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Daily Archives: September 16, 2025
Movie Review: Can Orlando Bloom “Make Weight” for his Comeback Fight? “The Cut”
Just when you think there’s nothing new that can be done with “The Big Fight” picture, “The Cut” comes along and finds all its drama in the preliminaries. The latest film from the director of “Anthropoid” is a fascinating exercise … Continue reading
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Tagged boxing-movie, orlando-bloom, republic-pictures, sean-ellis, the-cut, turturro
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Robert Redford: 1936-2025
Hard as it might be to believe, there is such a thing as being too “classically handsome” or just entirely too good looking when you’re a movie star. Don’t ask Warren Beatty, whose ambition and range were obvious and whose … Continue reading
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Tagged film, movie-reviews, movies, paul-newman, robert-redford
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Movie Review: “Samurai Fury” Triggers an Insurrection in Old Nippon
A badass ronin swaggers and slices his way through Medieval Kyoto in “Samurai Fury,” an action epic about a tax revolt in a time of plague and famine. Ryosuke Kakine’s historical novel — “Muromachi Outsiders” — was inspired by real … Continue reading
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Tagged japan, japanese-action-cinema, movie-review, ronin-movie, samurai
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Movie Review: Coming Out in the ’90s is no Easy Thing for “Plaintclothes” Cop
“Plainclothes” is a simple but engaging “coming out” tale of the sort we’ve been seeing for decades now. But the performances are understated and spot-on. And writer-director Camen Emmi’s feature debut reels us in through the simple trick of not … Continue reading
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Tagged film, gay-history, movie-review, movies, queer-in-the-90s
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