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Movie Review: Young Germans use “Free Will” to see the line between “Truth & Treason”
It’s often not the strongest, the toughest or wisest among us who have the courage and common sense to know the difference between right and wrong, who have the guts to do something about injustice when the unjust have brainwashed … Continue reading
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Tagged angel-studios, books, faith-based-film-review, fascism, film, german-martryr, movies
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Documentary Review — “John Candy: I Like Me”
Friends, acquaintances and fans still get choked up when the subject of the late Canadian comic wonder John Candy comes up. I’d be talking to Richard Lewis or Ron Howard or Hanks or somebody who worked with Candy and out … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Who’s a Good (Brazilian) Boy? “Caramelo”
“Caramelo” is a boy-and-his-dog-tale that’s as adorable as it is sentimental and predictable. Writer-direector Diego Freitas serves up a near perfectly executed São Paulo story of a mischievous stray, a young chef and the ways they connect when one of … Continue reading
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Tagged brazilian-food, dog-movie, feel-good-film, film, movie-review, movies, netflix-comedy, sao-paolo
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Movie Preview: J. Lawrence, R. Patts, S. Spacek, L. Stanfield and N. Nolte — “My Love”
Love and madness and violence and an all-star cast and director Lynne Ramsey (“We Need to Talk About Kevin”) decamped to Montana for this thriller. It’s based on an Ariana Harwicz novel. Mubi has “Die My Love, so it’s kind … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Kevin James strikes again! “Playdate”
Alan Ritchson’s the dad out-of-work Kevin James should never set up a you-know-what date with. Sarah Chalke, Alan Tudyk, Isla Fisher and Stephen Root star in this No. 12 comedy coming to Amazon Prime. The director of “Let’s Be Cops” … Continue reading
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Movie Review: New York “Neighbors” and Theatre “Types” collide in “The French Italian”
“The French Italian” is a dizzy comedy that loses its fizz when it wears out the possibilties of its original premise, but gets some of it back by finding a few other screwy directions to take us. Writer-director Rachel Wolther’s … Continue reading
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Tagged food, gen-x, gen-z, movies, new-york, rent-control, saturday-night-live
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Movie Preview: The Fascist Wet Dream that is “King Ivory”
Masked and murderous commando cops fight drugs and drug lords in the hellhole of Tulsa. Wonder why the National Guard hasn’t been called into Oklahoma? James Badge Dale and Ben Foster star in what turned out to be Graham Greene’s … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Faithful to the End, and Beyond — Who’s a “Good Boy?”
“Good Boy” is elemental horror — a tale of a sick man under natural and supernatural assault — and his dog. And the marvel of this movie is the performance by that real live dog. Director Ben Leonberg picked up … Continue reading
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The last time I ever get on a horse
Robert Duvall talked about having to give up horseback riding the last time I interviewed him, and even in his 70s, he was taking it hard. He’d made his working life provide him with lots of peak career Westerns, and … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “One Big Happy Family?” Oy!
Linda Lavin makes her last curtain call as graceful as the material will allow in “One Big Happy Family,” her final film before dying last December. It’s a generally mirthless comedy that strains for laughs as it struggles to graft … Continue reading
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