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Monthly Archives: August 2025
BOX OFFICE: Anime Owns Late August — “Kpop Demon Hunter Singalong” clears $18, edging “Weapons” — “Relay” opens weak
When summer cinema goers go away, the anime fans come out to play. Netflix’s two-day weekend release of the kitschy animated “Kpop Demon Hunters” is on track to topple “Weapons” as the biggest title at the box office on this, … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Daniel Day-Lewis returns! “Anemone”
Sure, he’d have you believe that he’s ended his “retirement” to do a movie for a lad director named Ronan Day-Lewis. But we’re not fooled. He jumped at the chance to play an old soldier haunted by his past with … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Post WWI Germans learn there’s no recreating “Eden”
The setting is forbidding, the political parable heavy-handed and human nature “inevitable” in “Eden,” Ron Howard’s dip into real history for a sociology lesson that can apply to today. It’s an all-star rendering of a true story of Germans who … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Corporate Villains Kept at Bay via “Relay”
Every thriller needs a good hook, and “Relay” has a doozy. How can you protect your anonymity and preserve your identity in the modern surveillance state, when data harvesting, phone bugging and tracing has moved from the state into the … Continue reading
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Thursday Movie Matinees — “Relay” with Riz, or Opie Goes to “Eden”
The dog days of summer cinema occasionally produce a gem. “A Constant Gardener” was an Oscar winner that came out in late August, after all. Maybe it’s “A Little Prayer,” opening next weekend. Austin Butler has an action comedy next … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: A little girl, a Mutt and a Quest to Save the Aussie Family Farm with the help of a “Runt”
“Where you come from doesn’t matter” when it comes to doggy obedience trials. Does it? Jai Courtney, Deborah Mailman and Jack Thompson are the big names in the cast of this Down Under family film, with Craig Silvey writing a … Continue reading
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Movie Review: New Yorkers Connect, but Avoid Attraction, Love “Or Something” Like It.
“Or Something” is a not-half-bad indie romance in the “Before Sunrise,” “In Search of a Midnight Kiss” tradition. Two strangers are thrown together for a long day of trying to collect a debt. They talk and talk and try to … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Michael Chiklis is “The Senior,” a former football star looking to finish high school
Fiftysomething, a contractor, and “I’m eligible.” “Eligible for what?” He’s “like a 59 year old ‘Rudy.’” Mary Stuart Masterson and Rob Corddry co-star in this version of the true “redemption” story of Mike Flynt, which was finished a couple of … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Relationship Horror about what Constitutes a “Keeper”
The director of “Longlegs” and “The Monkey,” Osgood Perkins, parks Tatiana Maslany (“Stronger,” the “Perry Mason” remake) and another son of Donald Sutherland in his latest, which arrives in theaters just in time for the holidays (11-14). The horror. The … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Colin Farrell in Netflix’s Oscar bait — “Ballad of a Small Player”
The director of “Conclave,” the presence of Tilda Swinton, a gambling milieu and a veteran player’s descent into madness? Fala Chen, a whiff of the gambling Mecca of Macau. Because Vegas isn’t the only gaming city with a fake Eiffel … Continue reading
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