Daily Archives: February 9, 2023

Movie Preview: Es los “Unicorn Wars,” Aye carumba!

Que horror! March 10, GKids unleashes this Spanish language animated…thriller?

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5 pm, Silver Spot Cinemas, Chapel Hill N.C. — “Magic Mike” Night

The distributing studio elected not to preview this anywhere in Florida outside of Miami. Even though the original story was set in TAMPA. Smaller cheaper cinemas along the NC/Va border are fearful of what message a movie about dudes who … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Sally Hawkins convinces Steve Coogan, and then us that she can find “The Lost King”

A lady with a bone to pick about the villainous role history has assigned Richard III, thanks in large part to Wm. Shakespeare, decides she can find out where the fellow is buried. Stephen Frears re-teams with Steve Coogan, his … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Allison Brie is Ms. Nuptials Interruptus, “Somebody I Used to Know”

By the time somebody on screen finally acknowledges that somebody else in “Somebody I Used Know” is doing “some Julia Roberts ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ s–t,” we’re already way ahead of her and this movie. That halfway-mark give-away is amusingly-late … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Affleck and Damon and Bateman and Viola as Michael’s mom reinvent sneakers –“AIR”

This Nike Air Jordan success story is slated for the first weekend in April, after March Madness, just as the NBA playoffs get rolling. And yes, the trailer suggests it pushes all the right buttons. April 5, Be Like Mike.

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Classic Film Review: O’Toole & Co. send up the foibles of “The Ruling Class” (1972)

It bowls the viewer over with ham-fisted, theatrical excess, a grandiose exclamation point on the tail end of the Golden Age of screen satire. Peter Barnes sees to it that his class-eviscerating theatrical talk-a-thon “The Ruling Class” makes it to … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Owen Wilson sends up Bob Ross? “Paint”

The names have been changed, but the PBS painter/mesmerizer and womanizer is plainly the inspiration for this one. And if there is a comic actor who more embodies the phrase “Happy little clouds” (probably copyrighted, almost certainly not in the … Continue reading

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