Daily Archives: November 13, 2025

Classic Film Review: Lesser Lubitsch, a “Heaven Can Wait” (1943) that Bores

When we think of the Hollywood comedies by the great German expat Ernst Lubitsch, we remember Garbo at her drollest, a Bolshevik who falls in love in “Ninotchka,” the doors-slamming-on-Nazis backstage farce “To Be or Not to Be” and the … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: An outbreak, a “Thing is spreading,” and Liam Neeson’s here to help put it in “Cold Storage”

Getting strong “The Stand” and “Andromeda Strain” with a splattery comic edge from this trailer. Georgina Campbell and Joe Keery co-star in this star screenwriter David Koepp (“Jurassic Park,” “Mission: Impossible,” “Ghost Town,” “Indiana Jones/Dial of Destiny”) project. Feb. 13.

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Movie Preview: Timing? “The Devil Wears Prada 2”

A sequel to the 2006 film based on a novel even further from a different era, with everybody involved 20 years older, seems kind of…made for streaming. But when you’ve got Streep, Hathaway, Blunt and Tucci on board, there’s nothing … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Sam Rockwell is “FROM THE FUTURE!” — “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die”

A week doesn’t go by when I don’t dial hop past some “Pirates of the Caribbean” telecast and wonder “Whatever happened to Gore Verbinski? The dude directed “Mouse Hunt,” “The Mexican,” “The Ring” and “The Weather Man” before selling his … Continue reading

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