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Monthly Archives: November 2024
Movie Review: Karen Gillan’s a lost soul ready to join the “Late Bloomers”
“Jumanji” and Marvel veteran Karen Gillan finally finds a star vehicle in sync with her brittle, awkwardly funny persona with “Late Bloomers,” a sentimental comedy about an aimless, guilt-stricken young woman who finally grows up when she takes on the … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Let’s Start a Cult”
“Let’s Start a Cult” is a rude and raunchy farce that’s amusingly in step with our times even as it strains for laughs in all the most vulgar places. It’s a star vehicle for co-writer and walking, eating, sweating and … Continue reading
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Tagged cults, indie-comedy, movie-review, religion
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Movie Review: Pakistan’s animated Best International Feature submission, “The Glassworker”
“The Glassworker” is a steampunk fantasy romance in the anime style. Its novelty is that it’s the first Pakistani animated film of this type, and is Pakistan’s submission to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences as a contender … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Jon Heder’s a builder out of his depth, Billy Zane is Marlon in “Waltzing with Brando”
Richard Dreyfuss, Tia Carrere and Rob Corddry are also in the cast of this Brando-impersonation comedy, with Zane channeling Mr. Method on the set, in chat shows and with a builder (Heder) he wants to fulfill his vision of a … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Buster Keaton in a “Minions” comedy by Terry Gilliam? “Hundreds of Beavers”
We tend to think of slapstick comedy gag writing as a lost art. It didn’t die along with Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, but its most acclaimed practioners these days are in animation, heirs to the Chuck Jones/Looney Tunes tradition. … Continue reading
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Tagged beavers, comedy, film, mike-cheslik, movie-review, movies, olivia-graves
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Movie Review: Martial Arts Magic, Mystery and Mayhem delivered by “The Tai Chi Master”
I’m not a big fan of fantasy action films, but I make an inception when the phrase “martial arts” is tossed in. One can never have too much flying wirework, too many mystical punches that could flatten mountains or heroes … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Teen tries to intervene in a slashing spree — “Time Cut”
There are a couple of extra twists in the time travel conundrun presented in “Time Cut,” a tale of teens terrorized by a mad slasher in small town Minnesota. 2003. Serious moral choices are faced, in addition to the “can’t … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay, “The End”
This one has me intrigued. A small cast of survivors, including Moses Ingram, sing through the Apocalypse. Dec. 6.
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Movie Preview: Ken Jeong moves the Fam to rural Wyoming — “A Great Divide”
San Fran sophisticates experience culture shock and xenophobia out in the Red State West. Dr. Ken does his thing. Could be cute and biting.
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Movie Review: Liev Schreiber broods beautifully in Hemingway’s “Across the River and Into the Trees”
“Across the River and Into the Trees” presents Liev Schreiber as the latest Ernest Hemingway literary alter ego to make it to the screen, and perhaps the best ever at capturing the world weariness of the late life, post-World War … Continue reading
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