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Monthly Archives: December 2024
Movie Preview: The offspring of killer Dermot Mulroney frets over “Like Father Like Son” warnings
Dylan Flashner stars in this Jan 31 release, the son of a murderer on death row (Mulroney). Ariel Winter, Vivica A. Fox and Mayim Bialik (as a therapist) also star.
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Movie Preview: Christoph Waltz is the “Old Guy” clinging to a career he’s aged out of — Hit Man
Yes, another hit-man/hired-killer/”trigger-man” action comedy, this one with the Oscar winning Waltz as an AARP assassin. “We’re going younger, across the board” is something no legitimate employer could get away with “announcing” in this day and age. Lucy Liu and … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Jolie as Callas, “Maria,” a Diva at Death’s Door
“Maria” is an operatic bio-pic in every sense of the word. In director Pablo Larraín’s vision of “La Callas,” the diva’s diva Maria Callas, there is tragedy off-stage but serenity in the spotlight, an artist wholly prepared and fully immersed … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: After Society’s Collapse, a better-late-than-never sequel — “28 Years Later”
Cillian Murphy returns to the role that made his name, Danny Boyle returns to the “universe” that made him big box office. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer and Ralph Fiennes do the heavy lifting. Are we far enough removed from “The … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: An anti-war parable that became a landmark of Japanese cinema — “Ugetsu” (1953)
“The value of people and objects truly depends on their setting,” the potter Genjurô tells a noblewoman and patron at one point in the classic film “Ugetsu,” a Medieval fantasy based on the “Rain-Moon Tales” of 18th century writer Ueda … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Jack Quaid feels no pain in “Novocaine”
A superhero action comedy guaranteed to make you wince. A little. “Novocaine” opens in March, when we find out if Jack Quaid is about to become “a thing.”
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Netflixable? Keira and Ben Whishaw try to survive London’s “Wick World” of “Black Doves”
The one hard and fast rule of streaming action series these days is that they have to be page-turners. The plot has to not just lure us in, but repeatedly add wrinkles to drag the viewer into that next episode. … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Hitchcock Close-ups and Cuts at their Most “Notorious”
A purloined key, handed-off and hidden, then “returned” with dire consequences, bottles of wine whose “vintage” sticker earns a lot of attention, a party’s champagne bucket, emptying steadily and suspensefully and the look of doom in a great actress’s ready-for-my-closeup … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: A second epic trailer for the Awards Bait Epic, “The Brutalist”
A vehicle worthy of Oscar winner Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce? Architecture and immigrants, America remade via one by the imagination of the other.
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Movie Review: Luca Guadagnino and Daniel Craig bring Burroughs’ “Queer” to the screen
There have been worthy big screen interpretations of the Beat Generation icon William S. Burroughs over the years. Kieffer Sutherland played him in “Beat.” Peter Weller took on Burroughs’ alter ego (and pen name) “Bill Lee” in David Cronenberg’s celebrated … Continue reading
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