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Daily Archives: December 22, 2022
Movie Review: Young Teens’ lives are upended, but Maybe “1-800-Hot-Nite” can help
A hormonal kid sees his parents and baby brother hauled off by the police and relies on his equally clueless peers and a phone sex operator for guidance in the unlikely one-night odyssey “1-800-Hot-Nite.” It’s not exactly a breakout film … Continue reading
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RIP Mike Hodges, Brit director of Caine and Clive Owen thrillers and “Flash Gordon”
Mike Hodges, a British filmmaker of some repute who made key films in the careers of Michael Caine (“Get Carter”) and Clive Owen (“Croupier”) has died at the ripe old age of 90. He did “The Terminal Man” and “Flash … Continue reading
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The uproar over “Nepo Babies,” in and out of Hollywood
As the author of this New York Mag piece and its accompanying genealogy chart acknowledges, show business isn’t the only place nepotism exists in the American “meritocracy.” An early direct encounter I had with that was lightly mocking, when in … Continue reading
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Netflixable? “Blade of the 47 Ronin” is just “Blade,” only sillier
Boy, the things fanboys will sit through just to see Japanese women in short skirts and knee-boots fight it out with samurai swords. The things screenwriters have to do to set a samurai sword-fighting movie in cheap-to-film-in Budapest. The skills … Continue reading
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