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Monthly Archives: November 2025
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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Netflixable? Guillermo del Toro and Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”
Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” is Gothic horror rendered in the grandest strokes. The expansive, baroque settings are grandeur incarnate, with grandiose performances pitched to fill every pixel of the Grand Guignol frame that the scarlet, grey and gloomy green backdrops … Continue reading
Movie Previews: So how “real” will Fuqua’s “Michael” Jackson bio pic or Netflix’s “King of Pop” get?
Seems like this would be the most challenging music biopic of them all to keep honest for a deep dive. An NPR program a few years back tackled the subject of Michael Jackson and why Black people have been disinclined … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Dolph and Michael Jai White roll their eyes at the Dork who says he’s “the best” — “Exit Protocol”
You’d think these sorts of things would be figured out at a table read, if not in the audition. Give your leading man his pages, make him read some of the fifth rate Raymond Chandler “tough guy” voice-over narration you … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Diane Keaton’s lone doc directing credit, “Heaven” (1987) earns a restoration/re-release
The recent passing of Oscar winning actress Diane Keaton is reason enough to revisit one of her few directing credits, the lone documentary on her resume. “Heaven,” which she completed and Island Pictures released back in 1987, when Keaton was … Continue reading
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Christmas comes early? For a Miyazaki fan, you betcha
Can’t wait to read and review the new book by Nicolas Rapold. Great anime is always a grand escape, like visiting a museum where the artwork tells a tale.
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