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Monthly Archives: April 2026
BOX OFFICE: “Michael” opens huge, to Trump’s Relief
Deadline.com is calling it a $95 million weekend for Antoine Fuqua’s much hyped Michael Jackson bio pic, “Michael.” Wow. I guess pedophlia’s journey to “normalized.” Trump must be relieved. The film’s opening big worldwide — over $200 million, proving Michael … Continue reading
Movie Review: Make “Animal Farm” Great Again?
George Orwell’s parable of totalitarianism earns a Trump era updating in a new animated “Animal Farm,” this one backed by Angel Studios and not the CIA. Actor turned “Venom” sequel director and the one-and-only “Gollum” in J.R.R. Tolkienland Andy Serkis … Continue reading
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Netflixable? June Squibb is “Eleanor the Great”
Timing, especially in comedy, is everything. But Sony Pictures Classics had no way of knowing that its Oscar-campaigned Jewish Holocaust dramedy “Eleanor the Great” would come out in the middle of worldwide outrage at an ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. … Continue reading
Movie Review: “Deported” should have been Stopped at the Border
There’s something almost criminal about Amazon acquiring the 2020 immigration “comedy” “Deported,” and passing it off as a “new” “2026” release on their streaming service. There hasn’t been a good time to unleash a raunchy, tone deaf and whitewashed farce … Continue reading
Movie Review: Tipsy Italians talk a lad into “The Last One for the Road”
“The Last One for the Road” is a seemingly aimless drunken drive through northern Italy, a picaresque misadventure in a minor key about a Neopolitan kid, fresh out of college, being taught “the meaning of life.” Francesco Sossai’s curious gambole … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, alcoholism, europe, italian-cinema, marginal-utility, travel
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Netflixable? Coogan and Bird Charm their Way through a Class on Fascism — “The Penguin Lessons”
No English speaking actor in film is better at making caddish and insufferably self-absorbed charming than Steve Coogan. That proves to be a saving grace of “The Penguin Lessons,” a sweet saunter through a true story of a rescued bird … Continue reading
Netflixable? Bacon and Sedgwick remind us to do “The Best You Can”
Any team-up of one of the cinema’s most enduring off-camera couples, Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon, should be cherished. They’re both so very good and “natural” doesn’t begin to describe their onscreen chemistry together. They’re as close as Hollywood gets … Continue reading
Movie Review: Wahlberg and Hauser go “Balls Up” in Brazil
The latest Peter Farrelly of The Farrelly Bros. comedy is a tale of condoms, testicular protection, the South American cocaine trade, the World Cup and two doofuses who find one “fine mess” after another to get themselves into. “Balls Up” … Continue reading
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Documentary Review: Fallopian Furies Fondly Remembered — “Pretty Ugly: The Story of the Lunachicks”
A fun and furious phenomenon of the ’90s New York punk scene is given its due and another faint glimpse of the spotlight in “Pretty Ugly: The Story of the Lunachicks,” a wry, wizened and not remotely bitter doc about … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Mayhem and Murder and the Japanese Mafia Greet Odenkirk in “Normal,” Minnesota
What a time to be alive and a witness to Bob Odenkirk, the Badass Years. The “Mr. Show” alumnus and ex-“Saturday Night Live” writer, a bit player on every sitcom from “Seinfeld” to “How I Met Your Mother” tapped into … Continue reading
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