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Monthly Archives: October 2023
Movie Review: Commandos Pettyfer and Rathbone face the Terrors of “Black Noise”
The easiest “tell” when you’re trying to figure out if what you’re watching is a B-movie or something further down the action budget alphabet is in the effects. How do the gunshots look and sound? How realistic is the bloody … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: “Good Burger 2” reunites Kenan and Kel
I think it’s safe to lay credit…or blame for this kid-friendly comedy at the feet of Keke Palmer. She hosted “SNL” and if memory serves, she not only inspired the sketch below, she’s the one who pushed for a little … Continue reading
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Movie Review” Awkwafina and Sandra Oh hunt for sisterly laughs in “Quiz Lady”
You have never seen Sandra Oh like this. The “Sideways/Killing Eve/The Same Storm” dramatic star has given us a dose of deadpan, here and there. But in “Quiz Lady,” she vamps through a ditzy, unfiltered and comically mercurial turn as … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Kenneth More keeps a stiff upper lip in the class war comedy “The Admirable Crichton”
What a shock to the British system the satire “The Admirable Crichton” must have been when it premiered on stage in 1902. Written by J.M. Barrie, the Scottish novelist and playwright who had himself quite a year in 1902 — … Continue reading
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Movie Review: In this heat wave, “The Elderly (Viejos)” don’t suffer alone
The Spanish thriller “Viejos,” aka “The Elderly,” is a creepy, doom-laden sci-fi parable that doesn’t quite close the deal, a film of slow-building suspense whose climax lacks the clarity of intent and the level of terror in the performances to … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley and Timothy Spall fret over “Wicked Little Letters”
Foul-mouthed Olivia and fouler-mouthed Jessie. A period piece about profane postal espistles that piss off…scandalize a quaint corner of Britannia. Looks nasty, and funny.
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Netflixable? Slick but meandering “Pain Hustlers” pimps profiteers from the Opioid Epidemic
“Pain Hustlers” is a “true story” inspired drama whose tone and story arc match that of the real “triumph of medicine” to “tragedy invented by Big Pharma” saga of opioids, the “pain” drug that many maintain “broke America.” The film … Continue reading
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BOX OFFICE: A Terrible Terror Tale Takes Over — “Five Nights at Freddy’s” doubles the Halloween Record
Almost all the reviews of the video game adaptation “Five Nights at Freddy’s” have been bad. Awful. Or in one case, calling it just the worst. But Universal/Blumhouse had a killer premise, good trailers and when I left the theater … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Cena and Brie and Raba makes Three in the Action Comedy “Freelance”
Colombian-born Spanish actor Juan Pablo Raba vamps, flashes his teeth, sings a bit and wears the icecream-colored suit of a Central American dictator with panache in “Freelance,” a very dumb John Cena action comedy that Raba pretty much steals. “You … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Five Nights at Freddy’s” is about Four “Nights” too Many
Characters have a blase, matter-of-fact acceptance of the central premise of the horror video game turned film “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” that a threadbare animatronic band of characters from a long-closed pizza joint have supernaturally come to life. You can … Continue reading