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Daily Archives: June 21, 2025
Classic Film Review: Pinter, Losey and Bogarde wind up the Clockwork Creepiness of “The Servant”(1963)
It’s been so long since I reviewed anything scripted by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter that I had to refresh my memory about the traits associated with the phrase “Pinteresque.” Let’s see, an “atmosphere of menace,” suspense and tension heightened by … Continue reading
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Tagged bogarde, british-cinema, classic-film-review, film, losey, movies, pinter, Reviews, sarah-miles
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Movie Preview: A “Found Footage” horror comedy about faking Bigfoot
Maybe it’s just me, but doesn’t it feel as if any “found footage” spoof should have come out, oh, 12-20 years ago? Of COURSE that title’s already been used (on a 2012 thriller, and a 2016 “3D” horror comedy). The … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Old friends, “Cannibus infused” cuisine, and a missile on its way to wreck the party — “Nuked”
It’s the year of apocalyptic movies, thanks to the last few years of American politics. Lucy Punch, Justin Bartha, Anna Camp and Natasha Legerro star in Deena Kashper’s “We’re all gonna DIE!” stoned farce.
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Netflixable? A Brazilian pop-star biopic — “Latin Blood: The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso”
From the moment little Ney de Souza Pereira spied cabaret and carnival icon Elvira Pagã on the stage, the die was cast and his young life had purpose. All those beatings he stubbornly endured from his military officer dad because … Continue reading
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Tagged brazil, foreign-film-on-netflix, matogrosso-movie-review, music, musical-biopic, ney-matogrosso, Reviews
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BOX OFFICE: “Dragon” slays Zombies and “Elio,” “28 Years Later” devours $30 million
There was a time when the moment a new Pixar title landed a release date, every other studio threw up its hands as a sea of suits whined, “Well, THAT weekend’s out.” But post-COVID, factoring in inflation, “family” audiences are … Continue reading
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