Daily Archives: November 8, 2023

Movie Review: Vet wants to find a dead comrade “A Place in the Field”

Veteran takes a road trip for “one last mission” is such a common plot that such missions have included not just visiting a fellow soldier or a fallen comrade’s family, but Channing Tatum playing a soldier delivering a service “Dog.” … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Tina Fey’s back for “Mean Girls,” the musical

Jan. 12, Fey and Jon Hamm and Jenna Fischer join the “Mean Girls” for the musical made from the Tina Fey/Lindsay Logan hit comedy of a long time time ago. Fresh? “Fetch.” Jan.12.

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Movie Review: Flashy Effects and Fizzy Fun save “The Marvels”

By now, the studio-as-multiverse that is Marvel has so cluttered up its franchises, timelines, characters and platforms those characers are seen on that only hardcore devotees can come close to keeping it all straight. God knows Marvel isn’t. As their … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Dissecting a Marriage in Court via the “Anatomy of a Fall”

Who knows what goes on in a marriage and how others might interpret that? That’s the crux of the French drama “Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d’une chute),” a “Marriage Story/Scenes from a Marriage” examined by the legal system via … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Meg and Duchovny play old lovers pondering “What Happens Later”

There’s undeniable pleasure in sitting back and taking in the witty, overlapping banter, the chemistry and the “history” — pleasant and uncomfortable — that screen veterans Meg Ryan and David Duchovny serve up in “What Happens Later.” But that’s basically … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Anime in understated cliches — “The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes”

“The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes” is a poetic, understated anime romance about “first love” and fulfilling your heart’s desire via a supernatural tunnel. That’s a place where time stands still as you reconcile yourself with your past, … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: It’s Sigmund vs. C. S. in “Freud’s Last Session”

Christmas is an apt time for any movie about Christianity’s most eloquent apologist. Anthony Hopkins has played both real people in this story about a meeting between the “Narnia” novelist (Matthew Goode) and the esteemed Dr. Freud. Looks promising. No, … Continue reading

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