Daily Archives: August 17, 2023

Classic Film Review: Hitchcock Lite by Dickens-Lover David Lean — “Madeleine”

For a filmmaker who came from the world of editing to create a string of visually striking films, several of them epics and more than a couple regarded as masterpieces, “Madeleine” stands out as a venture that wasn’t as “David … Continue reading

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Netflixable? A Hospital faces a Pandemic in the “Eye of the Storm”

“Eye of the Storm” is a Taiwanese disaster movie built around a pandemic and set inside a hospital. The coronavirus of this outbreak was SARS –Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome — which burst out of Asia in the spring of 2003. … Continue reading

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Movie Review: A Low-Budget tale of “PigLady” Horror, with Predictable Results

The true story of a pig farmer who killed hired hands and fed them to her hogs becomes an amateurishly awful thriller in the hands of first-time feature director Adam Fair, as “PigLady” fails in pretty much every way a … Continue reading

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Movie Review: These “Strays” talk dirty and play “ruff”

The f-bomb is dropped 15 times before the opening credits of “Strays,” a raunchy new talking-dogs comedy that’s sort of “The Incredible Journey” without Disney, an “Incredible Journey Through Profanity and Every Vulgar and Gross Thing Dogs Do.” Will Forte, … Continue reading

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Documentary Preview: An “Indiana Jones” scientist ahead of the Curve — “Canary”

This looks good and damned timely, I must say, an appreciation of a pioneer in his field, Dr Lonnie Thompson, who documented climate history via ice core samples Sept 15, this comes to NYC and LA. Sept 20, it comes … Continue reading

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