Daily Archives: December 1, 2023

Movie Review: What the…Heck is Eddie Murphy doing on “Candy Cane Lane?”

If nothing else, streaming has provided a welcoming home to a lot of holiday films in recent years, with movies ranging from bad to Hall Mark Christmas romance mediocre typically skipping theaters altogether. Cramming these seasonal-shelf-life pictures in theaters makes … Continue reading

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Movie Review: The Banality of a Party Family and a Nazi “Company Man” in “The Zone of Interest”

Hannah Arrendt’s famous phrase “The Banality of Evil,” gets beaten to death by anyone trying to describe the ordinary folk who commit extraordinary crimes, be they fictional villains or political, military or historically genocidal figures who shock the world both … Continue reading

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Movie Review: John Woo’s dialogue-free Holiday Shoot-em-up — “Silent Night”

Action auteur John Woo returns to the sort of gangland tale that made him for “Silent Night,” a holiday shoot-em-up with a pun for its title. A month or so back, David Fincher made a hit-man thriller that was so … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Oh no, there goes Tokyo…Again — “Godzilla Minus One”

“Godzilla Minus One” is an ambitious reset of the famed Japanese movie monster, a reboot of the franchise and the character introduced in the 1950s as an allegory of Japanese victimhood in in the nuclear age. Writer-director and effects supervisor … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Anya Taylor-Joy in “Mad Max” Land – “Furiosa”

A first trailer that has exposition/back story, the cinema’s “It Girl” Anya Taylor-Joy, and a WHOLE lot of stuff we’ve seen in other Mad Max movies. I mean, a lot. Looks very good and all. But will it show us … Continue reading

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