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Monthly Archives: November 2024
Movie Preview: Steve Coogan learns from his tuxedo’d pal — “The Penguin Lessons”
A true story, an Englishman transplanted in clip crazed 1970s Argentina and a little Jonathan Pryce on the side? This played at the Toronto Film Fest this fall, and Lionsgate cannot wait to release it.
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Movie Preview: Rami Malek is “The Amateur” Out to Kill His Wife’s Murderers
Laurence Fishburne, Julianne Nicholson, Rachel Brosnahan and Jon Bernthal are among the supporting players in this “cryptoanalyst turned assassin/agent” thriller. April 11.
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Documentary Review: “Billy Preston — That’s the Way God Planned It”
Whenever Ringo Starr is asked about the pianist/organist, singer and “fifth Beatle” Billy Preston, “He never put his hands in the wrong place” is his highest compliment. One music producer who worked with the two-time Grammy winner marveled at Preston’s … Continue reading
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Tagged billy-preston, clapton, concert-for-bangladesh, george-harrison, little-richard, music, the-beatles
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Movie Review: A Father sees his Estranged Daughters “In the Summers”
“In the Summers” is a wistful elegy to the passing of childhood and the recognition and acceptance of the flaws of those who made us. Alexssandra Lacorazza’s downbeat debut feature follows two California sisters through the ups and downs of … Continue reading
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Tagged dad, film-review, indie-film, new-mexico, residente-rapper
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Netflixable? Troubled Couple’s Children have “Vanished into the Night”
The stakes could not be higher in the thriller “Vanished into the Night.” A father, in debt and going through a divorce, loses his children to kidnappers and must reconnect with a hoodlum from his wayward youth to raise the … Continue reading
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Tagged italian, mafia, movie-review, netflix, southern-italy, thriller
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Movie Preview: Kyle Mooney imagines what MIGHT have happened on “Y2K”
“Saturday Night Live” alumnus Mooney and music video director Evan Winter (credited as co-writer here) dreamed up an alt reality where instead of Bill Clinton & Co. planning for and preventing a cyber meltdown of computers on Jan 1, 2000, … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: A Little Romance, a Touch of Class, and Class Warfare — “The Philadelphia Story” (1940)
It begins with a screwball tease — a couple, wordlessly breaking up, climaxing with the husband maniacally grabbing the wife by the forehead and shoving her back through the door and onto the floor. But even though the wife is … Continue reading
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Tagged cary-grant, comedy, cukor, film, jimmy-stewart, katharine-hepburn, movies
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Movie Review: Beckinsale’s a CIA agent blackmailed into killing her way to “Canary Black”
The main draw of a genre film is the promise of cinematic comfort food. A faintly Byzantine plot, some solid action beats delivered by genre veterans in front of and behind the camera and a few pithy turns of phrase … Continue reading
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Tagged action, amazon-movies, croatia, film, horror, kate-beckinsale, movies, ray-stevenson, slovenia
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Movie Preview: Cruise, “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning”
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Movie Review: Swedes endure the “Stockholm Bloodbath,” and a dark comedy about it
It’s revealing that “Stockholm Bloodbath,” the latest film retelling of a grim moment in history that led to Sweden’s independence, premiered in Denmark. The film’s about Swedish suffering, persistence and pluck, and the Danes are the ones who perpetrated the … Continue reading
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