope”

Of all the promising places “Frank & Penelope” hints at or threatens to take us, how’d they end up at a murderous “sin eater” cult at a combo tow truck service, garage and motel — complete with a tunnel and … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Hanks, Erivo and…Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Jiminy Cricket? Disney’s live action “Pinnoochio”

Lorraine Bracco, Keegan Michael Key and Luke Evans also star in this Robert Zemeckia (Remember him?) film. Sept 8.

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