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Monthly Archives: September 2026
Classic Film Review: “El Cid” (1961 — Still a Stiff?
Yup. That’s the answer to the rhetorical question posed by that bad-pun headline. Honestly, I’ve never understood any of the adoring or merely “tolerant” reviews of “El Cid,” a corpse of a corpse-on-horseback “history.” Charlton Heston, at his Big Man … Continue reading
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Tagged film, horror, movie-review, movies, Reviews
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Movie Review: Falling In and Out of Love, “In Spite of Ourselves”
It’s become a romance/romantic comedy cliche, that eager, disrobing, slam-your-partner-against-the-wall sex after the first date. And if “In Spite of Ourselves” accomplishes nothing else, at least it sticks a skewer in that “let’s get this out of the way” movie … Continue reading
Netflixable? Shailene’s on the hunt for the “Unabomber”
The difference between “a true story” and “inspired by a true story/true events” is laid bare in “Unabomber,” an account of the tail end of the hunt for mad mail bomber Ted Kaczynski. The heroine, played by Shailene Woodley, is … Continue reading
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Tagged drama, movies, netflix, russell-crowe, shailene-woodley
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Documentary Review: Cinema as Seen from the Projection Booth — “Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey”
You probably missed this sprawling, feel-good-about-cinema’s-future Australian documentary “Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey” when it made the rounds of film festivals and earned a limited release a couple of years back. Celluloid purists certainly wouldn’t have. Australian projectionist turned doc-maker … Continue reading
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Tagged cinema, film, horror, movies, the-odyssey
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Movie Preview: The “Musk” documentary “They” don’t want you to see
The oligarchs in charge of Tik Tok, Facebook/Meta, Twitter and Youtube don’t want you to see the movie “Musk.” Hell, the Zuckerberglings don’t even want you to see the TRAILER to this documentary by Oscar winner Alex Gibney, the most … Continue reading
BOX OFFICE: “Avengers,” “Resident Evil,” “Heart of the Beast” and “Primetime” are neck-and-neck over $20 million
Marvel wants to whet the appetites of filmgoers, to not leave less avid Avengers fans in the dark about the convoluted “history” they may have forgotten when “Avengers: Doomsday” lumbers into theaters in December. And they’d love to add a … Continue reading
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Tagged film, marvel, mcu, movies, spider-man
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Movie Review: A Haunted Japanese Inn’s Worth Visiting, just “Never After Dark”
It’s rare that even a casual horror fan doesn’t greet a new Japanese ghost story with the words, “I LIKE IT already!” Even if the film is made by Tuscon-born one-time Mormon missionary (how he got into Asian culture and … Continue reading
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Tagged horror, j-horror, mormon-movie-maker, movies
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Movie Review: Pattinson & Weaver are ready for “Primetime”
“Primetime” is a “heavily fictionalized” account of “Dateline NBC’s” notorious, pedophile-entrapping “To Catch a Predator” series of hidden camera “gotchas” passed off as “reports” in the early 2000s. It’s a film that struggles to condemn and illuminate why TV news … Continue reading
Movie Review: A Brad and his Dog — “Heart of the Beast”
“Heart of the Beast” is a solid, formulaic adventure tale given a lift by leading man Brad Pitt and his connection to the German shepherd his character’s brought to the Alaskan wilderness with him. Uber, who plays Odin the combat … Continue reading
Documentary Review: The Long Struggle to “Free Leonard Peltier”
“Free Leonard Peltier” is about the half-century-long struggle to get Native American activist Leonard Peltier out of prison. Peltier, accused of murdering two F.B.I. agents during the Federal government’s intervention in a Native “civil war” at the Pine Ridge Indian … Continue reading
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Tagged aim, books, fbi-misconduct, history, native-american-rights, racism, writing
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