Daily Archives: December 7, 2024

Movie Preview: Alan Cumming goes Canadian — “Drive Back Home”

Is this showing at a cinema near you? I’m hunting high and low for it. Looks adorable, the prodigal/gay son/brother endures the “Drive Back Home.”

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Movie Review: “Moana 2” is nobody’s idea of “an instant classic”

Here’s how I described Disney’s 2016 blockbuster “Moana” when it came out. “It is an instant classic, a near masterpiece and the best Disney animated film since its last Golden Age, which produced “The Little Mermaid” and “The Lion King.” … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Remembering an earlier coup attempt, an armed insurrection by “The Order”

It’s not the cars and the clothes that establish “The Order” as a period piece. It’s the notion of Federal law enforcement aggressively pursuing violent traitors out to overthrow democracy no matter how indifferent the entitled, selective-enforcement rural sheriffs and … Continue reading

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BOX OFFICE: “Moana 2” sails past “Moana 1,” “Wicked” clears $300 million, Kyle Mooney blows A24’s rep with “Y2K”

Disney’s “Moana 2” is on a pace to surpass the box office take of 2016’s more charming “Moana” by midnight Sunday. A 55-60% falloff from its opening extended weekend (just shy of $140 million over Thanksgiving) means a $52 million … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “Y2K,” back when the end was nigh

Why “Y2K?” Why now? Seriously, WTF, Gen Y and Kyle Mooney?  Films? LOLs? Not on your life, A24 Films. The ex-“SNL” player Mooney co-wrote, directed and co-stars in “Y2K,” a “horny teenager” comedy that aims to be a sort of … Continue reading

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