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Movie Critic, formerly with McClatchy-Tribune News Service, Orlando Sentinel, published in Spin Magazine, The World and now published here, Orlando Magazine, Autoweek Magazine

Netflixable? “Holy Goalie” gives the Beautiful Game a Catholic comic beatdown

The sports comedy formula doesn’t require that the movie come from Hollywood or be about baseball, football or hoops. All that’s necessary is a gang of plucky underdogs who somehow make it to “the Big Game.” “Holy Goalie” (“Que Baje Dios … Continue reading →

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Preview, a pre-Preview of “Ant-Man and The Wasp”

Cute.

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Netflixable? “The Rachel Divide” examines the identity politics of a racially complex and divisive figure

Rachel Dolezal is the white woman outed for pretending to be black, serving as president of the Spokane NAACP, an activist leading protests against shootings in the run up to the Black Lives Matter movement. That’s the narrative we were … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Film buffs, if you missed “Birth of a Movement” on PBS, here’s another chance

Even today, over 100 years after its release, you can’t call yourself a film buff if you haven’t seen “The Birth of a Nation.” Yes, it is overtly racist with scenes to make all but the most virulent white supremacist … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “Amateur” scrubs the sheen off High School Hoops “Superteams”

You can eat the sausage, but who really wants to see how it’s made? The state of high school hoops in America — blue chip prospects ID’d as tweens, recruited to “high school” superteams that aren’t high schools at all, … Continue reading →

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Preview, “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” at last

Virtually every time I have interviewed Terry Gilliam, the conversation turns to “the unluckiest filmmaker in the movies.” Take all of Orson Welles’ problems finding financing, twist them into constant studio interference leading to “The only movies I can make … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “The Misandrists” looks for laughs among lesbian leftists in Deutschland

Gott in himmel, vas ist los? A gay German “Beguiled” spoof built on comically over-the-top womynist/leftist revolutionary rhetoric? Oh, it’s from Bruce LaBruce, Ontario’s boundary-bending icon of the queer cinema. He’s made movies about a young into MUCH older men … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Infinity War” has the opening weekend record…maybe

I mean, “actuals” come in tomorrow, and although it does appear “Avengers: Infinity War” was cleared the $248 million or so “The Force Awakens” erupted with, the estimates could be a couple of million off. But right now, $250 million … Continue reading →

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Preview, Grisly, meat-grinding horror awaits on “The Farm”

A PETA approved horror film? Just kidding. I kid. I mean, meat-eating tourists stop at the wrong diner, order the wrong meal, and next thing you know, THEY’RE on the menu. Hans Stjernswärd directed this one. Not sure of release status … Continue reading →

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Preview, Humans go digging for mineral riches…in space, in “Prospect”

It’s the one thing scientists and space entrepreneurs can agree on. That the commercial push into space could very easily be driven by the hunt for resources we use up on Earth. With the Chinese buying mineral mines of every … Continue reading →

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