Monthly Archives: November 2022

Movie Review: A missing girlfriend, a mobster and the drug called “Vide Noir”

The band Lord Huron has produced, I guess, this trippy feature film inspired by their album “Vide Noir.” And for the record, the music’s pretty cool, kind of twangy “Twin Peaks” ethereal, unmoored in time, fitting for a pseudo-psychedelic film … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry take us down a broken road — “Causeway”

She’s a veteran of the Afghanistan occupation, recovering from problems physical and mental, finishing up physical therapy for one, taking “‘don’t shoot yourself in the head’ kind of medicine” for the other. He’s a sad-eyed mechanic with a prosthetic leg. … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Brendan Fraser’s big comeback comes in Darren Aronofsky’s Oscar contender — “The Whale”

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Movie Review — A Bloody, Funereal Sequel — “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

The “Black Panther” movie in which we say goodbye to the character as he once was and the actor who played him might rightly be expected to be a journey through grief. But while Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: A far more tantalizing “Glass Onion/Knives Out” trailer

This latest taste of a murder mystery set during a murder mystery weekend plays up the ensemble more than Daniel Craig. Norton and Janelle Monae and Kate Hudson and reaction screams from Kathryn Hahn, Bautista…they all get their moments. . … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “The Willowbrook”

Every filmmaker hopes to get a rise out of her or his audience, to provoke us in some way or other, push our buttons. So writer-director Zach Koepp can take a bow for achieving that, at least, with his debut … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Breaking up is hard to do…in the middle of a “Bar Fight!”

“Bar Fight!” is an 84 minute long break-up “Who gets custody of ‘our‘ regular bar?” comedy that hits the wall at about the 30 minute mark. Writer-director Jim Mahoney did the offbeat friends playing-a-game comedy “Gatlopp,” sort of “Jumanji” for … Continue reading

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Netflixable? That “Law unto herself” is back — “Enola Holmes 2”

Sure, it’s more juvenile. Some of the comedy’s a bit broader. And heaven knows, that star Millie Bobby Brown takes a few extra “fourth wall” moments — staring, puzzled, amused, alarmed or self-satisfied at the camera. But “Enola Homes 2” … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: A piece of erased French history — a colorful “Chevalier” of color

Kelvin Harrison, Jr. has the title role, that of “Chevalier de Saint-Georges,” fiddler and swordsman Joseph Bologne, playing and competing his way into royal circles in pre-Revolutionary France. Samara Weaving, Lucy Boynton, Ronke Adekoluejo and Minnie Driver also star, playing … Continue reading

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