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Monthly Archives: June 2025
Movie Review: A Swiss Mom Takes Lovers to Fool Her son about his father — “Let Me Go”
“Let Me Go” is an intimate, brittle and somewhat chilly Swiss romance about a 40something single mom who stumbles into her feelings, despite a lifetime of avoiding that trap. Jeanne Balibar stars as a small town seamstress who takes regular … Continue reading
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Tagged love, romance, romance-movie-review, swiss-alps, writing
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Classic Film Review: Dick Powell knows when Time’s Up as “Johnny O’Clock”(1947)
There’s aren’t a lot of stars from Golden Age Hollywood that I regard as “can’t miss.” It’s basically a list that starts and ends with Dick Powell. Even Bogart had a misfire or two. John Wayne was a lumbering lump … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: ScarJo goes British? “Sister” to Sienna Miller, lover to Freida Pinto, Daughter to Kristin Scott Thomas in “My Mother’s Wedding”
I had not posted, to my knowledge, a single trailer from the latest “Jurassic” installment. I can’t sit in a theater watching Scarlett Johansson try to make it real, make it interesting, make it anything other than the empty-headed crap … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Mom’s lost it, Dad’s “rescued” her and Kids Give Chase — “A Kind of Madness”
It must be the lucid moments that hurt the most, the ones that can remind those with dementia or the other madnesses of old age of just what they’ve lost and what a fog they’re trapped in the rest of … Continue reading
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Tagged dementia-movies, food, memory-care, movie-review, movies, south-africa, south-african-cinema
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Movie Preview: Tony Hale’s Kid can “Sketch” a magical world to life with just a pen
This August 6 looks sweet and Angel Studios wholesome.
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Netflixable? Careerists find Baby Fever “Semi-Soeter” (Semi-Sweeter) in this South African farce
“Semi-Soeter” is a broad, low-hanging fruit “Who has time for a baby?” comedy from South Africa. It’s a sequel to “Semi-Soet” (Semi Sweet), a 2012 South African hit about an ad agency careerist, Jaci (Anel Alexander) who hires a model … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Julia Garner’s a teacher whose class disappears, Josh Brolin wants to know where they went — “Weapons”
This one’s giving off “Stranger Things/Village of the Damned” vibes. Been meaning to post it all weekend, as this second trailer is one of the best previews in theaters right now. Toby Huss, Alden Ehrenreich, Benedict Wong and Amy Madigan … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: An English Child’s Eye View of WWII — “Hope and Glory
There’s a glorious nostalgia to the great British director John Boorman’s World War II memoir, “Hope and Glory.” The sentiment is what sticks with you, a naive child’s memories of not the fear, violence and loss, but of the freedom, … Continue reading
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Tagged british-cinema, charley-boorman, classic-film-review, john-boorman, sarah-miles, world-war-ii-films
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Movie Review: Stormare wants Kinnear to find Duhamel, who’s gone “Off the Grid”
Career bit player Ricky Russert, who was in “I, Tonya” and TV’s “Outer Banks” and even the recent “MacGuyer” reboot , gets a featured role as a villain in “Off the Grid,” a Josh Duhamel star-vehicle about a scientist who … Continue reading
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Tagged b-movie, greg-kinnear, josh-duhamel, movies, peter-stormare, Reviews
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Movie Review: You’ll feel “Sweet Relief” when this inept indie thriller is over
It’s a little known truth of indie film sets that the “indier” the film, the less likely you’ll be able to tell the cast from the crew when visiting the shoot. I came to this conclusion covering such low budget, … Continue reading
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Tagged amherst, bad-movie, film, horror, indie-film, massachusetts, movie-review, movies, Reviews
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