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Monthly Archives: April 2025
Documentary Preview: “Bono” in Black and White — “Stories of Surrender”
A different backing ensemble, with strings. A few hits. A few stories. Could be revealing, or another venture that gives the haters the fodder they need to go on living. Apple TV+, May 30.
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Movie Review: An Austro-Hungarian Aristocrat’s Daughter falls for “The Chambermaid”
The last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire are the setting of “The Chambermaid,” a same sex/class-crossing romance that blossoms in World War I era Prague. This sumptuous Czech/Slovak co-production, performed in Czech, Slovakian, Hungarian and German, is “Downton Abbey” with … Continue reading
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Netflixable? A mad bomber plots a “Bullet Train Explosion”
A 1975 Japanese thriller titled “Bullet Train,” about a high-speed passenger train with a bomb on board, one that will explode if the train slows beyond a triggered speed, inspired the bomb-on-a-bus thriller “Speed,” its sequel and lots of imitators. … Continue reading
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Documentary Review: “Tom Dustin: Portrait of a Comedian” pre-rehab
So a 50ish alcoholic manic depressive comic moves to Key West to run a comedy club. Sounds like a movie, right? Well, it did to Joe List. And as he’s one of the hot comics of his generation, he got … Continue reading
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Tagged comedy, documentary, film, humor, joe-list, key-west, movies, Reviews, stand-up-comedy
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Classic Film Review: It’s 2026 — Are we ready for What Cukor, Hepburn ,Tracy and Donald Ogden Stewart warned us about Fascism? “Keeper of the Flame” (1942)
Big speeches rife with “the F-word”– “fascism” — pack the third act of “Keeper of the Flame,” a mid-WWII MGM thriller that was a tad too anti-fascist for fat cat studio chief Louis B. Mayer. Those speeches also burden a … Continue reading
Movie Review: Melodrama polished to a fine sheen, “Bonjour Tristesse”
The serene overheated-via-slow-simmer melodrama “Bonjour Tristesse” leaves its 1950s origins behind in a shimmering new screen adaptation by first-time writer/director Durga Chew-Bose. Based on the most famous work of French college girl novelist Françoise Sagan, this tale of privilege, petulant … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Cry “Havoc,” and let’s slip Tom Hardy another ammo clip
Netflix writing a big fat check to the filmmaker who gave us the gonzo Indonesian action franchise “The Raid” was a smart move. But even fans of the over-the-top mayhem that is writer-director Gareth Evans’ trademark may be moved to … Continue reading
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Tagged chinese-triads, film, forest-whitaker, gareth-evans, havoc, netflix, review, timothy-olyphant, tom-hardy
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Movie Review: Affleck and Bernthal BOTH do the math in “The Accountant 2”
It’s too long and entirely too damned glib about the ultraviolent mayhem it unleashes on the just and the unjust. The plot is intentionally convoluted, with “hero” assassins and a disapproving Fed out to save a lady assassin from the … Continue reading
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Movie Review: It’s game-over if you can’t make it “Until Dawn”
You could probably tell in a couple of minutes that this weekend’s cinematic sacrificial lamb to the horror gods is based on a video game without being reminded that “Until Dawn” was born on Playstation in the opening credits. Stock … Continue reading
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Silencing the cell, it’s “Accountant 2” time
Curious to see how they explain Affleck’s accent in this sequel.
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