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Monthly Archives: September 2025
Netflixable? “Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story”
The stakes could not be higher. The sneering gang of armed men burst into the house, punch and abuse the inhabitants and ransack the place looking for “the money.” The husband is bloodied and the pregnant wife slapped around, all … Continue reading
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Tagged film, film-review, horror, lifetime-original-movie, marcela-borges, movie-reviews, movies, orlando-crime-story
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Movie Review: Widower Timothy Spall crosses Britain on “The Last Bus”
The first impression Timothy Spall made on film fans was when he played a plump, delusional, somewhat daft chef in Mike Leigh’s quirky slice-of-working-class dream, “Life is Sweet.” Restaurateur Aubrey thought putting boiled bacon consumme, prune quiche and pork cyst … Continue reading
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Tagged british-travel, film, john-ogroats, lands-end, movies, Reviews, timothy-spall, tubi
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ASC Blackfriars, “Two Gents”
A famous stage director who ran the drama department of a theatre conservatory I used to cover and review once told me that in this show, the best test for a young actor is pairing them up with the dog, … Continue reading
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Camera Heritage Museum, Staunton, VA.
One of those quirky little museums that celebrate a collector and her or his passions. The Camera Heritage Museum in Staunton has some 7000 cameras and accessories, nearly two centuries’ worth — under one roof and on display. Here, David … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: A second peek at Daniel Day-Lewis in “Anemone”
Samantha Morton and Sean Bean join the Oscar icon in his big screen comeback, a tale of sibling violence and isolation and the past you “cannot face.” Oct. 3.
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Series Preview: Jason Clarke hunts “The Last Frontier” for
Clarke plays a Federal Marshal hunting for convicts who’ve escaped from the crashed plane that was carrying them in this 10 episode thriller series from Apple. Haley Bennett, Alfre Woodard, Dominic West and Simone Kessell co-star as loved ones, escapees, … Continue reading
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BOX OFFICE: “Him” Underwhelms, “Big Bold Beautiful” bombs, “Demon Slayer” slays by default
Late September turns out to be a pretty bad time to send a football-bashing body horror thriller out into the world. “Him” stars Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers and Julia Fox, and is wearing the “producd by Jordan Peele” badge of … Continue reading
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Tagged anime, box-office, conjuring, downton, film, horror, movie-review, movies, Reviews
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Movie Review: A Slight Flight of Fantasy Fancy billed as “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey”
Pairing up Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell for a big screen fantasy romance doesn’t pay off in “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,” a film that has one or two big moments on its road-trip-romantic “journey,” a little digitally augmented “beauty” … Continue reading
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Movie Review: The Deal with the Devils it takes for “Him” to Make it in Pro Football
Pro football, the movie doctor about to take on the institution over the issue of “Concussion” was famously warned, “owns a day of the week. The same day the Church used to own!” “Him” is a horror movie that takes … Continue reading
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Tagged him, horror, jordan-peele, marlon-wayans, tyriq-withers
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Documentary Review: Entrancing “Trains” is a History of Europe through its Rails and Rolling Stock
“Trains,” the new dialogue-free “found footage” documentary by the Polish filmmaker Maciej Drygas, is one of the most original pieces of movie-making you’re likely to run across. Drygas tells a history of Europe through the first half of the 20th … Continue reading
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Tagged documentary-review, europe, history, railroad, the-holocaust, trains, travel, world-war-i
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