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Documentary Preview: A longer (full trailer) look at “Becoming Led Zeppelin”
It’s been a long lonely lonely lonely time. But that ends this Feb. “Authorized” and sanitized? Sure. Still looks fun.
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Movie Review: Jackie Chan, in the silly present, in the fantastical past “A Legend”
Let the record reflect that Jackie Chan is more limber, nimble and in better faux fighting trim at 70 than you are at 60, 35 or 20, “Boomer,” “Xer,” Millennial or what have you. Hong Kong’s king of martial arts … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Donnie Yen’s a two-fisted cop who kicks more ass as “The Prosecutor”
Love that Donnie Yen. Jan. 10.
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Classic Film Review: Cleese shows us Classic Comedy can be “Clockwise” (1986)
A person hellbent on maintaining his dignity in the face of everything thrown at him to deny it, and failing, is the essence of comedy. So it was with Keaton, and so it is with Cleese. Somebody said that once. … Continue reading
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BOX OFFICE: “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” goes “BOOM,” “Mufasa” is NO “Lion King”
Adding Keanu Reeves to the (voice) cast of the “Sonic the Hedgehog” franchise pays off with a franchise-best opening weekend for “Sonic the Hedgehog 3.” The franchise-best was the first film, which opened at over $72 million. The third fiilm … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Black Women serve in WWII — “The Six Triple Eight”
The only all-Black Women’s Army Corps united to serve in World War II n Europe is fondly remembered in Tyler Perry’s “The Six Triple Eight,” a polished, sentimental and old fashioned picture that points out to the culture at large … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: A romance directed by Julia Stiles — “Wish You Were Here”
Hollywood has had its share of troubles making touching romances in recent years. But if you want somebody who knows the genre and has been in memorable movie romances, you could do a lot worse than giving Julia Stiles (“Ten … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: James Gunn pulls out all the sentimental stops for his “Superman” teaser
Lex and Lois and Clark and a caped critter who barks. Echoes of John Williams, a few names in the cast Brosnahan, Hoult, Gunn’s brother, a mwmber of the Reeve family and Wendell Pierce is “newspaper” editor Perry White. Pushes … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Investigator meets a Murder Suspect and imagines herself “In Her Place (El lugar de la otra)”
The lone woman on a team investigating an instantly-notorious and very public murder finds herself understanding and even envying the murderess in “In Her Place,” a thriller with a message about the lot of women in 1950s South America, and … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Cary Grant Saunters into the Sunset, in his boxers — “Walk Don’t Run” (1966)
There’s an inspired silliness to the Technicolor bon bon “Walk Don’t Run,” the final film in Cary Grant’s legendary Hollywood career. Surely a mere screenwriter — TV veteran (“Bewitched”) Sol Saks in this case — can’t have been the one … Continue reading
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