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Movie Preview: It’s 1981, so “Casey Makes a Mixtape”
Rush, The Police, Rick Springfield anyone? How can you tell someone you crush on them without a cassette deck? Oct. 14.
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Movie Preview: Cumberbatch is a Dad haunted in his Grief by “The Thing with Feathers”
Briarcliff has this widowed dad psychological thriller based on Max Porter’s novel “Grief is the Thing With Feathers.” David Thewlis is this father’s all-too-real-tohim feathered beast haunting him. This comes out Oct. 24.
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Documentary Review: Paul Reubens bids a bittersweet good-bye — “Pee Wee as Himself”
I once got an angry and wounded piece of hate mail from Judy Rubenfeld, an annoyed Sarasota, Florida retiree who didn’t appreciate my inclusion of her son’s lowest moment — his arrest in a porno theater string in this hometown … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Emily Bader and Tim Blyth are Mismatched Besties on a Holiday — “People You Meet on Vacation”
One’s a homebody, one’s adventure-bound. “Platonic traveling companions” my Aunt. Could be cute. Worth a Netflx peek if nothing else. Jan. 6.
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Netflixable? Phylicia, Seraya and Tyler riff on The Book of Ruth — “Ruth & Boaz”
The Biblical “Book of Ruth” was the inspiration for “Ruth & Boaz,” a modern, semi-faith-based romantic melodrama from the fantasy factory that is Tyler Perry Studios. Ruth isn’t a widow who bonds with her widowed mother in law, meeting the … Continue reading
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Movie Review: McConaughey, Ferrara and Greengrass rally around “The Lost Bus”
Paul Greengrass, one of the last and greatest of the cinema’s action auteurs, stages, shoots and edits the hell out of “The Lost Bus,” turning a conventional enough “true story” of children trapped on a schoolbus in a raging wildfire … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Running on Empty” pretty much sums this Rom Com Up
“Running on Empty” is a dark comedy that tests the comic limits of the infamous “Gen Z stare.” A deadpan rom-com about death, it has reliable comics in supporting roles and co-stars Lucy Hale. And it is stillborn thanks, in … Continue reading
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Series Review: “House of Guinness” is a Pint in a Gilded Gallon-sized Glass
How long does it take you to decide if a streaming series is worth bingeing all the way to the end? One episode? Three? Five? That’s why such series frontload the action, the parade of characters, the colorful settings and … Continue reading
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Documentary Review: “Thank You Very Much” is the Deepest and Most Thorough Andy Kaufman Remembrance of All
There have been scads of TV specials, documentaries and books about comic performance artist, singer and hoaxer Andy Kaufman in the 41 years since his death. I swear I’ve tried to take in one and all, from that sentimental, cute … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A Friendship. An Affair. What’s Missing? “All of You”
Brett Goldstein burns through a little of his “Ted Lasso” capital with “All of You,” a “When Harry Met Sally” platonic-friends-can’t-stay platonic romance co-starring Imogen Poots. The friends “since uni” story, co-written by Goldstein, is at its best when our … Continue reading
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