Daily Archives: June 21, 2022

That Ethan Hawke is ageless…

I mean, considering all the movies he’s smoked in, you’d think he’d look like that Gibson fella. Or, you know, a well used catcher’s mitt.

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Movie Review: “Fair dinkum,” Tarantino-approved, the Aussie Exploitation Thriller “Fair Game”

Quentin Tarantino has mentioned the down-and-dirty Outback thriller “Fair Game” as one of his inspirations for his “Grindhouse” segment, “Death Proof.” With cinemas starved for content, why not pull this woman-hunted-by-bogans (Aussie for “redneck goons”) out of cold storage for … Continue reading

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Movie Review: A Ukrainian gymnast is tested in competition, and by events back home — “Olga”

A young gymnast focused on getting to the Olympics faces the serious and deadly-personal distractions of unrest in her native Ukraine in “Olga,” an intimate and moving drama starring real-life Ukrainian gymnast Anastasiia Budiashkina. The first feature film from Swiss … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” comes to the big screen

“Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” is a charming little stop-motion animated project built on an Internet/Youtube sensation from long ago. Well, pre-Pandemic anyway. Dreamed up by Jenny Slate, then freshly-dropped from “Saturday Night Live” for dropping a live f-bomb, … Continue reading

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