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Monthly Archives: December 2024
Movie Preview: Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio, “Karate Kid: Legends”
This has “made for streaming” all over it. Sorry, did I sound too enthusiastic, there? But Jackie’s still (somewhat) Jackie, and maybe Ben Wang is a better draw than Will Smith’s kid. Ralph Macchio? “Great to be here!” May 30.
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Movie Review: A French prison break that involves “Hunting with Tigers (Tigres et Hyenes)”
“Hunting with Tigers” is a heist picture with two heists — one involving cars and motorcycles, the other a boat. The second heist is a prison break from a heavily-guarded courthouse. The script checks-off the requisite boxes of the genre … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Blanchett and Fassbender, agents in action for Soderbergh’s “Black Bag”
This March 14 spy thriller was written by David Koepp, which might matter more than having an ex-James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) and former Miss Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) in the supporting cast. Koepp scripted the first Tom Cruise “Mission: Impossible,” the … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Chaplin’s ode to a Dying Corner of Comedy — “Limelight”
Memory is a merciful thing when it comes movies. We remember the grand moments in films, the signature bits, and much of what’s less moving, entertaining or important just drifts away. Charlie Chaplin had become Charles Chaplin long before “Limelight,” … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Guy Pearce helps Cosmo Jarvis survive and cope with an Aussie Prison — “Inside”
There’s a contemplative vibe to this standard-issue “got a contract on’em” view of the tedium and violence of life behind bars. Sins admitted, committed and maybe even atoned for. Pearce is having another “moment” thanks to this and “The Brutalist.” … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Cleopatra Coleman and Haley Joel Osment, “Not an Artist”
Rosalind Chao, RZA (Now going by Bobby Diggs?), Matt Walsh, Lauren Knutti and Mr. HR from “The Office” (Paul Lieberstein) are also in the cast of this indie comedy about an artists’ retreat/boot-camp where they are coached into overcoming…creative blocks?
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Movie Review: When the End Comes, Survivalists rally around “Homestead”
By turns paranoid and pollyanna-ish, “Homestead” is a conservative Christian survivalist wish fulfillment fantasy about living through “The End.” The studio that brought us the controversial “Sound of Freedom” serves up an almost bipolar picture packed with MAGA virtue signaling … Continue reading
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Tagged angel-studios, black-rifle-coffee, cnristo-fascism, film, gun-nuts, homestead, movie-review, right-wing-movie, sound-of-freedom
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Movie Preview: Iraq Combat at its most intense, in a film by a combat vet and the director of “Civil War” — “Warfare”
This 2025 “real time” thriller takes us into Iraqi combat “as remembered” by writer and co-star Ray Mendoza. Does it look more intense than the many Iraq War grunts-eye-view thrillers that preceded it, or even appreciable different from “American Sniper,” … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Megan Fox, robotic in her “Subservience”
Saying Megan Fox is well cast as a robotic household “helper” in “Subservience” seems kind of mean. And one really should avoid using the phrase “human sex doll” in describing her role here, or her screen career in general. “Subservience” … Continue reading
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Documentary Preview: Phil Collins, a pop star in winter, “Drummer First”
OK, not your normal platform — Drumeo, a drum-centric site selling lessons, etc. is offering this. Not sure why that is (probably not a feature length doc). But in the ’80s and ’90s, Collins was as omnipresent as any balding … Continue reading
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