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Monthly Archives: February 2025
Movie Review: Martial Arts Heirs swordfight over the Academy, “100 Yards”
Arch, stylized and production designed to the nth degree, “100 Yards” is a sort of ramen noodles martial arts Western. With their harmonica and guitar backed score, sibling filmmakers Hoafeng Xu and Jenfung Xu lean into Leone — Sergio, that … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: John Ford looks for laughs amid crime solving on “Gideon’s Day” (“Gideon of Scotland Yard”)
The great Western director John Ford’s idea of filming a British police procedural was to make it a lot like his Westerns. He’d make the hero ironic — serious when need be, but comically bewildered at times. Domestic life would … Continue reading
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Movie Review — “Captain America: Brave New World,” no fun allowed
Any fans who go to comic book movies for escape from the real world and the comfort of familiar godlike characters achieving something resembling justice and just deserts for evil-doers is going to lament the experience that “Captain America: Brave … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Paddington in Peru,” with Colman and Banderas too
The old rule that film series for children tend to go one sequel too far pretty much applies to “Paddington in Peru,” the third Paddington Bear picture to celebrate all that’s twee about a bear learning to be British The … Continue reading
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Next screening? “Paddington?” In “Peru?”
These movies have been adorable entertainment for small kids. Let’s see if that “They always make one sequel too many” rule applies. “Almost,” is the verdict. My review here.
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Documentary Review: An Oscar nominated jazz memoir of Cold War Colonialism and Civil Rights — “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” in Congo
Johan Grimonprez’s “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” swirls by — a sea of famous and infamous faces, a parade of voices and a catalog of unpleasant history served up on a bed of bebop, cool jazz and free jazz. The … Continue reading
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Tagged africa, congo, documentary, history, johan-grimonprez, oscar-nominee
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Movie Review: Remembering the Events of “September 5” from the TV Control Room that Covered Them
“September 5” is a tense and fascinating deep dive into an infamous moment in world history and TV the way it used to be made, back in the olden days of analog, “coming to you live” and “film at 11.” … Continue reading
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Tagged abc-sports, israel-genocide, john-magaro, leonie-benesch, olympics, peter-sarsgaard, september-5, tim-fehlbaum
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Movie Review: Stephen King commits (Amusing-ish) Murder via a Wind-Up Toy — “The Monkey”
The blood and guts of “The Monkey” is played for laughs in Osgood Perkins’ film of Stephen King’s monstrous wind-up toy thriller. It’s a heavy-handed, staggering splatter comedy with random laughs mixed with random slaughter, all of it cast and … Continue reading
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Next screening? Let’s do “The Monkey,” kids!
Lot of horror titles loaded into the beginning of the year. Most have been busts, or under performers. But hope and deadly toy monkeys spring eternal, right? The film version of Stephen King’s story has Theo James, Elijah Wood and … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Viola Davis is a president who takes matters in her own hands when her family is threatened at a “G20” meeting
Clark Gregg, Anthony Anderson, Ramon Rodriguez and Antony Starr co-star in this “Air Force One” styled thriller. Amazon has this one set for April 10 (Streaming only? release. If only…
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