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Monthly Archives: March 2025
Movie Review: Can “The Ugly Stepsister” make that Glass Slipper fit?
Yes, let’s have a “Cinderella” without the spin. Pound home the “princess” as beauty bias messaging with body horror driven by body dysphoria. And make it splatter film bloody, sexually explicit and occasionally funny — laughs with a grimace of … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Remembering when Zambia and Zimbabwe were Racist Rhodesia — “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight”
Screen veteran Embeth Davidtz (just seen in “Retribution,” in “Old” and a regular on “Ray Donovan”) moves behind the camera for this adaptation of an Alexandra Fuller novel. The South African Davidtz would seem to be an apt choice in … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Nostalgic for the “Weeds” days of illegal marijuana — “Grassland”
A mother and daughter grow their own to make ends meet, then a cop moves in downstairs. It’s 2008, and paranoia was totally justified in “Grassland.” They’re playing up the fact that Oscar winner Common produced this. Rachel Ticotin, Mia … Continue reading
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Documentary Review: Zookeepers get in touch with their feelings caring for a famous Korean panda — “My Dearest Bao”
The departure of a beloved giant panda, sent home from Koreo to China to propogate this endangered species, becomes a most touching farewell as we mourn her leaving with the two zookeepers who cared for her in “My Dearest Fu … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Veterans battle Veterans in the “Aftermath” of a Terror Attack…Committed by Disgruntled Veterans
A lone combat vet squares off against bloody-minded veterans-turned-contractors on a bridge in Boston in “Aftermath,” a sometimes satisfying action pic undone by lapses in logic, talk-you-to-death villains and murky, uneasy politics. Dylan Sprouse, who got his big breaks as … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: “This is Spinal Tap II” “The end continues?”
Sept. 25, crank it up to eleven. Again.
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Movie Preview: Michelle Williams is “Dying for Sex” — Can Jenny Slate help her with her “bucket list?”
Dying and “immuno compromised,” Molly (five time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams) is a woman on a “sex quest.” It’ll take a special sassy bestie to help that pay off. Oscar winner Sissy Spacek, Jay Duplass and Rob Delaney are also … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Horror set in the realm of the “Kryptic”
A Canadian-set thriller with a forest disappearance, a genus of weird woodland…entities possibly responisible, a curious young woman (Chloe Pirrie) in search of answers that could get her in over her head. “Beast or spirit? Don’t think anyone quite knows … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Bill Skarsgård gets “Locked” in that one car he should never have tried to steal
You’ve seen guys like this in many a city throughout the world. They stroll down a less busy street, eyes darting back and forth under their hoodies, tried to look casual as they take hold of every car door handle … Continue reading
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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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