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Monthly Archives: July 2025
It’s Sushi and Cinema Thursday –“Fantastic Four” and “Oh, Hi!” Time
Half price sushi day at Pangea, our favorite sushi joint in the big city (Danville, VA.) chased by a double feature. Because we all need to escape the heat for a day. And the news.
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Documentary Review: “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley”
Filmed appreciations of potentially great artists who “die young and leave a beautiful corpse” are many. If these post mortems have a common thread, it’s the difficulty in separating the myth from the musician, painter, actor or writer. And the … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Old Man Pierce Brosnan teaches an immigrant kid to box — “Giant”
A true story about an Irishman in 1980s Sheffield, UK, his gym and that one cocky showman-in-the-making (Amir El-Masry) among the kids from all over who come to learn from him — Prince Naseem “Naz” Hamed.
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Movie Preview: A Second Look at Angels Keanu and Sandra Oh, Keke, Seth and Aziz Ansari testing “Good Fortune”
The second trailer undercuts some of the delight of the first one. “Surprise” is the missing ingredient, so that’s no biggie. This is due out in mid Oct.
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Classic Film Review: Anna May Wong is the “Lady from Chungking” (1942)
Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American movie star, was already famous — a Hollywood mainstay since the silent film era who first appeared on screen at 14 back in 1919 — when World War II broke out. With the … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: An unlikely Duplass holiday rom-com, populated by “The Baltimorons”
Michael Strassner is the ex-standup who cracks a tooth on Xmas Eve, Liz Larsen is his distracted, not-instantly-compassionate emergency dentist, a woman with family and “issues” all her own. Strassner co-wrote it, and lots of other Strassners are in the … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “The Musicians” become a reluctant String Quartet
“The Musicians” is a droll comedy about four string highly-strung string players who must come together as a “quartet” to perform an original composition on four legendary instruments for a worldwide classical music TV audience. If I haven’t scared you … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Elle Fanning, “Predator: Badlands”
Elle plays the blonde who allies herself with a Predator for self-preservation reasons. Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi also stars in this latest tale of Predators abroad. Nov. 7.
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Movie Preview: Murder most foul, death by “A Thousand Cuts”
I’m always puzzled by why a writer-director would insist his name be splashed on the credits of his few-names-as-stars comic thriller. Especially when his (in this case) track record is measurably awful. Seeing that a LOT these days. But maybe … Continue reading
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Netflixable? A few thoughts on “Trainwreck: Balloon Boy”
Like most folks, I suspect, I didn’t figure there was much if anything more that could or should be said about the “Great Balloon Boy Hoax of ’09.” So there wasn’t much interest in this latest Netflix “Trainwreck” doc about … Continue reading
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