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Monthly Archives: November 2025
Movie Review: “The Running Man” Stumbles into a Dead End
About thirty minutes into the Glen Powell/Edgar Wright remake of “The Running Man” I thought “This is kind of working.” I invested in this updating of Stephen King’s dytopian sci-fi horror for the age of ICE, fascism and murderously amoral … Continue reading
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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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Tagged don-ameche, film, gene-tierney, lubitsch, movie-reviews, movies, Reviews, screwball-comedy
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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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Movie Review: Exiled Man and Woman wrestle with their Pasts on “The Silent Planet”
“The Silent Planet” is a sci-fi allegory that attempts to take the pulse of the human condition in our current, fear-immigrants moment and doesn’t quite come off. One can appreciate the cleverness of seeing The Tablelands in Canada’s Gros Morne … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Zooey and Charlie Cox break up, but “Merv” the dog isn’t having it
Zooey Deschanel and “Daredevil” Charlie Cox star in an old-fashioned/new fashioned romance of the sort that Deschanel used to excel in. They play a couple splitting up, with a dog who isn’t taking it well. He needs a trip to … Continue reading
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Book Review — “The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki: The Influences and Inspirations Behind the Iconic Films”
This fall’s North American box office success of such anime franchises as “Chainsaw Man” and “Demon Slayer” and the vast collection of such titles on offer from Netflix underscore the soaring popularity and international appeal of the Japanese animated art … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: A Dog Eat Dog/Winner Take All Job Market leaves Him with “No Other Choice”
This festival darling, the latest from Park Chan Wook (“Old Boy”) has echoes of the Michael Caine dark comedy about (literal) cutthroat corporate life, “A Shock to the System.” Long term unemployment means you’ve got to do something to better … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Joel Edgerton can’t stop boys from bullying boys — “The Plague”
“Terrible twos” and teens have nothing on Tweens when it comes to imagininative cruelty, shunning and making you question what you know and who you think you are. This Dec. 24 release wears lots of newfound labels — “body horror” … Continue reading
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