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Daily Archives: August 27, 2022
Movie Preview: Ryan Kwanten joins Dermot and Dolph and Mickey in “Section 8”
Sept 23, in a cinema near you. A little “get you outta prison to join our special ops” thriller. Never seen THAT before…
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Movie Preview: Allison Janney goes all “Gloria” when a kid is “Taken” — “Lou”
Netflix has this one, which co-stars Journee Smollett as the neighbor/single mom whose kid might have been swiped to smoke out the bad ass retiree with “special skills” that the Oscar-winning Janney plays. Sept. 23. I may have to get … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Jon Hamm answers the call, “Confess, Fletch”
Cute take on the novels that became a Chevy Chase franchise way back in the day — until nobody wanted to work with Chevy Chase any more. This is another Gregory McDonald book, about murders and art theft, very cinematic … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: The First “Last of the Mohicans” (1920)
All the Twitter talk about Michael Mann’s “Heat” prequel novel and when it might be turned into a film has had me quipping “I’m holding out for his ‘FIRST of the Mohicans’” more times than the joke can stand. I … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Martial Artist learns the Secret Power of Weed from “The Smoke Master”
The classic handicap of any “stoner comedy” is the expectations the filmmakers often put on the audience. If you’re coming to a stoner comedy, what you want out of it and what they need out of you is kind of…baked … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Don DeLillo’s epic novel “White Noise” lures Driver, Baumbach and a big check from Netflix
A classic, National Book Award-winning, satiric, career-launching post-modern novel, the film version reunites director Noah Baumbach and his “While We’re Young/Marriage Stories” star Adam Driver, and gives Driver his first Middle Aged Man role, that of a death-obsessed college professor … Continue reading
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“Live and Let Die,” because they don’t make Bond pictures like this anymore, baby
I think about this bit of stuntman derring do every time I see “Beast,” or any digital lion, bear, gator, croc or dog on the screen. You think it’s more faked than it actually was. Nuh-uh.
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Movie Review: Stallone, the AARP Action Superhero — “Samaritan”
As it drifts on well past its expiration date, the great Schwarzenegger/Stallone rivalry still has its unfinished business. Until now. At long last Sly Stallone has his “Last Action Hero,” an action pic — in this case a superhero story … Continue reading
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