Daily Archives: July 18, 2025

Movie Preview: Your Friday Afternoon Think-Piece/Eye Candy — “Tron: Ares”

Militarizing “Tron” in an age of AI fears and Big Tech Supervillain abuse seems…on the nose. Jared Leto, Gillian Anderson, Greta Lee and Jodie-Turner-Smith are the stars. And here’s Jeff Bridges, still taking a “Tron” credit, all these decades later. … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: “Deaf” and Pregnant

This Spanish drama about an expectant mom fretting that her baby-to-be might inherit whatever made her deaf from birth stars Miriam Garlo and Álvaro Cervantes as her hearing partner/baby daddy, the one she clings to/fights with over childcare difficulties for … Continue reading

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The Killer Bit that Got “Colbert” canceled?

It was this. Not the Turkish mustache business. “The Big Fat Bribe” rant. Paramount will rue the day it didn’t simply pay out on his contract rather than have him sticking around for more months, bad-mouthing Skydance, Paramount and their … Continue reading

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Movie Review: A COVID/BLM Protests/Trumpism-Conspiracy allegory set in “Eddington,” New Mexico

There’s a veritable NRA convention of ordnance discharged in “Eddington,” Ari Aster’s All American parable of “How did we get here?” But the one weapon not discharged is the most apt metaphor for the latest from the writer/director of “Midsommar,” … Continue reading

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