Daily Archives: May 20, 2023

Movie Preview: “A Black Woman in a White Man’s World,” the Old West — Letitia Wright is “Surrounded”

Letitia Wright faces off with Jeffrey Donovan and Jamie Bell in this post-Civil War Western. The last film of Michael Kenneth Williams looks worth tracking down when it comes out in June.

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Netflixable? “Hellhole,” an old fashioned Polish Joke about Demonic Possession

What’s the difference between a Polish exorcism movie, and every other exorcism movie you’ve ever seen? In Poland, the priests and monks summon Satan so’s he can take over and begin his cloven-hoofed reign. “Hellhole” is a Polish exorcism thriller … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Mon dieu, who among us is truly “The Innocent (L’Innocent?)”

Actor (“Little Women,” “Rifkin’s Festival”) and sometime director (“A Faithful Man”) Louis Garrel manages some seriously deft misdirections in his droll, dark comedy “L’Innocent” (“The Innocent”). It’s a tale of love and grief, guilt and prison and ACTING, all folded … Continue reading

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BOX OFFICE: “Fast X” opens big, but not exactly huge — Gassed?

A twenty year old franchise that has been on cruise control, more or less, for a decade, appears to have hit a wall. “Fast X,” coming just a couple of years after the previous “Fast and the Furious” film, following … Continue reading

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