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Monthly Archives: August 2025
It is sick sick SICK to open “Freaky Friday” the same day as “Weapons”
I’m just saying.
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Series Review: Momoa’s “Shogun” sized epic of Hawai’i’s struggle to unite — “Chief of War”
Jason Momoa had to play “Aquaman” a bunch of times, put in his time in “Dune” and “Fast and Furious” movies and muscle through a season of “Game of Thrones” to build up the clout it took to get “Chief … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Showing “Him” the Horror of Pro Football’s Deal with the Devil
Marlon Wayans explains the rules, the deal, to Tyriq Withers in this Jordan Peele produced allegory about The Game that Ate Sundays and what it really costs those who play it. “What are you willing to SACRIFICE?” “EVERY-thing!” Take that … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Clooney is a movie star who hits rock bottom…by co-starring with Sandler? — “Jay Kelly”
Netflix’s Oscar bait this awards season is to pair up Clooney with the biggest cretin they have under contract? Noah Baumbach keeps trying to normalize-elevate mouth-breathing no-talent Adam Sandler. Jim Broadbent, Clooney, Laura Dern — all these damned Oscar winners, … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Mckenna Grace, Allison Williams, Dave Franco, Mason Thames — “Regretting You”
The author “This Ends With Us” is adapted again for this uplifting (or else) tragic romance directed by the filmmaker who made the weeper “The Fault in Our Stars.” Wiliiams and Grace plays a mother and daughter tested by tragedy. … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Ralph Fiennes is a WWI choirmaster with a bit too much German about him for “The Choral”
A real Who’s Who of British character actors flesh out the supporting cast — Roger Allam, Simon Russell Beale and Mark Addy among them — of this film from “The Madness of King George” Nicholas Hytner and the screenwriter Alan … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Oscar winner Brendan Fraser’s an Actor in Tokyo taking the role of a lifetime — “Rental Family”
A Japanese/American variation on the “Get somebody to play her dad” story trope. Ever seen Gerard Butler in “Dear Frankie,” for instance? Searchlight has Hikari’s “Rental Family,” a dollop of sweetness, slated for the holidays. She directed “Beef” and “37 … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Lost in Dementia and Memory Care, seeking that “Familiar Touch”
“Familiar Touch” is a simple, documdrama-real film of frank honesty and sensitivity about dementia and adjusting to life in Memory Care. If you’re fortunate enough to not know that label, describing the wing or floor of any nursing home or … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Swedish Law Student attempts “An Honest Life” among Anarchists
Young Simon learns the Latin phrase “Ex Liga Libertas,” “from the law comes freedom,” on his first day at law school in Lund, Sweden. But hanging out with anarchists, listening to their “always be drunk” Baudelaire rules for living and … Continue reading
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