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Movie Preview: Gael Garcia Bernal, “Magellan”
This Lav Diaz film is the Philippines’ entry on the Best International Feature Oscar race. Epic, but hardly old fashioned, on the way it treats the “cost” of “discovery” and conquest
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Movie Preview: An action pic about Mercenaries in Africa that’s titled “Lost Horizon?”
Mercenaries trying to carry out a rescue of some sort in the middle of an African civil war. Sounds a lot like a Christopher Walken outing from the ’80s, “Dogs of War.” The title “Lost Horizon” has been emblazened on … Continue reading
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Netflixable? A Life Lived with Loss and a Search for meaning — “Train Dreams”
“Train Dreams” is a forlorn folk ballad with pretensions of being a tone poem. This downboat but picturesque saga of one man’s life during the lumbering-mad early years of the 20th century is both intimate and remote. We see a … Continue reading
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Movie Review: An Actor finds the Meaning of His Calling working as “Rental Family”
Just when you think Japanese culture could not seem more strange and exotic, along comes another movie reminder that the “problems” have a different gravitas over there, and the solutions to them can be downright ingenius. Little shrines decorate the … Continue reading
Movie Review — “Wicked: For Good” does Dorothy Wrong
I said at the start that turning “Wicked” the musical into a two-part big screen epic was a mistake. Just how big a mistake is obvious as this bloated beast staggers to the end of the Yellow Brick Road in … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Sisu: Road to Revenge” takes a Wrong Turn or Three
I am an audience of one at a late afternoon “preview” matinee of “Sisu 2,” aka “Sisu: Road to Revenge,” the sequel to the savage sleeper hit by Finnish carnage Jalmari Helander. Do the locals know something I don’t? Or … Continue reading
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Movie Marathon Thursday, “Wicked for Good,” “Rental Family” and “Sisu 2: Finno-Russian Boogaloo”
Erivo, Arianna and Goldblum again, Brendan F speaking Japanese and Stephen Lang as a Russian trying to kill an unkillable Finn. Again. A few more songs, some curious corners of Japanese culture and dead Russians by the dozen. A pretty … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A New Yorker widowed by a Police Shooting seeks Justice in “Aftershock: The Nicole P. Bell Story”
An infamous police shooting leads to trials and a search for justice that doesn’t end in a courtroom in “Aftershock” The Nicole P. Bell Story.” It’s a sturdy, often moving fil built aroud Rayven Symone Ferrell’s affecting performance in the … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Of Course Kevin James stars in the “Playdate” from Hell
The most violent children’s entertainment since “The Silence of the Lambs” stars Kevin James, features Isla Fisher as leader of a hard-drinking “gang” of soccer moms and gives the inventive character player Alan Tudyck his best shot at impersonating and … Continue reading
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Documentary Review: Australia’s Oscar hopes rely on Mongolians who know “The Wolves Always Come at Night”
“The Wolves Always Come at Night” is an evocative immersion in a dying way of life, that of nomadic Mongolian goat, horse and cattle herders. Gabrielle Brady’s documentary captures the stark beauty of the treeless brownscape of the Mongolian steppes, … Continue reading
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