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Daily Archives: January 4, 2024
Movie Review: We’re all just “Roadkill” to this Florida-bound serial killer
“Roadkill” is a leaden, lumbering C-movie about serial killings on the backroads of Florida back in the ’80s. For his second feature, writer, director and co-star Warren Fast (“Finding Grace”) reaches back for a “drive in” era motors-and-murders thriller about … Continue reading
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Series Preview: Peacock’s “In the Know” is Mike Judge meets “Between Two Ferns”
“Semi animated,” this irreverent “interview” show has a whiff of the old “Colbert Report” as well in its ideological dope asking idiotic questions. This time, the animated host (shades of “Space Ghost from Coast to Coast” and “Fetch”) is an … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul) pool is NO place for a “Night Swim”
It stands to reason that a movie about a haunted pool swallowing children and adults would absolutely have to have extraordinary underwater photography, just by design. “Night Swim” manages that, so a tip of the scuba mask to underwater director … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Polyamorous Spanish “Thruple” discovers the perils of “Stroking an Animal”
“Stroking an Animal” is a dull, pretentious Catalan “four seasons with a polyamorous threesome” melodama in which not a lot happens. Well, not a lot that involves people with their clothes on. Pointing itself at the “obvious” flaws in such … Continue reading
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Next screening? A lost and laughable chapter from the New Testament? “The Book of Clarence”
The director of “The Harder They Fall” Western is behind the camera for this riff on a contemporary of Jesus “inspired” to live a “divine” life, or fake it until he makes it. LaKeith Stanfield stars, with Benedict Cumberbatch, Alfre … Continue reading
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Netflixable? A Serial Killer Thriller from Taiwan follows the Book — “The Abandoned”
A serial killer is on the loose, murdering “foreign workers” in Taiwan. Let’s put our best detective on the case! You know, the one we meet just as she’s attempting to commit suicide in the same car where her partner/lover … Continue reading
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The Best Musical Joke in “Night Swim?”
Every now and then, some piece of music turns up in a (horror movie, usually) that makes me do a double take, or if I’m imbibing, a spit take. How did (whoever the music supervisor/the star/the director) they pull that … Continue reading
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