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Movie Review: “Song Sung Blue” Weepin’ in My Popcorn
Sing-along songs are musical comfort food, and any songsmith, singer or singer-songwriter can count him or herself lucky if they stumble into one in the course of a career. Musical biographies are the cinema’s equivalent of such comfort food, and … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Black and Rudd & Co. Learn You Can’t Go “Anaconda” Again
Three movie stars who have been funny in their pre-dad-bod past and Thandiwe Newton — who’s rarely been called to land laughs — shipped off to Australia to make an action comedy about a supersized snake in the Amazon, a … Continue reading
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STILL not “a Christmas Movie”
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Classic Film Review: Carol Reed’s Mining Country Melodrama — “The Stars Look Down” (1940)
A young man’s future is derailed by a callous chancer and a faithless woman and a disaster he foretold and might have prevented is sure to doom many in his small Northumberland mining town in “The Stars Look Down,” the … Continue reading
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Yeah, Merry Friggin’ Christmas…
Love to get out and see “Song Sung Blue,” “The Secret Agent” and maybe “Marty Supreme.” Events mahy conspire to delay this binge, but you’ve gotta have goals.
Netflixable? A Cop and his Shrink learn there’s “A Time for Bravery”
A distraught, unstable, rules-breaking “maverick” cop is assigned a new partner to keep his demons at bay? ” I feel like I’m in ‘Lethal Weapon,’” the new partner cracks. “I know, right?” As action comedies go, the Mexican riff on … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Kirby Howell-Baptiste is our Tour Guide among “We Strangers”
A hint of the inscrutable can do service to any film in any genre, and it pays off some surprising ways in “We Strangers,” an oddball domestic dramedy about a “domestic” and the dizzy white folks who hire her. Veteran … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Udo Kier is “My Neighbor Adolf”
As comedies about Hitler, the Holocaust and Nazis hiding out in South America go, “My Neighbor Adolf” is no “Mr. Kaplan.” One of the last films to star the late Udo Kier, it’s a curious, gentle and downbeat tale about … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: “Detour” (1945), still as Noir as Film Noir Gets
“That’s life,” the anti-hero of “Detour” growls in voice-over. “Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.” Hardboiled, archetype-upending and gorgeous in its bare-bones minimalism, “Detour” is quintessential film noir. “The Maltese Falcon” preceded it and … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Koreans face Doomsday — “The Great Flood”
Preppers, survivalists, Rapture fans and doomsday cultists may get a kick out of “The Great Flood,” a downbeat-to-the-point-of-bleak thriller about the End of Human Civilization. A young Korean mother (Kim Da-Mi) carries her six year-old (Kwon Eun-sung) up several flights … Continue reading
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