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Netflixable? Boy Band Pretty or “Faceless (Shoutai)” he’s too cute to be a mass murderer!
“Faceless” is “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang” or just “The Fugitive” for Japan’s current “Seijin no Hi” generation. The conceit is so clever that the clock is probably already ticking on a Hollywood version of this. A … Continue reading
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Tagged handsome-young-actor, japan, japanese-boy-band, japanese-melodrama, movie-review, netflix, review
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Movie Review: The terror and heartbreak of life under a dictatorship — the Oscar-contending “I’m Still Here”
A mother and father contemplate sending their oldest daughter to London to study. It’s 1970 and the family lives in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil has been under a military dictatorship for years. the daughter is college age, rebellious, and the … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Thirty scintillating seconds of Pitt, Bardem and Condon — “F1”
June 25.
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Movie Preview: Bowen Yang & Co. remake “The Wedding Banquet”
Asian Americans gays cook up work arounds for their “traditional” relatives who don’t understand their sexuality, going so far as to fake relationships and a marriage. Ang Lee’s “The Wedding Banquet” rode the crest of a wave of what we’d … Continue reading
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Let’s skip “The Big Game” and Get the “Led” Out — “Becoming Led Zeppelin” doc time
In IMAX, metalheads! Super Bowl Shmoopper Bowl. What’s the over/under on concussions and CTE risk? “Been a long lonely lonely lonely time” I say. (Updated, my review is here.)
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Movie Preview: Amanda Seyfried in Atom Egoyan’s “Seven Veils”
It’s good to see one of Canada’s last auteurs still taking his shots, and Seyfried getting another shot at challenging material. Can’t remember the last Egoyan film that I thought worked, and this one wound up with Distributor of Last … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Jonathan Majors has “Magazine Dreams”
An obsessed body builder will do most anything to his physique to become famous, a winner on the cover of magazines. Majors lays it all out there in what could be his comeback from de facto banishment/cancellation based on legal … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Dutch Marines spring into action when “Invasion!” comes to The ABC Islands
A drowning marine being slapped awake — while 25 or so feet UNDER water — may be the silliest event I’ve ever seen portrayed in a combat film. That’s not enough to ruin the compact Dutch thriller “Invasion!” But it … Continue reading
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