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Movie Review: Jake J. and Steenbergen master Pickleball – “The Dink”
“The Dink” is Jake Johnson’s tamest comedy since “Let’s Be Cops.” And even though he’s done the network sitcom thing (“The New Girl”), I’ve got to say it doesn’t really suit him. “Dink” is a not-quite-rom-com about finally giving up … Continue reading
Netflixable? Kevin Hart’s got “72 Hours” to Stay Relevent
In his latest comedy, Kevin Hart plays an over-40 ad/marketing man who joins four Gen Z bros for a Miami bachelor party/bacchanal in order to touch base with “the youth market” and stay relevent in his business. So “72 Hours” … Continue reading
Movie Review: Vice, Violence and Algerian French Underworld Laughs come from “A Family of Bastards”
Humor is subjective, the epitome of “to each his/her own” in terms of taste. But I can’t recall a recent caper comedy that’s made me laugh as hard as “A Family of Bastards.” The setting is Paris, characters are Algerian … Continue reading
Movie Review — “Hadestown: The Musical”
The Tony Award-winning musical “Hadestown” comes to the big screen as “Hadestown: The Musical,” a filmed version of the show, earns a one week theatrical run. It’s a kind of whitebread New Orleans juke joint musical, a 1930-set retelling of … Continue reading
Movie Review: Crossing the Wrong Vet leads to “Motor City” Mayhem
As gimmicks go, cranking out a formulaic ’70s thriller with no dialogue, with set-piece scenes cut to songs from the era by David Bowie, Donna Summer, The Moody Blues, Bill Withers, Sniff-n Tears and Fleetwood Mac works for me. Potsy … Continue reading
Classic Film Review: Class, Soccer, Second Chance Love and Addiction — Ken Loach’s “My Name is Joe” (1998)
Ken Loach is a filmmaker renowned for the working class naturalism of his films, for making sweeping dramas and intimate melodramas with political, economic and social justice (or injustice) subtexts. “My Name is Joe” (1998) is one of the more … Continue reading
BOX OFFICE: “Odyssey” Sails on, “Hadestown” Cracks the Top Five
The second weekend of Christopher Nolan’s latest epic and latest blockbuster “The Odyssey” earned $87 million at the North American box office. As it opened at $123.5 million last weekend, that’s a stunningly small 30% from its big fat take … Continue reading
Netflixable? Idealistic Youth Go Where Governments Won’t, Saving “23,000 Lives”
A story suffused with the idealism of youth, “23,000 Lives” is about young people acting on their best impulses to help during a crisis that governments — fretting over public opinion — were trying to keep at arm’s length. It’s … Continue reading
Movie Review Review: “Son of Sara,” a gorier “Rosemary’s Baby”
The Canadian indie thriller “Son of Sara” is the goriest “Rosemary’s Baby” homages to come along in years. Childbirth at its most bloody, a graphic throat-slitting opening scene determined to make us watch somebody bleed out in real-time, a Lin … Continue reading
Movie Review: “Everyone Calls Me Mike” wants to join your Gulf of Aden Sailing Passage
We all use cinematic shorthand when describing a new movie to friends or review readers. It’s not unreasonable to expect a certain cinema literacy among fellow movie lovers. So pitching the French sailing thriller “Tout le monde m’appelle Mike” — … Continue reading
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