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Monthly Archives: March 2025
Movie Preview: Shia LaBeouf is a Bad Irish influence on a lad who might be “Salvable”
Toby Kebbel, Aiysha Hart, Barry Ward and James Cosmo also star in this drama of backstreet brawling and burgling. British made, Irish-accented? We’re intrigued. May 2.
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Movie Preview: Patricia Clarkson goes to war with Goodyear — “Lilly”
A Supreme Court case from back when it was a legitimate branch of government is the basis for this “true story” of the lesser wages, sexual harrassment and general abuse Lilly Ledbetter faced at The Biggest Tire Company. The always-formidable … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: It’s the perfect time for a fresh documentary look at Leni “Riefenstahl”
Every time a Republican president stages an SUV convoy at a NASCAR race, every “strong leader” poster or video visual served up to paper-over what weaklings this or that “Dear Leader” actually are, every Z that Russians spray paint on … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Kidman tries to make “Holland,” Michigan “To Die For”
When she read the script for “Holland,” Nicole Kidman must have seen a little of “To Die For,” the dark comedy that was her big break, the movie that set her up for Hollywood fame, Oscars and all that went … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon-prime, gael-garcia-bernal, holland, mimi-cave, movies, nicole-kidman
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Movie Preview: A post-apocalyptic thriller that’s Born to Be Brutal — “Steppenwolf”
This nihilistic stomp through Mad Max Kazakhstan has a “Here’s your future, should you refuse to evolve” vibe. No, this “Steppenwolf” has nothing to do with the band, the comic book character or the Herman Hesse novel that inspired them … Continue reading
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Richard Chamberlain: 1934-2025, Mr. Miniseries of “Thornbirds” and “Shogun” dies the day before his 91st Birthday
Richard Chamberlain, whose death was confirmed today, came to fame as a “teen idol,” the “McDreamy” of his day playing a young physician on the TV version of “Dr. Kildare.” He had a few shots at big screen stardom — … Continue reading
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Tagged drama, movies, review, Reviews, richard-chamberlain, shogun, thornbirds, tv
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Classic Film Review: Luis Buñuel serves up Colonialism’s “Death in the Garden” (1956)
Of all the “star entrances” the classic cinema has given us, from the “Stagecoach” rolling up on stranded John Wayne to Orson Welles, glimpsed in the shadows in “The Third Man” and Marlene Dietrich, dolled up and ready to sing … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Sofia Carson indulges her dead mother’s insistence on finishing “The Life List”
The one real surprise in the Netflix romance “The Life List” is a somewhat logical twist in the finale, one that finishes this Sofia Carson star vehicle with a solid-enough tug at the heartstrings. It doesn’t wipe away the watchable … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A Transgender Journey through the storm-traumatized Philippines — “Asog”
On the many islands and languages present in the Philippines, there are a couple of widely accepted words for transgender and transexual — bakla and asog or “tomboy. That suggests that there’s less mussing about with pronouns and somewhat less … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Hiddleston stars in “The Life of Chuck” for Stephen King and Mike Flanagan
Mia Sara, Chewitel Ejiofor, Karren Gillan and Mark Hamill also star in this “Truman Show” vibe “genre bender” from the director of “Doctor Sleep” and the guy who wrote the book “Doctor Sleep” was based on. An “ordinary guy” named … Continue reading
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