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Monthly Archives: April 2025
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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Series Preview: Julianne Moore has Milly Alcock, but not sister Meghann Fahy, as one of her “Sirens”
A huge estate on a posh island, lots of “followers” who live at the beck and call of a mysterious beauty only her closest associates call “Kiki,” a sister in search of a sibling who “wasn’t there” for their father’s … 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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BOX OFFICE: “Sinners” holds off “Accountant 2,” ancient “Revenge of the Sith” slips by “Minecraft,” “Until Dawn” bombs
The crowd pleasing sequel to Ben Affleck’s autistic assassin thriller “The Accountant” didn’t have much of a chance against Ryan Coogler’s “Get Out” sized horror phenomenon, “Sinners.” “Sinners” is having a near-historic “hold” on its second weekend. After opening with … Continue reading
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Tagged accountant-2, box-office, film, horror, minecraft, movie, movies, revenge-of-the-sith, sinners, until-dawn
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Movie Preview: Elba and Cena, Idris and John are action hero “Heads of State”
This looks almost theatrical, like say Nettlix’s “Bullet Train” and a few other titles of late. But Amazon’s feeding us Idris Elba and John Cena as a prime minister and a movie star president who have to get physical, with … Continue reading
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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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Tagged ben-affleck, daniela-pineda, film, j-k-simmons, jon-bernthal, movies, the-accountant
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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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Movie Preview: Chinese history via the Cinema of Jia Zang-ke — “Caught by the Tides”
Twenty three years of films from the director of “Ash Is Purest White” and “Still Life” are sampled and re cut to make this epic of modern China. Many of the folks star Jia Zang-ke’s wife, Tao Zhang. May 9.
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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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Movie Review: A Gay Fantasia about Honest Abe’s Same Sex Romance — “Lavender Men”
“Lavender Men” is an ambitious but meandering and indulgent indie film failure. It’s not the subject matter that does it in, as it’s another film (“Lover of Men”) and play (“Oh, Mary!”) that dives into the notion that Abraham Lincoln … Continue reading
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Tagged elmer-ellsworth, film, gay-lincoln, horror, lincolns-lover, movie-review, movies, queer-history, Reviews
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