Daily Archives: February 20, 2025

Movie Preview: Pedro Pascal in an Action Comedy Anthology — “Freaky Tales”

Ben Mendelson, Normani and Jay Ellis also star in this collection of dark and darkly-funny crime stories set in ’87 Oakland. Tom Hanks plays a video store owner in this April 4 Lionsgate release.

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Movie (Documentary?) Preview: “Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie”

This looks sweet, a couple of old stoners mending fences and having the last laugh. It smokes out April 25 (April 30 “previews”), and is basically self-distributed. So maybe it’ll be in a theater near you. Man.

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Movie Review: A Master Mocks Yakuza Hit-Man Movies — “Broken Rage”

Leave it to Beat Takeshi to ridicule the cinematic elephantiasis that has even the Great Scorsese pushing the limits of how long a night out at the movies should last. And that Brady Corbet “Brutalist” guy? Three and a half … Continue reading

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Classic Film Review: Hemmings and Redgrave, The Yardbirds and 1960s London — Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” (1966)

A young photographer is shaken to his core when he finally sees the beyond the Mod London surface gloss he so ably captures in “Blow-Up,” a vivid snapshot of a moment in time and a patient, chilling thriller about a … Continue reading

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