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Daily Archives: August 17, 2023
Next screening? Let’s do that “Blue Beetle” in Regal 4DX
Warner Bros decided, after “The Flash,” to vastly reduce the number of cities they’d preview their products in. Vast swathes of the country were told “You don’t get to see “Barbie,” “The Meg 2” and now “Blue Beetle” in advance. … Continue reading
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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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