Daily Archives: July 13, 2026

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

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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.

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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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Sam Neill, New Zealand’s Finest: 1947-2026

One of the cinema’s great talents, grand figures and a gentleman in full, Sam Neill has died. He’d fought a deadly cancer off, but that battle must have taken a terrible toll to get him to “cancer free.” He was … Continue reading

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