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Monthly Archives: March 2023
Movie Review: “Stalker” talker and slow-walker
Whoa, did NOT see that coming. I mean, it only took 75 minutes for something, ANYthing to happen in this 93 minute picture. And when it did, boy oh boy. Just kidding. That was a letdown, too. “Stalker” is a … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Joel Edgerton is Paul Schrader’s idea of a “Master Gardener”
This May 16 release from Magnolia adds another credit to Schrader’s starling third act “comeback” of a career. Sigourney Weaver also stars. We also hear there’s an anti-vaxxer in the supporting cast. Just judging from that person’s tweets.
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Documentary Review: Alex Gibney swings for Boris — “Boom Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker”
Boris Becker — Wimbledon Champion at 17, retired tennis idol at 29, broke and tossed in a British prison at 54. That’s the story the world’s greatest investigative documentarian, Alex Gibney, sets out to tell and the subject he tries … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: At long last, Kelly Reichardt’s “Showing Up” shows up
The director of “Wendy & Lucy,” which starred Michelle Williams and a missing dog, now has this small stakes art world dramedy slated for April 7 in LA, NYC, wider later in the month. Michelle Williams, Hong Chau and Judd … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “A Good Person,” a hit-and-miss star vehicle for Pugh and Freeman
“A Good Person,” which earned a token, desultory release from MGM, is more than its novelty of being a film that Florence Pugh made for her then writer-director beau, Zach Braff, prior to breaking up. It’s a see-saw of emotions, … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Damon, Affleck, Tucker, Bateman and Davis cut a deal for “Air” Jordans
“Air” is a beautifully featherweight triumph of “on-the-nose” casting. Need a guy to play a folksy spinner of anecdotes, a gambler and maker of speeches who converts the Non-Believers? Matt Damon, who has spent his career (“Good Will Hunting,” “Rounders,” … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Tom & Tilda & Jeffrey Wright join Wes Anderson’s company for “Asteroid City”
UFOs and aliens and A Bomb tests in the 1950s desert make up the weekends of Anderson’s latest, opening June 16. All star cast, not a lot of laughs in this first trailer, but you get the idea. “Twee” as … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Remembering a hot Disco Era record label, “Spinning Gold”
Perhaps you’re not of a mind that a short-lived record label run by an all-in music biz gambler of the ’70s is a subject worthy of a two hour and seventeen minute musical bio-pic. But that just means you’re not … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A Sentimental gay-rom about aging out of cruising — “Chrissy Judy”
In life, it happens gradually. But in the movies, one day a character wakes up and realizes she or he isn’t in sync with or even aware of “what the kids are into these days.” That’s the subtext of actor … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Vietnamese “Furies” set their sights on Vengeance
“Furies” is a lurid, ultraviolent Vietnamese thriller about a quartet of women assembled to take down a Saigon crime lord by hitting him where it hurts — killing off his henchmen in ones, twos, or big bunches. Yes, characters refer … Continue reading
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