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Classic Film Review: The Urtext for Thrillers — “The Most Dangerous Game” (1932)
As I looked up the credits of this 1932 film, I stumbled across a 2022 remake I missed starring Casper van Diem and Judd Nelson, among others. That’s hardly a surprise. “The Most Dangerous Game” is the most filmed, referenced, … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Robbers are “Hunted” in this Brit thriller about class, privilege and “the most dangerous game”
As long as there are movies to be made, there’ll be fresh versions of the hoariest thriller plot of all, the one based on a short story with a pun in the title. Man/human beings are “The Most Dangerous Game.” … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Yet another version of “The Most Dangerous Game” — this time in Cambodian — “The Prey”
Aug 21-28 this Jimmy Henderson “Let’s hunt convicts in the jungles of SE Asia” thriller streams.
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Netflixable? A junkie/drunk proves the “Most Dangerous Game” to a town obsessed with “Happy Hunting”
A solitary, bloodied old man, fleeing across the desert flats who suddenly stops, resigned to his fate. A rifle shot, punched through his right eye, finishes him off. “Happy Hunting” is a thriller built around such spare, fraught images, under-played … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: A hunting trip turns deadly, “Wild Game”
This looks like another variation on one of the most remade plots of all time, “The Most Dangerous Game.” It’s not hunting human “game” for sport. But something in that ballpark. “Wild Game” stars Charlie Barnett, Matthew Daddario, Creed Garnick, … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Bros turn “Buddy Games” into comic bloodsport
You can be a fan of Minot, North Dakota’s own Josh Duhamel, and want to see his directing debut. Fond memories of guy’s guy/car-guy funnyman of Dax Shepard? Yup. And Olivia Munn as the gorgeous tough broad in a sea … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Diamonds and cash, a will and a marriage tested by “Dangerous Lies”
“Dangerous Lies” isn’t the dumbest whodunit to come along. There’s enough here to make you guess, second guess and maybe third-guess who is doing what to whom. Maybe the situations seem a little prime-time soapy and the acting a … Continue reading
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Movie Review: The almost poetic tragedy of a “Goalie”
When you start your movie with an autopsy, with the coroner listing the scars he sees covering the professional athlete’s body, you know you’re not watching “Slapshot.” When the first scenes, at home, include neglected, frozen puppies and a brother … Continue reading
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Weekend Movies: Good reviews for “Game Night” and “Annihilation,” but will they declaw “Black Panther?”
The short answer to that headline question is, of course, “No way.” “Black Panther” opened so huge and is doing enough repeat business — patrons coming back to re-immerse themselves in the Wonders of Wakanda — that it should do … Continue reading
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Movie Nation: Veteran players bring their A game to “The Wilde Wedding”
It took filmdom long enough to figure out that re-pairing Glen Close and John Malkovich, made-for-each-other in “Dangerous Liaisons,” was a good idea. But it took just as long to realize that getting Patrick Stewart to grow out his hair … Continue reading
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