Daily Archives: March 17, 2025

Movie Preview: Paul Walter Hauser is gaming a game show — “The Luckiest Man in America”

A 1984 scandal that not many remember is the subject of this thriller featuring Walton Goggins, Haley Bennett, David Strathairn, Shamier Anderson and Johnny Knoxville. Paul Walter Hauser is pretty damned good at suggesting “sketchy,” I must say. Even if … Continue reading

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It’s Saint Patrick’s Day — Watch “The Quiet Man,” listen to “diddley aye music,” and plot your Pilgrimage to Eire

That’s the drill every March 17, isn’t it? Listen to a spot of this. Watch an Irish film or two. “The Late Rite,” I’d suggest. Or Roddy Doyle’s “The Snapper,” “The Van” or “The Commitments,” maybe Gabriel Byrne’s “Into the … Continue reading

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Classic Film Review: Jimmy Stewart, Strother Martin and Kurt Russell, 1930s Ex-Cons on a “Fools’ Parade” (1971)

It’s easy to dismiss the picaresque action comedy “Fool’s Parade” as an “old man movie,” because that was kind of the idea back when it was made. James Stewart was 63 in 1971, when it came out, with a bunch … Continue reading

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Netflixable? Millie Bobby meets The Russo Brothers — “The Electric State”

If it takes the bottomless checkbook of Netflix to finally make the fangirls and fanboys recognize what merde merchants the filmmaking Russo brothers are, so be it. Famed for making the expensive trains run on time in effects heavy Marvel … Continue reading

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