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Monthly Archives: November 2024
Movie Preview: “My Dead Friend Zoe” is among the vets in group therapy with Morgan Freeman
Natalie Morales has the title role, with Sonequa Martin-Green as the former comrade-in-arms who sees dead people. Morgan Freeman and Ed Harris bring the gravitas. A “cute” combat trauma tale? Feb 28, we find out if that works.
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Movie Review: Kirkland Fan and would-be filmmaker makes the trek to “Sallywood”
A film buff meets his Hollywood idol and wins his dream job working for her in “Sallywood,” a lighthearted indie lampoon of show business, showbiz “types” and the indignities of “I used to be famous.” Sally Kirkland got her start … Continue reading
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Tagged film, hollywood-assistant, indie-comedy, movie-review, movies, sally-kirkland, sallywood
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Movie Review: “Spartacus” III, “Gladiator II”
Epic-scale filmmaker Ridley Scott turns 87 on November 30. It’s safe to assume that, like Clint Eastwood, Scorsese, Almodovar or Bigelow, any film he makes could be his last. But Scott’s still carrying on as if he has no laurels … Continue reading
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Tagged denzel-washington, gladiator, paul-mescal, pedro-pascal, ridley-scott
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Movie Review: “Wicked” girlfriend, you’ve put on an awful lot of weight
“Wicked” moves from the Broadway stage to the cinema, an epic that transitions from “musical” to “intellectual property” in a bloated, lumbering, gear-grinding crash. Whatever Disney or most any other producing studio might have done to this beloved prequel to … Continue reading
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Tagged ariana-grande, cynthia-erivo, film-review, jeff-goldblum, movie-review, wicked
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Movie Preview: To be Young and Distractingly hot on the Sunny Coast of Italy in the summer — “Partenope”
She is a siren, literal or figurative. And the men? They must swoon, because nature or the supernatural has ordained it so. Celeste Dalla Porta has the title role. Gary Oldman’s the geezer who has to pretend he’s not interested … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A Black Boy’s Odyssey through the London “Blitz”
A single photo in Britain’s Imperial War Museum — a mixed-race child snapped as he joined the sea of children being evacuated from a British city early in World War II — inspired the brilliant writer-director Steve McQueen’s “Blitz,” a … Continue reading
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Tagged apple-tv, blitz, film-review, movies, saoirse-ronan, steve-mcqueen, wwii
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Netflixable? A Transgender Telenovela with Tunes — “Emilia Pérez”
“Emilia Pérez” is bold and daring musical treatment of subjects most often covered in telenovelas — Mexican soap operas — and in crime series such as “Queen of the South.” It’s about a Mexican cartel boss who decides to change … Continue reading
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Tagged jacques-audiard, movies, musical, selena-gomez, zoe-saldana
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Movie Preview: Another live action remake nobody asked for…save for the accountants — “How to Train your Dragon”
And you thought “Red One” was ill advised.
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Movie Review: Britain’s “Best International Feature” Oscar hope is an Indian Police Procedural — “Santosh”
American TV has pretty much beaten to death the police procedural drama thanks to overexposure to the infallible, unimpeachable justice system fantasies of Dick Wolf, the self-righteous heroes of “Blue Bloods” and and the scientist sleuths of “C.S.I.” That’s why … Continue reading
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Tagged crime, film-review, india, indian-thriller, oscar-submission
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Movie Review: Oscar contender “Under the Volcano” lets Ukrainians vacation until Russia Invades
The Biden administration had been warning for months that Russia was preparing to invade Ukraine. But when it finally happened, Ukrainians, right up to the country’s president, were shocked. Even some of those accepting that it might happen carried on … Continue reading
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Tagged europe, invasion-of-ukraine, oscar-contender, polish-film, travel-tips, vacation
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