Daily Archives: April 7, 2024

Classic Film Review: Reconsidering “Sorcerer” (1977)

The stumbling French Netflix remake of “The Wages of Fear,” a 1953 thriller by Henri-Georges Clouzot, whetted my appetite for re-watching that touchstone tale of desperate men taking on a suicidal job, each for his own grim reasons. But none … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Dan Stevens goes scary, driving a young woman “Cuckoo”

Hunter Schafer stars as a young woman who moves with Dad’s (Marton Csokas) to a resort in the Bavarian Alps, a place where people with Germanic accents (Dan Stevens, et al) use words like “experiments” a tad too often for … Continue reading

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Netflixable? Argentinian man escapes his messy life via “death” — “Rest in Peace”

“Rest in Peace” is a sturdy Argentian thriller with too many soap operatic touches and twists for its own good. It’s a tale of escaping a messy life through a horrific but all-too-convenient historical event, the bombing of a Jewish … Continue reading

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