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Daily Archives: March 18, 2025
The only film critic in America converting a small barn to a henhouse?
I won’t refer to my not-a-professional carpenter, not remotely Amish efforts as “cinematic.” But let’s just say that putting down the rasp, the hammer, assorted screwdrivers, the jigsaw and the ancient power drill, I’ve never felt more “Keatonesque.
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Movie Preview: Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal in Celine Song’s rom (com?), “Materialists”
Matchmaker Dakota J’s a “Sex and the City” style good-looking-rich-guys-“unicorn” hunter with her head turned by wealthy Pedro P and her heart touched by hunky waiter Chris E. Madonna’s “Material Girl” era lives on. Marin Ireland and Sawyer Spielberg are … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: A Dash of Nostalgia and Sentiment, and a Make-Work project for all the Sandlers Poppa Bear Adam wants to put in the movies — “Happy Gilmore 2”
We see Stiller and (ugh) Nick Swardson, Margaret Qualley and Sandler spawn and Sandler hangers’on and a lot of pro golfers in this trailer to a sequel to one of Adam Sandler’s most popular comedies ever. Good thing they brought … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Surviving “Last Tango,” “Being Maria”
The scene, like the movie it dominates, was infamous before anybody outside of the production had seen it. The movie was stilted, strange, shocking and controversial, even in the hypersexualized “art cinema” of the ’70s. And the title, “Last Tango … Continue reading
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