Monthly Archives: September 2024

Movie Preview: Teen “Treasure Trackers” aim for family action comedy fun

A “mythic treasure,” a Halloween curse? A high school trio take their shot in this Oct. 1 release. Cooper Tomlinson and Kim Sandwich and Charity Rose star on it. 

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Movie Preview: “Gladiator II” with have his “vengeance”

The new trailer — this one is the Brit version of Trailer 2 — plays up the odds, the new star and the vengeance. Nov. 15

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Netflixable? “The Perfect Couple” show the perfectly rich as perfectly trashy

It’s a murder mystery set among the filthy-rich/cash poor on Cape Cod, a tale of parties and endless infidelities in which almost everybody has some posh name or nickname — “Tag, Merritt, Greer,” “Shooter” — and almost everybody seems like … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Reese and Will have the dueling weddings blues — “You’re Cordially Invited”

A filmed-in-Georgia comedy about two parents steamrolling a rural inn/venue on behalf of their respective ready-to-marry children, this one has Geraldine Viswanathan, Meredith Hagner, Jack McBrayer, Wyatt Russell, Bobby Moynihan and Celia Weston. Jan. 30, hear come the brides! Love … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Nick Frost goes OFF on the Home Renovation from Hell — “Krazy House”

A suburban sitcom — Alicia Silverstone co-stars — turns into a comic nightmare of slaughter, splatter and revenge. Guaranteed to offend someone — EVERYone? Finishing its festival run, “coming soon” to theatrical and streaming?

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Netflixable? End of life issues lay bare the rift between “His Three Daughters”

“His Three Daughters” is an awards-bait drama about three quarreling adult children gathered for a death watch for their father. A drama-savvy reader will recognize that as the plot to Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters,” even if the writer-director doesn’t credit … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: A Kiwi “Bookworm” is more than Absent Dad Elijah Wood bargained for

Nell Fisher’s a precocious kid who’s grown up without a Dad. Then, her children’s magician for celebrity parties dad from America shows up. And they set out on an adventure. Looks sweet, cute and juvenile, all one could want in … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Daisy Ridley is a new-mother wronged — “Magpie”

Is he cheating? What will she do about it? Why’s her baby crying all the time? Oct. 25, we find out.

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Classic Film Review: An early Kurosawa/Mifune/Shimura VD lecture and morality play, “The Quiet Duel” (1949)

Before making his global reputation with epic period pieces from Japan’s samurai past, Akira Kurosawa made movies for domestic consumption in a Japan recovering from the trauma and ruin of fascism and the world war that their militaristic state started. … Continue reading

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BOX OFFICE: Animated “Transformers One” bests “Beetlejuice,” “Speak No Evil” holds off “Never Let Go,” “Substance” can’t crack Top Five

Taking the “Transformers” franchise back to the kiddie cartoon it always was turns out to be the safest bet Paramount could make with its creaking, clunky sci-fi/toys franchise. No more Michael Bay, just family audiences turning up to the tune … Continue reading

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