Daily Archives: October 1, 2023

A Winter Garden (Fla.) Premiere of “Pre Fab!” a tale of the pre Beatles Quarrymen

My old friend Todd Thompson, an Orlando filmmaker who struck gold with a Nichelle Nichols doc “Woman in Motion” that every “Star Trek” fan saw, is back with a Beatles before they were The Beatles film. His doc “Pre Fab!” is … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Savage and Stylish Serial Killer Thriller from Hong Kong — “Limbo”

“Limbo” is a darker-than-dark Hong Kong serial killer thriller in the “Se7en” mold — formulaic, but brutish and bleak and bloody-minded. Veteran director Pou-Soi Cheang (the “Monkey King” action pics were his) shows us a Hong Kong rarely seen on … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “Saw X” just goes through the motions…again

Quick show of hands, anybody frightened, shocked or spooked by the tenth torture porn tale in the “Saw” franchise? Sure, it’s great seeing Tobin Bell back as the original “moral” judge, jury, torturer and exucutioner Jigsaw, aka John Kramer, here … Continue reading

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Movie Review: A Duck Dynasty’s origin myth is related in “The Blind”

If Oprah taught us anything, it’s that we’re all the heroes of our own narrative and entitled to speak our “Truth.” So let’s give Louisiana’s Robertson clan, who brought camo, duck calls, huntin’ and fishin’ and Z.Z. Top beards into … Continue reading

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