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Daily Archives: August 11, 2023
BOX OFFICE: “Voyage of the Demeter” sinks, “Barbie” blows past half a $billion, “Oppenheimer” and “TMNT: Mutant Mayhem” abide
Gothic horror period pieces, even violent R-rated ones, prove a hard sell as the low-star-power “The Voyage of the Demeter” didn’t make it to the $1 million mark on in Thursday night previews. A $750K take points to an opening … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: McGoohan and Mingus in a Jazz “Othello” — “All Night Long” (1962)
With those darting eyes, sinister glare and a voice that could cut leather, Patrick McGoohan was an actor born to play Iago. But the only time the American-born, British-and-Irish-raised star of “Danger Man” (“Secret Agent Man” in the States), “The … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Gal G. goes Super Secret Agent in “Heart of Stone”
Another month, another bloated but watchable big bang of a Netflix action movie. Gal Gadot stars in “Heart of Stone,” a sort of “Kingsmen” riff on all-knowing/all-powerful off-the-books secret agents and their secret agency menaced by even more secretive evil … Continue reading
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Movie Review: The Discreet Charms of Burnley, UK and the “Bank of Dave”
What late summer crumpet of cute is this? “Bank of Dave” is an adorably plucky feel-good story from Across the Pond, a “true-ish” tale of hidebound, class-divided Britain and small town neighborliness and compassion confronting a literal “Old Boy’s Club” … Continue reading
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