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Monthly Archives: June 2025
Movie Preview: Titus Welliver takes on Joe Hill’s “Abraham’s Boys: A Dracula Story”
Last Christmas’s “Nosferatu” remake was a Gothic Robert Eggers creep fest hit. So now there’s a mad dash to see who else can get THEIR version of a vampire tale in front of audiences, with Luc Besson’s “Dracula: A Love … Continue reading
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Series Preview: An American Girl with “Love Actually” dreams finds London entirely “Too Much”
Megan Stalter stars in as the dim American abroad in this series that looks like it could have enough laughs, situations and characters for a 90 minute movie rom-com. Alaa Habib, Richard E. Grant, Emily Ratajkowski, Naomi Watts, Kit Harington, … Continue reading
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Movie Review: The Demure Charms of Aisling Bea and Billie Lourd unleashed — “And Mrs”
“And Mrs” is a bittersweet and offbeat romantic comedy of love and loss and mourning, and a most unexpected star vehicle for unfiltered Irish comic Aisling Bea, nicely paired up with Carrie Fisher’s kid, Billie Lourd. Bea, one of the … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Ancient China sees a Bloody Martial Arts Brawl over the “Nine Ring Golden Dagger”
The first laugh in the martial arts quest thriller “Nine Ring Golden Dagger” might be its title. It was called “Blocking the Horse” in China. And the “dagger” that was mistranslated here is a sword attached to a seven or … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Bondage doesn’t necessarily lead to um, a “relationship” — “Oh, Hi!”
Hand cuffs, French toast, “Give me twelve hours to show you” what a “relationship” can be like. Who hasn’t been THERE, right? Molly Gordon, Logan Lerman, Geraldine Viswanathan, John Reynolds and David Cross star in this kinky (ish) flirting with … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Florida horrors of Lucid Dreaming — “Eye for an Eye”
Whitney Peak from “Hunger Games” stars, but you will recognize a couple of other faces in this “Sandman is coming for you” thriller. June 20, theaters and VOD via Vertical Releasing.
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Movie Preview: Ari Aster’s take on America’s waking nightmare — “Eddington”
Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, rivals in a Southwestern town riven by America’s poisonous political landscape and the lies that divide us. Emma Stone and Austin Butler also star in this one, which doesn’t exactly promise cinematic “escape” from the … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Streisand, O’Neal and Bogdanovich go Looney Tunes Madcap — “What’s Up, Doc?” (1972)
A handful of great filmmakers came to the movies as genuine cinema buffs. Truffaut to Tarantino, Godard and Schrader, Peter Bogdanovich to Park Chan Wook all were film fanatics, some even critics who found a path from taking notes and … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Eddie and Pete, Keke and Eva, “The Pickup”
Tim Story of “Barbershop,””Think Like a Man” and an earlier version of “Fantastic Four” directed this action comedy about armored car drivers (Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson) who fight back when they get robbed — with bizarre and perhaps amusing … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Taraji and Tyler Perry Grab that “Straw” that Breaks a Single Mom’s Back
Tyler Perry built his reputation as a champion of Black womanhood. He’s told mostly women’s stories, showcased actresses both famous and obscure and spared no makeup or hairstyling expense for his shiny soap operas and low comedies with a message. … Continue reading
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