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Monthly Archives: July 2026
Classic Film Review: A Brit DJ with a Dead Brother hears the Birth of New Wave — Turn Your “Radio On”
“Radio On” is an archetypal ’60s “art film” mystery drama released on the cusp of the New Wave ’80s. The tone is downbeat, the story and performances are minimalist and the narrative is literally driven by a 1960 Rover 80 … Continue reading
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Tagged art-cinema, british-film, film, movies, new-wave, radio-djs, sting, thatcher-britain, writing
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Is Youtube Environmentalist “Dr. Edmund Hale” an AI Phony?
Have you seen the scores of Youtube “documentaries” featuring on camera narration by this Aussie looking (Outback wear) and sounding bloke who speaks with the authority of Morgan Freeman and tells tales of environmental/ecological challenges and how they’ve been met … Continue reading
Series Review: Anya Taylor-Joy is…”Lucky?”
Anya Taylor-Joy spends most of her new series “Lucky” captured in lusty, loving close-ups. Attired, dyed, made-up, eyebrowed and false eyelashed to something akin to feminine perfection, we are left with no doubts as to where her series creator (Jonathan … Continue reading
BOX OFFICE: “Odyssey” makes money like it’s 2001 — A Boffo Thurs., Fri. and Sat. $124.5 million Opening
IMAX showings are selling out. Ticket buyers started showing up early Thursday afternoon (when I caught it) and kept lining up until midnight. “The Odyssey” scored the year’s best Thursday night “preview” take, Deadline.com reported.. Some $17.6 million (mostly premium … Continue reading
Movie Review: “The Odyssey” by Nolan
Sail we must, on Homer’s “wine dark sea” from Ithaca to Asia Minor and many points in between for the greatest story of them all, the tale of “a face, a fleet…of a war with Troy, of a man and … Continue reading
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Tagged christopher-nolan, homer, matt-damon, movies, the-odyssey
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Netflixable? “53 Sundays” only seems to Last that Long
The prolific Barcelona screenwriter and director Cesc Gay gave us the man and his dog dramedy “Truman,” and the edgier “The People Upstairs,” aka “Sentimental,” just remade by Olivia Wilde as “The Invite.” So when you see his name on … Continue reading
Movie Review: An “Honor Student” weighs in on America’s Gun Fetish
For a preachy, unevenly-acted thriller about the threat of a school shooting, the indie “Honor Student” certainly punches above its weight. Director and co-writer Tamika Miller gets into the messy politics of gun control, references earlier school massacres, from Columbine … Continue reading
Netflixable? Swedish Midlife Crisis? “Je M’appelle Agneta”
It may be a cliche, but there are few more “liberating” images in the cinema than having your heroine toss aside convention and decorum and dunk her head in the public village fountain in some eternally sunny corner of Provence. … Continue reading
Movie Preview: Tom Cruise is the pot-bellied Oil Man ordered to Save the World he’s Destroyed — “Digger”
That cast. That director. That gut! This October, we’ve got ourselves a Hail Mary for an Oscar nomination for the movies’ Most Valuable Player.
Netflixable? Don’t Underestimate “The Marked Woman” Trafficked into Barcelona
A grab bag of thriller tropes and action beats is tossed at another “human trafficking” thriller, this one from Spain, in “The Marked Woman.” We’ve got an amnesiac with Jason Bourne skills. Because one never forgets one’s martial arts training. … Continue reading
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