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Monthly Archives: August 2025
Classic Film Review: Seminal Cinema — The Exquisite “Ju Dou” (1990) is Restored
The “Fifth Generation” of alumni of China’s Beijing Film Academy first made their marks at home and abroad with two ’80s films — Chen Kaige’s “Yellow Earth”(1984) and Zhang Yimou’s “Red Sorghum” (1988). The color in their titles was a … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Driver, Bialik, Rampling, Cate, Indya and Waits in Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother”
A great cast adorns this droll holiday film about family from the King of Deadpan, Jim Jarmusch.
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BOX OFFICE: “Weapons” outdraws “Jaws” to Win Labor Day Weekend — “Caught Stealing” opens better than “The Roses”
Every now and then, studios remember that A) audiences come to the movies for the shared experience of living through a film together and B) that they have a back catalog of titles sure to draw a crowd of fellow … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Resisting the Nazis, weighing “Truth & Treason” in an Angel Studios release
The fanbase of Angel Studios lined up around the block for “Sound of Freedom,” a ham-fisted child trafficking “true story” based on the declarations of a soundly discredited “crusader” and starring Mr. “Passion of the Christ,” Jim Caviezel. But the … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Emma and Jesse and Yorgos — “Bugonia”
Radicalized cranks kidnap a corporate queenpin. What? No dancing? Emma always dances for Yorgos Lanthimos! Oct. 24.
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Netflixable? Britain’s Best Join or are Pursued by “The Thursday Murder’s Club”
It’s not the silliest idea ever, taking “The Only Murders in the Building” and making the building Downton Abbey. “The Thursday Murders Club” is a lighthearted bit of senior sleuthing that takes a prime cut of Britain’s best and most … Continue reading
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Tagged books, film, mirren, movies, netflix, richard-osman, tennant
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Movie Preview: Rami Malek’s a Shrink, Shannon and Slattery Lawyers and Russell Crowe is Goering, on the stand at “Nuremburg”
This is the full first trailer to this star-studded November (Awards Season) release from Sony Classics. Looks good. Excellent casting. But as producer turned director James Vanderbilt gave us the lightly-regarded Dan Rather vs. Bush II drama “Truth,” keep your … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: A Finnish Avenger Goes Hollywood — “Sisu 2: Road to Revenge”
Stephen Lang is the villain, there’s more CGI to help make the slaughter more graphic and more over the top. Our Finn who’s been wronged turned his attentions from Nazis to Soviets (Same diff?) in this sequel. It’s short — … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: What’s it take for plumbers to be “Scared Sh–less?”
Because the world needs a Midnight movie at film festivals all over, a no-budget creature feature with a pun title about turds. Liquid Plumber won’t save us this time. Oct. 3? Here goes.
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Movie Preview: All the best Villains are Brits, “All the Devils are Here”
Eddie Marsan and Burn Gorman, actor names made for Heavies. Sam Claflin, Suki Waterhouse and Rory Kinnear also star in this thriller about hoodlums laying low in Dartmoor. Sept. 18.
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