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Monthly Archives: November 2025
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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Tagged bible, christianity, diane-keaton, documentary-review, don-king, heaven, jesus
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BOX OFFICE: Elle Fanning and “Predator: Badlands” open big, “Nuremberg,” “Sarah’s Oil,””Christy” and “Die My Love” not so much
Adding the dismembered android upper half of Elle Fanning to the ancient but not-quite-played-out “Predator” franchise is paying off as it rolled up some $14 million+ Thursday night and Friday, on its way to a $40 million opening weekend. Deadline.com … Continue reading
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Tagged box-office, elle-fanning, film, horror, jennifer-lawrence, movie, movies, predator, Reviews
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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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Documentary Review: A “Caterpillar” figures a change in Eye Color will Make him a Butterfly
“Caterpillar” presents itself as a gay man’s documentary journey of self-discovery, when it’s really about body dysphoria/dysmorphia and faddish cosmetic surgery taken to its extreme. David Taylor, a Miami hairdresser is biracial, wrestling with a troubled childhood, acceptance and obsessive … Continue reading
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Tagged eye-color-implants, film, gay-narcissism, indian-surgery-mills, movies
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Movie Preview: Amanda Seyfried founds The Shakers — “The Testament of Ann Lee”
Mona Fastvold’s film biography of a prophet of her times, a founder of a Christian sect which endures in some corners of New England to this day, suggests passion and historical detail — well, save for the fully furled sails … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Finding “Feel Good” feelings and Purpose after Cancer — “Paper Flowers”
This feel good drama, “inspired by a Huffington Post” essay titled “Thank You, Cancer,” is an unlikely “for your consideration” contender being rolled out during awards season. Not a “name” most of us will recognize in the cast, but a … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Postpartum as Improv Exercise — “Die My Love”
Most movies come to you, but challenging ones make you come to them. Even when they’re assaulting you in your seat, they demand your attention, understanding and interpretation to come off. “Die My Love” is a broken romance and deep … Continue reading
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