Daily Archives: May 9, 2024

Movie Preview: June Squibb is elderly, armed and dangerous — “Thelma”

This comic thriller about a gullible little old lady who gets mixed up in things way beyond her experience of the world co-stars Richard Roundtree, Parker Posey, Clark Gregg and Fred Hechinger and opens June 21.

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Movie Review: Tarantino Town, “The Last Stop in Yuma County”

It is one of the hoariest conventions in screen thrillers. Round up a bunch of people, some of them armed and dangerous. Park them in a roadside diner, and see what happens. The classic “The Petrified Forest,” based on a … Continue reading

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Netflixable? Brooke Shields is “Mother of the Bride,” Benjamin Bratt is father of the groom in a Phuket Wedding

“Innocuous, predictable and well-cast” is about all the praise “Mother of the Bride” warrants, unless you consider another movie featuring the lovely scenery of Phuket, Thailand a deal-maker. Looking for laughs in this Brooke Shields comedy is like panning for … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”

The phrase “spectacularly pointless” hangs over the tenth “Planet of the Apes” movie, a stand-alone sequel to “War for the Planet of the Apes,” which came out seven years ago. Granted, I was thinking “umpteenth” in terms of the actual … Continue reading

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