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Monthly Archives: May 2023
Netflixable? You’d be well-advised not to kidnap HER kid on “Mother’s Day”
It’s important to know when to “drop the mike.” Know when to say “when,” don’t spoil a peak moment by trying to top it, and don’t clutter up your finale so badly it spoils the effect of the stand-up set, … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “The Starling Girl” runs afoul of the Fundamentalist Patriarchy
A teenage girl gives in to her hormones and to tempation and faces the fundamentalist consquences in “The Starling Girl,” an evocative, gripping and revealing drama about a strict upbringing and how it can backfire on the person being groomed. … Continue reading
Movie Preview: “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” shows the Seth Rogen touch
Well, children aren’t watching these guys any more, are they? So why not throw Seth Rogen and his partner in the profane Evan Goldberg at this material. Because there’s just not enough “dark” and edgy fanboy content in the movies … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
Sony’s effort to wholly blur the line between “comic book” and “comic book movie” comes to something like full fruition with “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” a mad cinematic jumble of comic book imagery, comic book mimicry, multiverse plotting and ponderous, … Continue reading
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“Spider Man,” when pigs or cats fly? In Tampa
This may start on time. Or not. Apparently, 24 locals somehow went to the wrong theater. “Tampa” in a nutshell.
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Next screening? “Spider-Man: Across the Spider Verse”
An unfortunate aesthetic and technical choice — an attempt to replicate a comic book dot-matrix printing style — rendered the first animated “Spider-Man/Spiderverse” outing painful for some to watch, me among them. It was literally headache-inducing, even without the multi-verse … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: A Trippy Kids’ Adventure to “The Secret Kingdom”
June 9, a little “Dark Crystal,” a bit of “Narnia,” a taste of “The Never Ending Story,” and a lot of reptilian CGI critters
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Classic Film Review: The Best “Emma” was named Paltrow (1996)
I’m hard-pressed to think of a big screen version of Jane Austen’s “Emma” that I didn’t adore. I loved “Clueless” and fell wholly into “It” girl Anya Taylor-Joy’s take on the character a couple of years back, “emma.” The TV … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Karma comes for “The Machine,” the shirtless funnyman who isn’t
I found an AMC “classic” (an old theater where they don’t fix that which is broken) near me and a matinee showing of comic Bert Kreischer’s “The Machine” that cost me a whopping $5.19. No, I’m not asking for my … Continue reading
Next screening? “The Machine”
Funny how the trailers had this coming out May 31, and Sony decided to sneak it out Memorial Day weekend instead. It’s doing decent business. Yeah, let’s go see this. No, I’m not proud.
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