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Monthly Archives: January 2025
“Brutalist” weekend, in IMAX
Late getting to this. A lot’s been going on–holidays, aged family to take care of, a dying pet, life, democracy’s end, other movies to get to. Right. Durham for the day it is. “Brutal” running time. Brutal prices, but that’s AMC … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Almodóvar Ponders Death and the Lives Preceding it from “The Room Next Door”
In his mid ’70s, it’s only natural that the great Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar should turn his attentions to reflecting on lives lived, and questions of how one wants life to end with his latest film. But in boiling down … Continue reading
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Tagged almodovar, john-turturro, julianne-moore, movie-review, Reviews, tilda-swinton, woodstock
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Movie Review: Keke and SZA live through “One of Them Days” that’s not quite “Friday”
With Moms Mabley, Tiffany Haddish and Mo’Nique as my witnesses, I swear Hollywood could’ve gotten a funnier movie out of Keke Palmer by just setting up a camera in front of her whilst she texts, tweets and blurts whatever comes … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Different century, new setting, same old “Wolf Man”
Universal futzed around with rebooting its classic werewolf horror franchise “Wolf Man” for years, and delayed releasing the latest finished film as well. Perhaps they were hoping more time would pass and we’d all forget the many other incarnations of … Continue reading
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David Lynch: 1946-2025, RIP
“Eraserhead,” “The Elephant Man,” “Blue Velvet,””Wild at Heart,” “Twin Peaks,” “Mulholland Drive,” “Lost Highway,” “The Straight Story,” an unforgettable attempt at “Dune” — nobody did weird like David Lynch. The Maverick ‘s Maverick iconoclastic filmmaker died today. He was 78. … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Brit Noir, Warner Bros. style — “They Made Me a Fugitive (I Became a Criminal)” (1948)
Here’s a flashy, violent British film noir in the classic Warner Bros. fashion, an on-the-lam thriller set in the postwar U.K. underworld where a war hero pays the price for going wrong. “They Made Me A Fugitive,” the film that … Continue reading
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Tagged british-cinema, film-noir, movie-review, movies, Reviews, trevor-howard, tubi, warner-bros
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Movie Review: Zombie Apocalypse is the least of This Cali Hamlet’s problems — “Hemet, or the Landlady Don’t Drink Tea”
The line between a “Z-movie,” a “zero stars” on the one-to-four-star scale, and a very bad one-star C or B movie usually comes down to intent. Did they set out to make a film this awful? Was their motivation or … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Ex-cop Scrambles Up and Down and all around Paris “Ad Vitam”
The Latin title “Ad Vitam” doesn’t translate to “over the top,” which might be the biggest letdown in this brisk — once it gets going — French action picture. A star vehicle conceived by Gullaume Canet, (“All Time High”), a … Continue reading
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Tagged canet, featured, film, france, movie-review, netflix, paris-movie, parkour, rappelling
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Movie Preview: DeNiro sits down with DeNiro, two mobsters, “The Alto Knights”
Bobby D. as Vito Genovese? And Frank Costello? In the same film? Bada BING. Debra Messing, Michael Rispoli and Cosmo Jarvis are in this Barry Levinson film, scripted by the veteran NYC crime reporter turned screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, who scripted … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: What terror awaits from “The Woman in the Yard?”
The milieu is what’s most novel about this March 28 Blumhouse horror release. Rural, Southern, African American terror remembered in a child’s cryptic rhyme. The trailer is cut in ways sure to raise a hair or two on the back … Continue reading
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