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Daily Archives: February 5, 2023
Movie Preview: Wasikowska, Radha and Bana and a Teen Girl who wants to save a “Blueback”
Now THIS is how you cut a feel-good movie trailer with a kid, a cause and wildlife. Radha Mitchell plays the mum, Ilsa Fogg young Abby, Mia Wasikowska as our crusading girl as an adult, and Eric Bana as a … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Matthau Stars, Directs and flirts with his future wife in “Gangster Story” (1959)
It’s funny to think about how late Hollywood was in figuring out Walter Matthau was a natural comic actor. For the first couple of decades of his film and TV career, nobody thought to let him go for a laugh. … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Christoph Waltz, Sam Neill, Patrick Gibson and Sophie Wilde consider “The Portable Door”
Miranda Otto also stars in this “Time Bandits” meets “The Adjustment Bureau” fantasy about a corporation that fiddles with fate via a sort of “Jumpers” gimmick of a door that parks you hither and yon on demand. This Sky TV … Continue reading
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Movie Review: 1999 BFFs try to cope with life’s “Millennium Bugs”
“Millennium Bugs” is a murky look back at Y2K Eve, a comedy that struggles to find laughs in end-of-the-90s fashions, slang and panic over what the world might look like when computers glitch as the year 2000 begins. It’s a … Continue reading
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