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Netflixable? A Transgender Telenovela with Tunes — “Emilia Pérez”
“Emilia Pérez” is bold and daring musical treatment of subjects most often covered in telenovelas — Mexican soap operas — and in crime series such as “Queen of the South.” It’s about a Mexican cartel boss who decides to change … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Another live action remake nobody asked for…save for the accountants — “How to Train your Dragon”
And you thought “Red One” was ill advised.
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Movie Review: Britain’s “Best International Feature” Oscar hope is an Indian Police Procedural — “Santosh”
American TV has pretty much beaten to death the police procedural drama thanks to overexposure to the infallible, unimpeachable justice system fantasies of Dick Wolf, the self-righteous heroes of “Blue Bloods” and and the scientist sleuths of “C.S.I.” That’s why … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Oscar contender “Under the Volcano” lets Ukrainians vacation until Russia Invades
The Biden administration had been warning for months that Russia was preparing to invade Ukraine. But when it finally happened, Ukrainians, right up to the country’s president, were shocked. Even some of those accepting that it might happen carried on … Continue reading
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Tagged europe, invasion-of-ukraine, oscar-contender, polish-film, travel-tips, vacation
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Movie Preview: Seth Rogen runs “The Studio,” but Hollywood beats him down
Real Hollywood folk (Scorsese) mingle with Bryan Cranston, Rogen, Kathryn Hahn and Catherine O’Hara in this send up of the cinema as it exists today. March 26, Apple TV.
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Movie Review: Coming of Age, “What We Find on the Road”
“What We Find on the Road” is a dramatically dull indie roadtrip dramedy that reaches for “coming of age” and strains itself getting there. The film begins with mystery and promise, drifts into predictable and undramatic and doesn’t really rally … Continue reading
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Tagged cape-cod, dodge-polara, grand-canyon, katherine-laheen, movie-review, movies, travel
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Classic Film Review: Lemmon and Allyson remake “It Happened One Night” — as a musical — “You Can’t Run Away from It” (1956)
“You Can’t Run Away from It” is a comic curiosity from the early career of Jack Lemmon, a musical filmed when studios were scrambling to lure filmgoers away from TV and when musicals were so overexposed — “The King and … Continue reading
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Tagged comedy, film-review, jack-lemmon, june-allyson, movie-musicals, movies
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Movie Review: A Brave anti-fascist theologian is clumsily remembered in “Bonhoeffer”
I highly recommend you pay a quick visit to the Wikipedia page dedicated to German theologian and resistance martyr Dietrch Bonhoeffer before taking on writer-director Todd Komarnicki’s film “Bonhoeffer.” Otherwise, you might be as lost as I was thanks to … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: The Perfect title for a Horror Film? “The Man in the White Van”
Dec. 13, we figure out if this title tells us everything that we need to know about this one.
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Netflixable? “Hot Frosty” serves up a Snowman Who’s “Cut”
When it comes to holiday films, American tastes long ago moved into HallmarkLand. Christmas princes, princesses, holiday get-aways that turn into second chance romances, holiday movies these days are all about Dolly Parton, Nicolas Sparks and sentiments — and plots … Continue reading
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