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Daily Archives: June 9, 2024
Movie Review: M. Night’s daughter and Dakota Fanning conspire to bore us with “The Watchers”
It isn’t scary, with even the best-engineered “gotchas” landing flat. Kind of a big deal when you’re making a horror film. It’s joyless and humorless to boot, with slick production design that imagines a creature-inhabited “forest” on an island generally … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Zachary and Zooey and Jemaine and Lil Rel take up “Harold and the Purple Crayon”
This is what I get for not catching “Garfield” weeks ago. Missing out on an August 2 release trailer for this adaptation of a Crockett Johnson kiddie book. Could be cute. Or not.
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Netflixable? “Hit Man,” Glen Powell and Linklater try to find charm in pretending to be a killer-for-hire
I didn’t really warm up to “Hit Man,” a glib comedy about a freelance police surveillance technician pressed into service as a fake murderer-for-hire to entrap people conspiring to have someone killed. Its efforts to find “cute” and “charming” in … Continue reading
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Documentary Review: “The Grab” lays out the shadowy struggle for Global Food and Water
It’s usually only alluded to in TV news coverage of why China is so interested in “developing” Africa with roads and infrastructure and buying up swaths of America or Australia, what Saudi Arabia is up to purchasing land abroad or … Continue reading
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