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Monthly Archives: August 2026
Documentary Review: A Classic Film, Controversy, and Wounded Turkish Pride — “Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey”
There was a time when movies could create an international furor that could last for years — decades, even. If you think North Korea’s war on Sony over “The Interview,” racist YA sci-fi fans fuming over the fact that Black … Continue reading
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Tagged film, islamic-homophobia, israel, midnight-express, movies, Reviews, turkey
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Netflixable? DeNiro, Monaghan and Scott need answers from “The Whisper Man”
Crackling performances and a twisty plot that mixes melodrama with suspense recommend “The Whisper Man,” a new thriller based on an Alex North novel. It’s “Silence of the Lambs” paying homage to “The Slender Man,” a tale of fathers and … Continue reading
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Tagged books, film, movies, Reviews, writing
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BOX OFFICE: “Coyote vs. Acme” bests “Dog Stars,” “Insidious” slides behind “Odyssey,” “Spider-Man” takes another Weekend
I’m standing at the cineplex Thursday night pondering, “Do I duck into ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ after catching “The Dog Stars,” or do I just wait until those “Idiots” Dave Franco and O’Shea Jackson, Jr. show up? Silly me. While we … Continue reading
Movie Review: “Tony” Bourdain Comes of Age in a Kitchen Bildunsroman
Anybody who’s ever done restaurant work knows that you grow up fast in a kitchen. The speed and urgency, the pressure cooker of it all — people thrown together in hot, confined spaces, trying to work in concert with each … Continue reading
Movie Review: A Buddy Comedy with “Idiots”
“Idiots” is a buddy comedy with raunchy promise, funny players and no pace. I mean NONE. If this was “Midnight Run,” which it resembles, it’d be “Midnight Stroll.” If it was “The Last Detail,” which also figures in its plotting, … Continue reading
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Tagged dave-franco, film, idiots, movie-reviews, movies, oshea-jackson, peter-dinklage
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Movie Review: Ridley’s Believe in it, or Don’t — “The Dog Stars”
“The Dog Stars” is the sort of movie that late August is infamous for — a dog that the studio couldn’t figure out how to fix or market into a success, so they dumped it on Labor Day Weekend. It’s … Continue reading
Classic Film Review: A Catfight for the (Middle) Ages — “The Lion in Winter” (1968)
It was a gilded age for high-minded British cinema, of larger than life actors taking on epics as heroes and antiheroes — a life of “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Becket,” “Cromwell,” a dash or two of Shakespeare, and “A Man for … Continue reading
Movie Review: Teresa Palmer obsessively Counts Everything — “Addition”
Movies built around mental maladies have a couple of consistent shortcomings, both of which the Teresa Palmer OCD dramedy “Addition” struggles with, start to finish. There’s a tendency to treat something serious as cute and quirky. Obsessively counting everything from … Continue reading
Netflixable? “Freefall — A Reckoning for Boeing” celebrates Heroes and Names Villains
The new Netflix documentary, “Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing,” is another “Boeing: What Went Wrong/Downfall of Boeing” expose. But this one celebrates the whistleblowers within the airliner manufacturer who sounded the alarm and often paid a price for it as … Continue reading
Movie Review: Statham at Sea means “Mutiny”
When Jason Statham growls, “Trust me, I’m coming back for everybody,” what self-respecting hostage wouldn’t consider themselves as good as rescued? J.Sta’s latest, “Mutiny,” is a “Die Hard” at sea that, thank to “Mesrine” director Jean-François Richet, uses that laybrinthine … Continue reading
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