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Monthly Archives: March 2025
Movie Preview: Gambling, Same Sex Attraction “On Swift Horses”
Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter and Daisy Edgar-Jones head the cast of this adaptation of the Shannon Pufahl novel. Edgar-Jones and Poulter play a married couple upended by the risky business his brother brings to their lives and relationships. April 25, … Continue reading
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Series Preview: Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn and grand theft of the rich and entitled — “Your Friends Neighbor’s”
Hamm’s a high roller who hits the wall and resorts to stealing from his well heeled “Friends & Neighbors.” Possibilities? April 11, this series hits Apple TV+.
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Movie Preview: “Lilies Not For Me,” a dark, period piece same sex romance
The bad old days for being gay included institutionalization, treatments and the search for a “cure.” This period piece comes from the producers of “Call Me By Your Name,” with Finn O’Shea and Robert Aramayo as the young lovers, and … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Master Documentarian Errol Morris takes on Manson’s Motives and MO — “Chaos: The Manson Murders”
Over fifty years after the Charles Manson/Tate-LaBianca murders, the “Helter Skelter” slaughter continues to entice and challenge the American psyche. With all the books, all the films and TV miniseries about it, with even Quentin Tarantino weighing in with a … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A boy’s “Camera” captures an Elegy to Age and a Dying Fishing Town
“Camera” is an indie ode to taking photographs on celluloid wrapped around a poignant coming of age story set in a fishing town that’s going down — emptying out and dying of old age. It’s right in the wheelhouse of … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Bertolucci, Brando (Matt Dillon) and “Being Maria” Schneider make “Last Tango in Paris”
A notorious ’70s film got a lot more notorious in recent years as its co-star — the then young and new to film Maria Schneider, spoke of the ugliness and on camera abuse that went into making it. Anamaria Vartolomei … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Kurdish Immigrant in Norway gets a Visit from “My Uncle Jens”
Akam is a young teacher who instructs kids from many cultures in the finer points of reading and writing in Norwegian, but who rarely gives a thought to his own Kurdish heritage. Until that night his the doorbell of his … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Chinese Mob Lawyer insists “I Did It My Way”
“I Did It My Way” is a Hong Kong cops-vs-Dark Web/Drug Trade thriller that unfolds like a tragic opera, one set to the strains of Frank Sinatra’s third biggest hit. The action, emotions and sentimental turns in the plot are … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: The Revolution against the Plutocrats will be…a Sadie Sink musical? “O’Dessa”
Sink has the title role, a poor girl trapped in a dystopia run by Plutonovich (Murray Bartlett) with only her songs to fight the fascism. Regina Hall, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Mark Boone, Jr. also star in this one, which … Continue reading
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Series Preview: A David Oyelowo period piece comedy — “Government Cheese”
An inventor, family man, ex-con and career B&E specialist and all around hustler. Doesn’t exactly fit how we’ve generally seen David Oyelowo (“Selma,””The Book of Clarence”) on screen, big or small. Simone Missick co-stars. Yeah, I barely recognized Bokeem Woodbine … Continue reading
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