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Documentary Review — An Animator Tilting at Disney, “Don Bluth: Somewhere Out There”
As a critic and film journalist, you couldn’t help but feel sorry for Don Bluth. He was a young animator who’d left his dream job when he realized Disney Feature Animation had lost the plot, risking everything for an early … Continue reading
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-Classic Film Review: Apted makes Keach British, “The Squeeze” (1977)
The passing this week of the wonderful character actor and roughhewn leading man Stacy Keach filled the Internet with tributes and appreciations. Film buffs far and wide, myself included, sang his praises for the classics on his resume — “Fat … Continue reading
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The Long Ride of Stacy Keach –1941-2026
The first time I read the name “Stacy Keach” was in the first issue of “American Film” magazine, which I started subscribing to in college. Keach had done films and TV, and I think “The Long Riders” was just about … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Jimmy” Stewart survives The World War that Remade Him as an Actor
Filmgoers of a certain age are honor bound to tear-up more than once watching “Jimmy,” the earnest, sentimental and nostalgic new movie about Jimmy Stewart. The film almost earns those tears, but to be honest, what we’re responding to is … Continue reading
Netflixable? “Misty Green,” but Still Black in Chris Rock’s Hollywood
A one-time Emmy winning star struggles with personal demons, family matters and career suicide as she searches for her “comeback” in “Misty Green,” a glossy peek at the underbelly of Hollywood. If anybody knows the gossip and dirt and is … Continue reading
Movie Review: Macy, Dorff and Haddish co-star with Jack’s Grandson, “The Deputy”
Duke Nicholson, Jack Nicholson’s grandson, isn’t much of an actor. And “The Deputy,” the seedy, bloody thriller he stars in, never rises out of the B-movie miasma it was born in. But for a bad movie, I have to say … Continue reading
Netflixable? Crooked Cops, Accomplices and Cutesy Screenwriter are on a “Collision Course”
Remember “The ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ Paradox” that was bandied about some years back? It posited that the film was fine, save for the fact that nothing Indiana Jones did truly altered the outcome of the story. I was … Continue reading
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BOX OFFICE: “Godzilla Minus Zero” devours all, including the latest “Cat in the Hat”
The umpteenth version of “Godzilla” shows there’s still teeth in the old Japanese Beast from 20,000 fathoms, as “Godzilla Minus Zero” stomps in with a $31.6 million opening weekend. It’s in Japanese, of course. “Oh no, there goes Tokyo” and … Continue reading
Movie Review: Brother fights Brother, “Drummer Boy” vs. Singing Redcoat, in the American Revolution
The American Revolution marches to new songs in “Drummer Boy,” an ambitious and handsomely mounted musical from the studio that brought us “Sound of Freedom” and “Young Washington.” The Aussie ex-pat filmmaking Smallbone siblings — Joel David and Ben — … Continue reading
Classic Film Review: Beatty the Lady Killer, “All Fall Down” (1962)
World War II inspired Italian cinema to reinvent itself through Neo-Realism. The sharp decline of The British Empire after the war caused playwrights and filmmakers to plunge into “Kitchen Sink” dramas with working class grit and adult themes. The French … Continue reading
