Monthly Archives: March 2025

Classic Film Review: Not all Hackman “classics” are created equal — “The Domino Principle” (1977)

Some vintage cinema you begin watching with the idea that you’re to see a “classic” featuring an Oscar winner, a famed producer/director and a handful of legends of the big and small screen. And some of those movies remind you … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: “A Nice Indian Boy” just wants to meet another “Nice Indian Boy”

Mindy Kaling produced this April 4 (Wayfarer) release about a gay Indian doctor who meets his dreamboat — a white man adopted by Indian parents. This is a culture clash comedy STUFFED with POSSIBILITIES — Indian diaspora attitudes towards homosexuality, … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: The Inner Life and Trials of a mild-mannered Librarian — “Darkest Miriam”

Britt Lower stars in this account of the loneliness of a profession which entails a lot more than just books. Any public librarian in any town or city of any size deals with the cranky, loud elderly, unruly youth, the … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Crispin Glover takes on a Lon Chaney silent classic — “A Blind Bargain”

Paul Bunnell directed and co-wrote this “reimagining” of a horror silent film from 1922, starring Lon Chaney then, Crispin Glover today. It was about a doctor who experiments on a man in exchange for giving medical care to the “subject’s” … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Keaton, Lulu and Hodge taste the benefits of “Arthur’s Whisky”

Of all the “Mad Money,” “Poms” and “Book Club” trifles that Oscar winner Diane Keaton has made since stardom faded, “Arthur’s Whisky” might be the most trifling. But this British nothing of a “fountain of youth” comedy manages to go … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Band’s music video becomes “found footage” in this creepy “Director’s Cut”

And you thought “Found footage” horror was dead. Silly you. This thriller makes its way into public view (streaming) Mar. 18.

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Netfixable? Beware of anything the Germans deem “Delicious”

Writer-director Nele Mueller-Stöfen’s “Delicious” hides its secrets well. But if you’re observant, the clues pile up long before the thriller’s too-patient build-up drops its big revelations on you. She’s tapping into international inequality in this horrific tale of German “haves” … Continue reading

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Series Preview: Seth Rogen runs “The Studio,” and famous faces fill this series about Making Movies

Catherine O’Hara and Martin Scorsese, Olivia Wilde and Ike Barinholtz and Kathryn Hahn and Zac Efron and Anthony Mackie and Bryan Cranston and Paul Dano and Nicholas Stoller are on the cast list — some have cameos, playing themselves — … Continue reading

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Series Preview: A rimshot sitcom tailor-made for Nathan Lane — “Mid Century Modern”

“Will & Grace” producers, Linda Lavin as the mother and Nathan Lane as mother hen/mother superior and host to a couple of old friends (Matt Bomer and Nathan Lee Graham) in a gay sitcom for a gay bashing era. This … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: French Fille admits “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life”

A writer’s sojourn in “The Jane Austen Residency” is sweet, romantic and fun? Or will it be, as the French say, “le hot mess?” “What are you waiting for, Mr. Darcy?” This French flavored Laura Piani play upon “Pride and … Continue reading

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