Daily Archives: January 28, 2024

Got your “Dune 2” tickets yet?

They’re going fast, says the studio still drowning in “Barbie” money. I’d hate for anybody to miss out. March 1.

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Netflixable? A thoroughly entertaining Vietnamese epic, “Song of the South”

“Song of the South” is a patriotic and picaresque Vietnamese parable set just as the French occupation (“Protectorate,” they called it.) was winding down in Southeast Asia. A newly-orphaned but timid and coddled ten year-old comes of age on a … Continue reading

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Classic Film Review: “The Fortune” (1975) with Nicholson and Beatty, Channing and Nichols — How Bad Can it be?

If you like to watch older films, sometimes you’ve got to bend the parameters of what “classic” means. Because if you’ve ever walked up on a Chevy Nova at a vintage car show, you know — some things are “Classics” … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: John Cena’s the Guy Zac Efrons hires to play his Imaginary Friend — “Ricky Stanicky”

Zac Efron, Jermaine Fowler and Andrew Santino play friends who need a ready-made lie/excuse to carouse without their spouses/in-laws knowing about it. So they invent an imaginary pal that they’re constantly having to attend to — poor Ricky Stanicky. Cena … Continue reading

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