Daily Archives: January 8, 2024

It’s “Beekeeper” night, you know the rules

We don’t shave for J. Stay movies, right mate? Unless it’s our scalp. We confine the chatter to a low Cockney growl. We take our tea with honey with because that’s the way Jason Statham LIKES IT and “it’s flammable,” … Continue reading

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Netflixable? New Lebanese parents battle over a suite, class, family and rules in “C-Section”

Director David Oryan and screenwriters Isaac Fahed and Doris Saba reached for sentimental, low-hanging fruit in their Lebanese childbirth dramedy “C-Section.” And every now and then, they got their hands on a sweet fig or a tart tangerine. But this … Continue reading

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Movie Review: A slo-mo Keno hustle, “Double Down South”

The latest film from the Oscar-winning writer of “Dead Poet’s Society” is a sordid, torpid tale of violence and revenge set against the pulse-pounding (cough cough) sport of keno-pool, that oddball boardgame variation of billiards. “Double Down South” is a … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Sci-fi that Wrestles with Many an Existential “Foe”

“Foe,” based on a novel by Iain Reid, is a dreamy and forlorn science fiction parable about the evolving nature of personality, the imperamence of relationships and the limits of science and technology. Set in a very near climate changed … Continue reading

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