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Monthly Archives: March 2025
Movie Preview: Well, isn’t this ADORABLE — Jamie Lee and Lindsay L have a “Freakier Friday”
August 8, a blast from your past set to the music of Chappell Roan. Bravo to Oscar winner Curtis for keeping her sense of humor and taking on this. Let’s see if Lohan lives up to her big screen comeback, … Continue reading
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Series Review: Brian Tyree Henry’s a “Dope Thief” who robs from the wrong Drug Lord
Everybody’s new favorite character actor Brian Tyree Henry earns a rough and raw but often tongue-in-cheek star vehicle with “Dope Thief,” an Apple TV series about dope thieves who steal from the wrong crime boss. It’s violent, with the threat … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: The “official” “F1” trailer gives Javier Bardem the first and last word, lets Brad Pitt lose his shirt
June 27. Feel the hype? I’m gettin’ there.
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Movie Review: A Pop Music Fable trapped in YA Sci-Fi Land –“O’Dessa”
Generations raised on stories about this or that world/future/universe saved by “The Chosen One” deserve a musical about this post-religion/post Potter fantasy in the flesh. So here’s “O’Dessa,” a close-to-the-present-day dystopian fable about a “Seventh Son” who happens to be … Continue reading
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Tagged kelvin-harrison-jr, movies, sadie-sink, stranger-things, ya-musical, ya-sci-fi
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Movie Review: Numbing even without the violence –“Novocaine”
It begins with sentiment, introducing a character worthy of our sympathy, if not our pity. There’s an emotional tug to the scenes in which the guy with the genetic malady connects with that cute co-worker who seems to “get” him. … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A Treasure Trove of Secrets are concealed via a “Black Bag”
You don’t see men in turtlenecks anymore. They mostly turn up in spy thrillers, these days — gloomy, conspiratorial pictures with a fall, wintry or too-early spring setting, scripted to match the Cold War that passed and the chilly one … Continue reading
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Something appears “off”about this showing of “Novocaine”
It’s slow enough without a ten minute delay due to projector download issues. Two credited directors? Which one was responsible for the pacing? The bits between the torture, no-pain but blood and burns and broken bones and bullet wound fights … Continue reading
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Filmgoing in S. Fla is about to Get More Fascist
“And the Oscar (for Best Documentary Feature) goes to, ‘No Other Land,’” a Palestinian/Israeli project with Palestinian and Norwegian producers. It’s another documentary doing what American media in particular have avoided, reporting on Israel’s brutal land-grabbing practices by focusing on … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: A Nasty Norwegian Goof on The Brothers Grimm — “The Ugly Stepsister”
IFC/Shudder has this one, whose trailer is worth a grim grin or two, slated for April 18 release.
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Movie Review: Prospective Parents Olsen and Patel quake at “The Assessment” by Alicia Vikander
“The Assessment” is smart and sinister sci-fi of “The Handmaids Tale” school, a striking, minimalist parable about humanity’s failings in facing an inhumane future. A geographically and architecturally stark setting hosts a grim lecture on family, population and the psychology … Continue reading
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