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Daily Archives: November 18, 2024
Movie Preview: The Perfect title for a Horror Film? “The Man in the White Van”
Dec. 13, we figure out if this title tells us everything that we need to know about this one.
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Netflixable? “Hot Frosty” serves up a Snowman Who’s “Cut”
When it comes to holiday films, American tastes long ago moved into HallmarkLand. Christmas princes, princesses, holiday get-aways that turn into second chance romances, holiday movies these days are all about Dolly Parton, Nicolas Sparks and sentiments — and plots … Continue reading
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Tagged christmas, frosty-the-snowman, holiday-movies, lacey-chabert, netflix
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Movie Review: Sex Worker “Anora” marries her “Whale”
Full disclosure, I ducked into “Anora” a couple of times, waiting for other movies to start, before finally setting aside the time to watch Sean Baker’s latest, start to finish. The tale of an American sex worker of Eastern European … Continue reading
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Tagged anora, film, mikey-madison, Reviews, sean-baker
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Movie Review: Mismatched Cousins Find their Pilgrimage to the Motherland “A Real Pain”
It’s true that the funniest bits in Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain” turn up in the movie’s trailers. A lot of over-reactions and under-reactions, infectiously exhuberant changes of mood that can be exhaustingly manic, a big personality overhwelming a reserved … Continue reading
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Tagged film-review, holocaust, jesse-eisenberg, kieran-culkin
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Movie Review: Cillian Murphy’s an Irishman Haunted by the Cruelty of the Magdalene Laundries — “Small Things Like These”
There have been more emotional films about the great shame of modern Ireland, the state’s complicity with the Catholic church’s infamous “Magdalene Laundries, which imprisoned pregnant young women in convents, forced them to work for convent for-profit laundry services and … Continue reading
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Tagged cillian-murphy, claire-keegan, film-review, irish-cinema, magdalene-laundies, movies, tim-mielants
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Movie Review: Eastwood’s made a creaky court case built around “Juror #2”
Maybe the answer to “Why did Warner Brothers barely release Clint Eastwood’s ‘final film?” was that it’s just not very good. “Juror # 2” is competently cast, acted, shot and put together. But the script is melodramatic to the point … Continue reading
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Tagged clint-eastwood, film, juror-2, movies, nicholas-hoult
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