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Monthly Archives: April 2023
Movie Preview: Jon Hamm and Tina Fey are on the trail of whoever is killing “Maggie Moore(s)”
This “Columbo” styled thriller — we see the killing(s), and wonder if the cop (Hamm) or the relative (Fey) will figure out who did it, and why — co-stars Nick Muhammed and comes our way June 16. I think it … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Dame Maggie, Kathy Bates and Laura Linney visit Lourdes — “The Miracle Club”
Stephen Rea also stars in this summer release from Sony Pictures Classics. Veteran Irish filmmaker Thaddeus O’Sullivan (“Into the Storm,””Stella Days” and “Nothing Personal”) is behind the camera. Looks slight but sweet.
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BOX OFFICE: “Super Mario Bros.” won’t give up the Box Office crown until “Guardians/Vol. 3” opens, “Margaret” and “George Foreman” underwhelm
Universal’s Illumination release “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” continues to rake in the cash, taking the top spot this weekend with a $37 million-and-change run, “best fourth weekend ever” for an animated feature, Deadline.com says. It has raced over the … Continue reading
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Book Review: Sammy Davis Jr. and “The Long Civil Rights Era” — “Dancing Down the Barricades”
The image might be the way most of us remember that consummate showman, the entertainer’s entertainer, Sammy Davis Jr. He’s laughing, often as not surrounded by white actors, singers, comics or politicians — some of them his peers — most … Continue reading
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Movie Review: The Lumbering Charms of “Big George Foreman”
“Big George Foreman” is a movie that mimics its title character to a T. Like the fighter himself, it’s big and bloated and ungainly on its feet, but with a gentle charm that made this boxing legend, owner of the … Continue reading
Movie Review: The Chinese “Top Gun” comes to the West — “Born to Fly”
Hollywood’s idea of a “Top Gun” is a somewhat short action tyro who isn’t shy about hitting the gym, driving his motorcycle without a helmet or doing his own stunts. Some of China’s top guns, cast in “Born to Fly,” … Continue reading
Movie Review: “Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3” Takes a Sharper Turn Towards Serious
It’s safe to say that “Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3” is an emotional roller-coaster, a fan-friendly ride through “the feels” that puts our motley, space-traveling crew in peril and revisits old trauma as it does. If you’re the least … Continue reading
Netflixable? Undercover, making mayhem, trafficking in cliches — “AKA”
“AKA” is a solid if generally unsurprising terrorist thriller built around a French undercover killing machine with “particular skills.” “Lost Bullet” actor turned star and screenwriter Alban Lenoir leans on genre formula tropes and thriller cliches entirely too much in … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: “The Hunger Games” return, “The Ballad of the Songbird”
New cast, Nov 17 holidays release date. They’re expecting big things. Not sure anybody asked for this, but you know the suits loved what the earlier films did for their bottom line.
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Movie Review: “Peter Pan & Wendy,” again
The hardest hurdle for any new take on Peter Pan to overcome is simply justifying its reason to exist. There have been many Peters, many Wendys and many Captain Hooks. We’ve seen the story told this way and that, from … Continue reading