Daily Archives: December 31, 2024

Classic Film Review: A Scottish Bay, a Burt and a Baby-Faced Peter Capaldi — “Local Hero” (1983)

Oh to make the pilgrimage to Pennan, flying in to Aberdeen, recreating the journey a “Local Hero” makes in perhaps the quaintest, cutest film of that golden age of excess, the ’80s. Scottish writer-director Bill Forsyth’s “Gregory’s Girl” announced to … Continue reading

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Netflixable? Polish “Justice” turns Old (Communist) School in this ’90s thriller

“Justice” is a solid if somewhat unsatisfying slow-burn thriller from Poland, a drama set shortly after the country shed Soviet era Russian dominatation. It’s about a heist that went wrong, the pitiless murders that took place when that happened and … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Lady wrasslin’ was illegal when she was “Queen of the Ring”

Emily Rickards, Josh Lucas and Walton Goggins star in this “true story” from the 1930s, a tale of an early champion in the then-illegal world of women’s wrestling. “Give the audience what they deserve!” March 7, we’ll see if they … Continue reading

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