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Monthly Archives: June 2025
Thursdays are for Cine-bingeing
It’s a long day at the movies which I hope to squeeze in zombies, Rebel and brides and Tom Hiddleston. A couple of movies, maybe as many as four. A popcorn addiction nourished, kids films avoided. Hard to avoid zombies, … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Jeremy Allen White is “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere”
The Golden Globe (LOL) winning star of “The Bear” plays The Boss at a pivotal moment in his hyped rise from star to “artist” to “legend.” It’s about writing and performing the confessional “Nebraska” LP, and getting “suits” to believe … Continue reading
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Movie Review: An Indian Woman stands up to a “Pinch,” and Faces the Consequences
Uttera Singh’s “Pinch” is a picture that runs on outrage. It shows us a sex crime and demonstrates how hard it is to get anyone — including women, her own mother and even herself — to take it seriously in … Continue reading
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Netflixable? A Monstrous Hit-man takes on Masked Mass Murderers in Japan’s “Demon City”
Movies like “Demon City” are why we pay extra attention to that one credit in an action picture’s production — “action choreographer” or “stunt coordinator.” More that one actor I’ve interviewed over the years has mentioned he or she took … Continue reading
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Tagged action-film, fight-choreographer, inspiration, manga, martial-arts-slaughter, movie-review, netflix-yakuza-thriller
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Movie Preview: Duhamel’s a hit-man laying low, but with “London Calling”
On the run from a London job “gone wrong,” forced to babysit a mob boss’s son (Jeremy Ray Taylor) and make a (Murderous?) “man out of him.” Aiden Gillen, EveryVillain Arnold Vosloo and Daniah De Villiers star in this Sept. … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: A Brit Baby Boomer lost in His Own World — “Billy Liar” (1963)
Falling into “Billy Liar” is no easy feat, even for a film buff, over sixty years after it was released. It’s been included in more than one list of “the 100 Best British Films Ever Made,” albeit in the bottom … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: “The Naked Gun” remake gets a full trailer
August 1, Danny Huston is a villain, Pamela Anderson is a “person of interest” (loooove interest) and Liam Neeson is the most Dangerous Drebbin of them all.
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Movie Preview: Malkovich and Fanny Ardant, “Mr. Blake, At your Service!”
John Malkovich acts in French? He serves! He schemes! He shoots? Mon dieu!
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Movie Review: Julianne, Sydney and Domhnall know what goes down in “Echo Valley”
The questions pop to mind early and somewhat often in the new thriller “Echo Valley.” Wait, how did that tiny young woman lift…Her 60something mother chose what to dump a body in a lake…So did the ex-husband take up with … Continue reading
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BOX OFFICE: “Dragon” Flies High, “Materialists” cash in, “Stitch” clears the $800 million mark
Kids’ entertainment has been king of the box office this summer, as animated franchises turned into CGI assisted “live action” remakes have become the latest “sure thing” in that corner of the marketplace. First it was cell-animated fare of the … Continue reading
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