Monthly Archives: March 2025

Movie Review: Satire that Doesn’t Satisfy — “Death of a Unicorn”

Could it be that “Death of a Unicorn” isn’t as clever as the folks who made seemed to believe? Oh it certainly could. What was sold in the trailers as a dark, droll and possibly gory farce raised expectations. And … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: DiCaprio, Penn, Benicio and Teyana in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another”

“The Revolution” doesn’t begin here. It’s ongoing. Well, it stopped for a while. And now we’ve got to “get the band back together” to save one of their own. Oscar winners DiCaprio, Penn and del Toro are joined by Regina … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Jason Statham takes care of business in Ayer’s “A Working Man”

The Brotherhood, the elders of the Russian mafia in America, solemnly gather for a war council in Chicago. “We are facing a devil,” the mobster called Symon (Andrej Kaminsky) intones. And those gathered round him pause to hastily themselves — … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Russian Journalist tries to tell the truth about Putinism — ” Words of War”

Lot of Brits in this May 2 wide release. Truth in a time of conflict and fascist propaganda comes at a cost.

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Movie Review: Tony Jaa & Co. bring on the brawls in “Striking Rescue”

Muay Thai master Tony Jaa is back in action in “Striking Rescue,” a clumsily titled, ineptly subtitled and generically plotted Chinese thriller where the fights are to die for, the characters and plot not so much. Twenty-plus years since his … Continue reading

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Classic Film Review: Serious and Seldom Seen Sellers — “The Blockhouse” (1973)

Filmed on the whim of a liquor empire heir, a “true story” whose German Army WWII victims were changed to French and citizens of other occupied countries, “The Blockhouse” is one of the strangest titles in the later, quixotic career … Continue reading

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Movie Review: All Cuisine’d up, “Waiting for Dalí “

The quality of twee is often strained, the Bard wryly noted. A tragedy, a comedy or even a romantic comedy is within the reach of some writers and screenwriters. But hitting that feather-weight sweet spot between droll and cute is … Continue reading

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Netflixable? Crime and Christian Supernaturalism collide in Korea — “Revelations”

“Revelations,” the new thriller from the director of “Train to Busan” and “Peninsula,” has no zombies. But this collision of crime and punishment, Christianity and psychology is as suspenseful and satisfying as any thriller to come our way this year. … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Hildebrand and Abel, Cusack and Sorvino peek through the “Fog of War”

Brianna Hildebrand was one of the pretty young players on the periphery of the “Deadpool” franchise, and was featured in Netflix’s “Lucifer.” Jake Abel was in “Supernatural” and played Mike Love in the Brian Wilson biopic “Love & Mercy.” He … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “Ed Kemper: The True Story of an American Psycho”

“Ed Kemper” is a serial killer portrait that’s as pitiless as it is artless. This feature film, no doubt inspired by Netflix’s “Mindhunter” series bringing attention to the “other” notorious mass murderer named “Ed” (“The Butcher of Plainfield” Ed Gein … Continue reading

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