Daily Archives: April 7, 2025

Movie Preview: Scarjo & Benicio, Cumberbatch & Cranston, Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenican Scheme”

You can tell it’s an Anderson picture within five seconds. The kitschy production design and graphics, the voice over, the Michael Cera/Jeffrey Wright/Rupert-Riz riffs? May 30. Expect to be tickled to death by a tale of oligarchs and terrorists and … Continue reading

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Classic Film Review: Stoppard has His Way with “Hamlet” for laughs — “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead” (1990)

In search of some vintage laughs among the “classic” collections of my favorite streamers, I stumbled back into the great British playwright Tom Stoppard’s lone directing credit, his star-studded big screen adaptation of “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead.” I saw … Continue reading

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