Daily Archives: July 22, 2022

Movie Preview — Led Zeppelin sells “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves”

I must’ve skipped past this trailer three or four times figuring “just for some new incarnation of the game, meh.” Wishful thinking. Because then I remembered something about the movie being in the works, Chris Pine being REALLY anxious to … Continue reading

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Series Preview: The NEW Comic-Con “Lord of the Rings/Rings of Power” trailer

A Trailer a week, I figure, until this epic series comes to Amazon Sept. 2. It looks good, more human, I must say., if more than a little familiar.

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Netflixable? Second funniest film ever made on the Isle of Man? “Mindhorn”

What daft Manx nonsense is this? “Mindhorn” is a loopy British farce about a has-been TV star, his former co-star and girlfriend, his former stuntman and a real-life murder suspect so delusional he insists the actor play that part in … Continue reading

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Classic Film Review: There is but one “Zorba the Greek (1964)”

There are classic films, and among them are quintessential classics, the “life list” movies that every film fan has to know to be cineliterate. Among the latter, I’d list “Lawrence of Arabia,” “La Strada,” “The 400 Blows,” “The French Connection” … Continue reading

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Netflixable? Breaking the bank with Ryan and The Russos — “The Gray Man”

If “The Gray Man” does nothing else, Netflix’s latest blank-check action thriller is going rock the worlds of legions of Marvelettes, those fanatics who have been whining about the latest “Doctor Strange” and “Thor” on Twitter because, as one wag … Continue reading

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Movie Star Salaries? Tom Cruise — the $100 Million Man, and others

Variety must be worried worried about inflation. They’re publishing sketches of what actors are commanding for acting in movies, what Netflix is paying Hemsworth and Millie Bobby Brown, what Paramount spends to keep Tom Cruise happy. $20 million for Joaquin … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Wound up, wired and sprinting from high school consequences — “The Runner”

This is what privilege looks like…on drugs and dealing drugs in high school. The pretty boy/buzzed boy title character in “The Runner” was in “House of Gucci.” This one comes out Aug. 19.

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