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Daily Archives: May 23, 2025
Movie Preview: A Student Film Gets picked up for Wide Distribution — “Lands End”
A collaborative effort by UC Berkeley students resulted in this drama of three interconnected creative lives struggling to break through. Very polished looking, if a tad navel gazing in nature. Freestyle will serve this up June 13.
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Movie Preview: An Irish Romance decorated with Helena Bonham Carter, Gabriel Byrne and Pierce Brosnan — “Four Letters of Love”
Novelist Niall Williams adapted his novel for director Polly Steele (“Let Me Go”), a period piece built around a youthful love affair tested and assisted by faith, history, ghosts, etc. Ann Skelly and Finn O’Shea are the young lovers, with … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Dermot Mulroney’s a crooked senator who finds “Killing Mary Sue” a bit tricky
Sierra McCormick has the title role in this June 13 first-person-shooter action comedy. Note the “Fortnight” reference. Mulroney, French Stewart, Jake Busey, Jason Mewes, Sean Patrick Flanery, veteran heavy Martin Kove and I assume his son Jesse are also in … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Darren Aronosky has Austin Butler and Zoe Kravitz “Caught Stealing”
Aged punks, Hassidic gangsters and a clever vanity plate tumble together in this who-stole-what-from-whom action comedy Aronofsky’s not exactly box office, nor are his stars. So that may explain the “dumping ground of August” release date (8-29). They cut a … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning,” or so we presume
It’s all just too much, really. The flashbacks within flashbacks, serving up 30 years of “Mission: Impossible’s” Great Hits, dead characters (and deceased actors) revisited, the dangling from this or that, or diving, or dying — the A-bombs, missles ready … Continue reading
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