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Movie Preview: Alicia Vikander is a lesser-known wife of Henry VIII (Jude Law) — “Firebrand”
Vikander plays the last and perhaps toughest of the Six Wives of Henry XIII, Kateryn (Catherine) Parr, the one who tempted fate and stood up to the murderous monarch and lived to tell the tale. This summer release is from … Continue reading
Movie Preview: Mel Gibson works again, as does 50 Cent, in the “Boneyard”
Brian Van Holt also stars in this serial killer thriller. The serial killer might be a “cop?” “The Bone Collector,” they call the man they’re hunting. Gibson plays an FBI Agent/profiler, Curtis Jackson a police chief. This Lionsgate release drops … Continue reading
Movie Preview: A problem child, a problematic tuned-out Dad, connected by “Ghostlight” and the Theatre
Theater actor Keith Kupferer and daughter Katherine Mallen Kupferer star in this dramedy about how it takes to create a problem child, and how acting can connect even people who have trouble remembering their lines to their feelings. June 14, … Continue reading
Roger Corman, 1926-2024 — A film life worth Celebrating
Maverick movie maker, indie icon, “Pope of Pop Cinema,” sponsor of the careers of the great and near great, Roger Corman made a singular mark on the movies over a career that spanned half a century. Directors Demme and Coppola … Continue reading
Classic Film Review: Nicholson, Dern and Burstyn poke at the corpse of Atlantic City — “The King of Marvin Gardens” (1972)
Long before its gambling revival and later slow return to decay, long before Louis Malle’s 1980 drama “Atlantic City,” the historic but forlorn resort city had been emblematic of American ennui, a place of elegaic, baroque nostalgia and decline. The … Continue reading
Netflixable? “The Courier” Glibly Skips by a Scandal for a tale of High End Spanish Money-Laundering
Slick, sex-uped and maddeningly-shallow, “The Courier” is another variation on the “get rich quick via money-laundering” formula based on real events that roiled Europe and Spain in the early 2000s. We learn precious little about the backers, reasons (real estate … Continue reading
BOX OFFICE: “Apes” Rule, “Fall Guy” falls off, “Challengers” hang around
The lesson for Universal Studios could not be more stark. Twentieth Century (Disney) makes bank, yet again, with the middling, pointless and CGI-dominated tenth movie in the ever-rebooted/even-became-a-TV-series “Planet of the Apes” franchise. While “The Fall Guy,” a funny, well-cast … Continue reading
Classic Film Review: British Marriages Never Looked the Same after “A Kind of Loving” (1962)
One of the hallmarks of a classic film is the way it impacted the cinema of its day and all the movies on its subject that followed. “Citizen Kane” changed the movies. “Stagecoach” became the benchmark of Westerns. And marriage, … Continue reading
Movie Preview: June Squibb is elderly, armed and dangerous — “Thelma”
This comic thriller about a gullible little old lady who gets mixed up in things way beyond her experience of the world co-stars Richard Roundtree, Parker Posey, Clark Gregg and Fred Hechinger and opens June 21.
Movie Review: Tarantino Town, “The Last Stop in Yuma County”
It is one of the hoariest conventions in screen thrillers. Round up a bunch of people, some of them armed and dangerous. Park them in a roadside diner, and see what happens. The classic “The Petrified Forest,” based on a … Continue reading