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Daily Archives: November 16, 2023
Movie Preview: Dakota Johnson Joins the MCU as “Madame Web”
Sony works works works its Spidery side of the Marvel street, adding this to “Spider-Man” in all its incarnations (and “Venom” too). A paramedic who starts “having visions” and takes a turn to the superheroic. I like the way the … Continue reading
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Next screening? Finding new love, grappling with the past, “All of Us Strangers”
A film festival favorite from Searchlight pictures, this dreamy drama is about meeting someone, and having that trigger what appears to be a reconnection with parents who died years before but are back — frozen in time. This trailer makes … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Teens come of age on and off the pitch, but will they be friends “Forever?”
“Forever” is a Swedish coming-of-age-in-soccer drama that breaks just enough of the conventions of the genre to feel new and novel. There is a third act “Big Game,” but is takes a back seat to the human drama playing out … Continue reading
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Movie Review: No Jimmy Stewart this time, because “It’s a Wonderful Knife”
Before you write a script or even a plot, you have a “conceit,” and before you can make your movie, you have a “pitch.” And it’d better be a killer. That’s all “It’s a Wonderful Knife” is — a conceit … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Pierce Brosnan is a hitman who lost a victim’s head — Fast Charlie”
So he needs the guy’s ex wife to ID…the rest of the body so’s he can get paid? A hitman that long in the tooth is going to forget things. Not sure if and when this will see the light … Continue reading
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