Daily Archives: February 16, 2023

Movie Preview: The story of “Tetris,” with Taron Egerton

Finally, a video game movie we can all get behind. March 31, this bizarre tale of how “the perfect game” escaped from the Soviet Union and made Gameboy the toy of the decade, comes to Apple TV+.

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Movie Preview: Closing the sale, the “final” “John Wick: Chapter 4” trailer

March 24, the gangs all back — Keanu, Lance, Laurence and Ian, with a Skarsgård, a “Warriors” reference and a Donnie Yen. What the trailer doesn’t tell you? This beast is two hours and 49 minutes long.

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Movie Review: An Animated Refugee Odyssey based on Rumi — “Lamya’s Poem”

A Syrian refugee child finds comfort in the poetry, philosophy and biography of Jalaluddin Rumi in “Lamya’s Poem,” an engaging animated drama that compares its title character’s life and fate with that of her fellow refugee, a 13th century Persian … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Cole Hauser and Morgan Freeman hunt “The Ritual Killer”

Freeman plays the expert consulted by the cop (Hauser) tracking this bizarre, multi-continental murderer. March 10.

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Netflixable? Japanese teens fight a ghost who makes them “Re/Member”

I don’t think the Japanese title of “Re/Member” is as clever a pun as it is in English. As this is a horror tale of high school kids trapped by a ghost, doomed to search for and re-assemble the dismembered … Continue reading

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Movie Review: China’s WWII intrigues and treachery, fighting Japan with a “Hidden Blade”

Broadly speaking, China’s World War II began before anybody else’s, and ended with the conclusion of the long off-and-on Chinese Civil War that preceded it and postdated it. Any trip down the rabbit hole of the various Sino-Japanese wars, considered … Continue reading

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