Daily Archives: March 21, 2024

Movie Preview: Are you ready for some “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice?”

Sept. 6. Keaton and Ryder and Jenna Ortega and Willem Dafoe and O’Hara.

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Movie Review: The world is out to get “Lousy Carter”

David Krumholtz is a once promising animator facing a terminal diagnosis and the world’s callous indifference in “Lousy Carter,” a droll “My midlife crisis is death” comedy set in academia. The sort of fellow who’d accept and adopt as his … Continue reading

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M. Emmet Walsh, the quintessential “Character Actor” — 1935 – 2024

To a generation of movie fans, M. Emmet Walsh was often the first name that came to mind when somebody used the label “character actor.” That wasn’t by accident. The Coens launched him to prominence as a pitiless Texas hitman … Continue reading

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John Cleese and the “Holy Grail” — coming to the Florida Film Festival

“Monty Python and the Holy Grail” is one of those gold standard comedies that keeps on giving, a farce so unerringly-costumed, production designed and covered in muck that it looks like a documentary, with slapstick and sight gags that twist … Continue reading

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