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Movie Review: A Harrowing Way to Reconnect with Dad — “Whalefall”
“Whalefall” is a sentimental story of fathers and sons and giants of the briny blue sea. When it’s good, it’s “127 Hours” set inside the mouth and throat of a sperm whale, a terrible life test that makes its hero … Continue reading
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Tagged horror, josh-brolin, movies, Reviews, whalefall
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Series Review: Woody and Matthew laugh it up and Get Paid Doing it as “Brothers”
I binged the new comedy series “Brothers” because it pairs up a couple of longtime faves — Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. And while I didn’t instantly regret that, regret did come early — by the second episode. And it … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Operation Kabul” to the Rescue
Well, damn. Who’d have guessed that the best combat thriller about the evacuation and fall of Kabul, Afghanistan would be Hungarian, and about Hungarian NATO troops battling to get Hungarian nationals and embassy staff out of that benighted country? “Operation … Continue reading
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Tagged afghanistan, combat-film, film, movies, nato, review, Reviews
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Netflixable? Polish Rocker Rebels and Resists as “Less of a Stranger”
All the cliches, tropes and tricks of the rock star biopic are trotted out for “Less of a Stranger,” a Polish prance down the primrose path of pop stardom. “Less of a Stranger?” That phrase applies to this Polish production … Continue reading
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Tagged music, polish-history, polish-rock-band, resistance-music, writing
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Documentary Review: The Canadian Who Cooked Up “SNL” — “Lorne”
Lorne Michaels, the inscrutable guru who changed Saturday nights in America by creating “Saturday Night Live” and then presiding over it for almost all of its 51 years, is the “star” and central figure of mystery of “Lorne.” The documentary … Continue reading
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Tagged comedy, film, lorne-michaels, Reviews, sarah-sherman, snl, television, writing
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Netflixable? Can “Animals” Stick the Landing?
Isn’t it about time that America’s film schools added a “How to End Your Movie” course to their curricula? I know that they don’t have such “Finishing” or “Stick the Landing” stand-alone tutorials set up, and not just from covering … Continue reading
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Tagged ben-affleck, film, film-review, gillian-anderson, kerry-washington, movies, netflix, writing
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Movie Review: Remembering “Tenzing” and Hillary and their Ascent of Everest
The viewer keeps waiting for “Tenzing,” the new bio-drama of the life of “the other man” to be the first to summit Mount Everest, to take a false step. But director Jennifer Peedom comes from documentaries and she’s made films … Continue reading
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Tagged dafoe, everest, film, hiddleston, himilayas, jennifer-peedom, mountaineering, movies, tenzing-norgay
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Movie Review: “Don’t Move” or the Creature in the Creature Feature will Get You
“Don’t Move” begins with a tragedy so vivid and horrific it sets us up for a much better thriller than the movie that follows. A competent, can-do mother braves the flames of a seedy amusement park haunted house horror ride … Continue reading
Classic Film Review: Friedkin tries Funny — “The Brinks Job”(1978)
It’s not shocking to realize that William Friedkin, one of the star directors of ’70s filmmaking, took a breather and attempted a caper comedy after the ordeals of “The French Connection” and “Sorcerer,” seeing as how the latter film damn … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A Hole Even “Digger” Cruise Can’t Shovel His Way Out Of
One has to appreciate the huge swing four-time Oscar winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu and his Oscarless star Tom Cruise took with their climate crisis and culture satire “Digger.” But it’s still a swing and an epic miss. The director of … Continue reading
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Tagged digger, john-goodman, movies, tom-cruise, warner-bros
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