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The first wide release kiddie cartoob of the fall? It’s my Saturday outing. “Abominable” opens Sept. 27. Advertisements

For several years, just outside of Monroe, Georgia at a bridge on Moore’s Ford Road, they’ve been reenacting a horrific moment from the area’s past. On the anniversary of a 1946 lynching, black actors playing the four victims (one a … Continue reading →

As I said Thursday, pre-sales of “Downton Abbey” opening weekend tickets suggested a much MUCH bigger opening than the West Coast experts, working off market research provided by the studio and their own hunches, were saying. Variety, Deadline and Box … Continue reading →

Judas Priest, what CENTURY was “Golden Boy” filmed in? I don’t have to ask when it was conceived, as that is obvious and the answer is “In Ancient Times.” This injuriously eye-rolling gay coming-of-age melodrama harks back to the early … Continue reading →

Thora Birch (“Ghost World”) and Chris Klein (“American Pie”) are pretty far removed from their ’90s teen cinema heyday. But “The Competition,” a rom-com that pairs them up, has a hint of that era about it, even if it is … Continue reading →

Whatever the title suggests, this is a classic “January thriller.” There’s revenge and conspiracy, stars but not “box office” stars. Mark Wahlberg used to own January with pictures like this, action and violence as counter programming to the “awards season” … Continue reading →

“Good villains make good thrillers,” Hitchcock supposedly declared. And if there is better proof of his thesis in a world where Alan Rickman is no longer with us than “Villains,” I can’t think of it. Jeffrey Donovan of “Burn Notice” … Continue reading →

I had to catch “Rambo: Last Blood” on opening night Thursday night, to a largely empty theater. But just outside the Regal Winter Park 20, long one of the busiest cinemas in the Regal empire, the scene was straight out … Continue reading →

What an odd place Sly Stallone has taken John Rambo in his dotage. In “Rambo: Last Blood,” the traumatized VietNam vet, always reluctant to fight, efficient quasi-psychotic killing machine never daunted by the odds, is a retiring horse farmer on … Continue reading →

Saw this attached to a Neon release last summer. Could not track a copy down to share. Until now. Awards buzz for the Great Alfre Woodard?