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Daily Archives: September 19, 2024
Movie Review: An Alpine Oddity, Strange Swiss Multiverse “history” — “The Universal Theory”
Sheer curiosity might be enough to lure the adventurous into “The Universal Theory,” a mysterious German-Swiss film noir that dabbles in alternate history and a confluence of events that might have triggered timeline shifts among those who were in its … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Where’s there’s “Smoke” there’s no fire, just lots of “Uglies”
“Uglies” is another cut-and-paste dystopia-masquerading as-utopia-YA sci-fi thriller about youth imperiled and in revolt. It borrows from “Logan’s Run” and every book series/film series it inspired and a famous “Twilight Zone” episode — “Eye of the Beholder” — in creating … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Revenge or judgement face a grieving father in Franco’s Spain — “The Wait (La Espera)”
F. Javier Gutiérrez’s “The Wait” is a supernatural parable of powerless poverty and callous wealth, the ancient class divide that endured in Spain under the Franco dictatorship. It’s a grim, well-acted vengeance thriller with moral underpinnings that would have worked, … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Liam Neeson’s a hard, bad man in search of “Absolution”
Ron Perlman’s a heavy in this “The only way for me to do something right is by doing something bad” redemption thriller.
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