Daily Archives: June 9, 2022

Movie Preview: Brace yourself for “Paws of Fury: The legend of Hank”

Michael Cera and Samuel L Jackson in the same (animated) movie? Sequel? Shut the front door! July 15.

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Movie Preview: In the Korean Underworld, debts are “Paid in Blood”

Sure, Well Go USA picks these films up for North American distribution. But in the rest of the world, the label putting the film in theaters or on home video says it all. “Hi-YAH!” Love that, even though the martial … Continue reading

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Classic Film Review: “Cairo Station” (1958), a landmark Egyptian thriller now Netflixable

Egyptian cinema — born shortly after the Europe and Hollywood’s film emergence, was already mature enough to produce its “Golden Age,” in the 1950s. That’s the era when it produced its first international screen icon, the great Omar Shariff. Youssef … Continue reading

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“Jurassic World Dominion” — after the credits?

There’s nothing. Go home. Let them clean the theater for the next showing. I stayed. I know.

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Movie Preview: Keke Palmer is ON FIRE in this final trailer for Jordan Peele’s “Nope”

Keke, Daniel Kaluuya, Michael Wincott, Steven Yuen, Brandon Perea and Keith David and “aliens” waiting for humans to finally film “the money shot.” July 22.

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Movie Review: Amnesiac mother, her missing child, an exorcist and a hypnotist wonder what’s coming “On the 3rd Day”

Argentine filmmaker Daniel De La Vega runs a lot of standard horror tropes through a South American filter in “On the 3rd Day,” a well-mounted by seriously-unsurprising demonic possession thriller. When the old man, Enrique (Gerardo Romano) takes a call … Continue reading

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British cinemas cave to Islamic Fundamentalist Protests of “The Lady of Heaven”

No! NOBODY saw this coming! The faith-based biographical drama “The Lady of Heaven” has faced sanction and banning, even having its trailers banned, in pretty much the entire Islamic world. Now Muslim protesters, calling it “blasphemous,” have gotten it yanked … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: “Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel”

Of course Stones Fanatic Martin Scorsese produced this look inside the “Chelsea drug store.” A notorious landmark of rock history is explored in this documentary, coming out July 8. Cannot wait to see it, and hopefully Magnolia Pictures won’t make … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: In Oscilloscope’s “Clara Sola,” a Costa Rican longs for a better life

A life limited by poverty and rigidly patriarchal Catholicism is what Clara always has. Does her niece, about to have her quincenera, deserve better? This one opens July1.

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