Monthly Archives: December 2025

Movie Preview: “Avengers: Been There, Done That,” aka “Avengers: Doomsday”

Dec. 26. Which means youve got a whole year to get worked up over this revival.

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Movie Preview: Mandy Moore has to be “The Breadwinner” as she’s married to Nate Bargatz

“Clean” stand-up comic of the moment Bargatz gets top billing (LOL) in this family-friendly and seemingly dated comedy about role-reversal in “provider” terms in one household in an economy shoved into a death spiral. This could be cute, even if … Continue reading

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Netflixable? Danish Dame goes “Mango” for a Man in Málaga

“Mango” is a tepid Hispano-Danish romance set in and in the hills above the resort city of Málaga on Spain’s celebrated Costa del Sol. Rigidly formulaic and strictly low-heat as far as romances go, I’m guessing you can guess every turn … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Don Johnson REALLY wants what’s in storage “Unit 234”

It’s got a “name” or used to be “name” cast, a compact setting, a twisty plot and the director of “Sweet Home Alabama” behind the camera. “Unit 234” has the makings of a gritty B-movie that makes the most of … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Our End Times Savior Might be Tom Cruise? “Digger”

Well, he saved the cinema, almost single-handedly, after the first COVID wave passed. Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Emma D’Arcy and Aoife Hinds, daughter of Ciaran Hinds, also star in this Alejandro G. Iñárritu thriller. “28 Years Later” meets “Tropic Thunder: … Continue reading

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Documentary Review: An Environmental/Farm Economy Parable from Macedonia — “The Tale of Silyan”

An ancient parable is remembered and acted-out in modern day Macedonia in “The Tale of Silyan,” the latest documentary from the director of the Oscar-nominated “Honeyland.” Writer-director Tamara Kotesvka documents the collapse of her country’s small farm economy and sees … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: A South Asian “Hamlet” set in Modern London

Riz Ahmed stars in this new re-imagining of “Hamlet,” with royal Danish intrigues replaced by South Asian familial strife. We’ve had mob “Macbeths” and Samurai “Lears” and Sydney Sweeney/Glen Powell “Much Ados.” “Tempest” has journeyed to “Forbidden Planet,” and on … Continue reading

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Movie Review: What Makes “Marty Supreme?”

New York filmmaker Josh Safdie has his fans, and I’ve been one of them at times. At other times? Not so much. He does underbelly-of-the-city stories well. “Good Time” was something of a reinvention of the possibilities of Robert Pattinson. … Continue reading

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BOX OFFICE: It’s still “Avatar’s” world, “Marty” makes Bank, “Anaconda” strikes and “Song Sung Blue” struggles

A $64 million post-Christmas, final-weekend of the year take certifies James Cameron’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash” as the final blockbuster of 2025, as it hurtles past the $200 million mark — $214 million taken in by midnight Sunday, reports TheNumbers.com. … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “Song Sung Blue” Weepin’ in My Popcorn

Sing-along songs are musical comfort food, and any songsmith, singer or singer-songwriter can count him or herself lucky if they stumble into one in the course of a career. Musical biographies are the cinema’s equivalent of such comfort food, and … Continue reading

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