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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 Preview: Many Stars signed on as Cops, Robbers and Improv Comics in “Deep Cover”
Bryce Dallas Howard, Orlando Bloom and Nick Mohammed are improvisers recruited to infiltrate the mob, with Sean Bean, Paddy Considine and Ian McShane as cops and bad guys. It’s a British production, with Brit director and screenwriters. The “Safety Not … Continue reading
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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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Movie Preview: “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” see me get old
Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Woody, Dave Franco et al welcoming Morgan Freeman, Daniel Radcliffe and Rosamund Pike for this sequel to the 2013 sleeper hit, due out in Nov. Justice Smith is in it, if that seals the deal for you.
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Movie Preview: Dwayne Johnson wears prosthetics as UFC’s “The Smashing Machine”
I know it’s an A24 release rolling out Oct. 3, on the cusp of “awards season.” But how does Emily Blunt agree to co-star — again — with Dwayne “The Human Hemorhoid” Johnson without Disney money? An early UFC history … 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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Classic Film Review: It’s 2025 — 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 Preview: Kevin Spacey returns from the Wilderness — or Doesn’t — “1780”
Southern fried accent in Revolutionary War Pennsylvania? That totally tracks. Doesn’t look like much, but we’ll see, if this isn’t canceled pre release.
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Movie Preview: Blair Witch Myth Marketing Lives! “Weapons”
This August release is mainly interesting because of the way the “Maybrook Missing” children, who (in the film) dashed out of their homes and into the night at 2:17 pm, is being shallow faked into “reality.” It’s an August 8 … Continue reading
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