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Monthly Archives: June 2025
Movie Preview: Ryan Gosling puts “the NOT in AstroNAUT” in “Project Hail Mary”
Far fetched, funny-ish sci-fi about a “Hail Mary” to attempt to save humanity from a…virus infecting stars? Cutesy and calamitous. March 20 of 2026?
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Movie preview: One last “Superman” trailer
The promotions for this reboot have been all over the place — sentimental and cutesy, hard nosed and heroic, a do gooder swimming against the tide of self interest and the self serving simpering of America today. The casting looks … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: A Sinister and Campy scheme to “Kill the Jockey”
Argentine filmmaker Luis Ortega gave us “Lulu,” “El Angel” and “Damn Summer.” This looks sexy, silly and sinister. Music Box Films has this upcoming release, starring Úrsula Corberó and in the title role, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, and it looks like … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Broadbent “walks 500 miles” in “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry”
Oscar winner Jim Broadbent earns a fine showcase in “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry,” a sweet story of grief, regret, obligations and the kindness of strangers. It’s based on a novel by Rachel Joyce that seems inspired by any … Continue reading
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Documentary Preview: Hey Vern! Jim Varney gets his own bio doc — “The Importance of Being Ernest”
I was working in Tennessee near the end of the Ernest P. Worrell fad and got to interview this serious actor turned famous bumkin goofball. He’d come into town to help talk actors into joining acting unions, make appearances plugging … Continue reading
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Movie preview: Hardwicke and Steve Coogan recreate an Irish soccer feud — “Saipan”
Éanna Hardwicke (Vivarium (2019) stars as Roy Keane, who had a very public bust up with his World Cup manager Mick McCarthy, something the Irish weren’t quick to forgive. Kind of the anti “Ted Lasso?”
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Movie Preview: Scoot McNairy means Trouble on the Horse Ranch, “East of Wall”
Tabitha and Porshia Zimiga star in this newly-widowed, hardnosed horse trainer who provides shelter to wayward teens and her daughter, fighting to ride, to save the dream and save the ranch from guys like Scoot McNairy, who has the perfect … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: An Italian Girl tastes “La Dolce Vita” era Rome with Movie Stars Lily James and Willem Dafoe
James and Dafoe are joined by Joe Keery and Rachel Sennott in this Italian job build around a Plain Jane played by Rebecca Antonaci. Saverio Costanzo wrote and directed this love letter to the movies and what they used to … Continue reading
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BOX OFFICE: Brad Pitt, 62, laps the Competition as “F1” blows up — “M3GAN 2.0” is the update nobody uploads
Brad Pitt’s decades of stardom haven’t seen many missteps. He took that break-out bit part in “Thelma & Louise” all those years agoand made romances (“Mr. and Mrs. Smith”), thrillers (“Se7en”), boundary-pushing fight films (“Fight Club”), sports dramas (“Moneyball”), sci … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Improv Comics Howard, Mohammed and Bloom go “Deep Cover” looking for laughs in London
“Deep Cover” is an exceptionally silly Brit comedy about improv actors lying on the fly as undercover bait for London police. Logic goes out the window early on, with no means of re-entry. And it’s built around Bryce Dallas Howard, … Continue reading
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