Daily Archives: February 18, 2024

Movie Preview: Dinklage is an “American Dreamer,” playing Rent-to-Own Roulette with Shirley MacLaine

Matt Dillon channels his inner real-estate agent hustler, with Danny Glover and Kim Quinn also in the cast. This one opens March 8 and looks to be fun.

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Netflixable? Swedish Mining Town Tumbles into “The Abyss”

There are a mountain of tropes you expect your typical disaster movie to deliver. It’s what makes them comfort food films. We know there will be warnings unheeded. All will be tested, and some will wuss out. A relative will … Continue reading

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Movie Review: A Morbid Menage a Trois — “Friends Till Death (Amigos Hasta la Muerte)”

Every so often in the Spanish-Mexican co-production “Friends Till Death” (Amigos Hasta la Muerte) there’s a new situation, plot twist or character reaction so idiotic and tone-deaf that one is forced to recall how stupid the premise of the picture … Continue reading

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Classic Film Review: Lost in the desert, and the cinema netherworld of 1974 — “The Little Prince”

It’s hard, even for people who lived through it, to remember how weird the American cinema was in the years between “Easy Rider” and “Jaws.” Old Hollywood, comprising the studios that were being swallowed into conglomerates as the last of … Continue reading

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