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Movie Review: Eddie and Pete and Keke haggle over “The Pickup”
Teaming Eddie Murphy with Pete Davidson for the armored car heist comedy “The Pickup” pays off pretty much exactly as you’d suspect. All that pairing-up two generations of “Saturday Night Live” comics guarantees are, well, “generation” jokes. “Your generation can’t … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Rainn and Lil Rel are paramedics at the breaking point — “Code 3”
Aimee Carrero is the newbie, Rob Riggle is the guy you’d like to see act out a peanut allergy seizure. Sept. 12.
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Series Review: “Titans: The Rise of Hollywood,” a History of Hollywood on a “Drunk History” Budget
Louis B. Mayer, the Hollywood mogul who co-founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film studio still around today as Amazon’s MGM, was born Lazar Meir in Dymer, Ukraine, before emigrating to Canada and then the United States. William Fox, whose name remains emblazened … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: David Koepp’s script puts Liam Neeson and a couple of killer fungus fighting kids in “Cold Storage”
So, REAL strong “Andromeda Strain” played for laughs vibe coming from this “Virus” “Contagion” zombie apocalypse picture. Liam and Georgina Campbell and Joe Keery and nepo baby Sosie Bacon and Lesley MANVILLE and VANESSA REDGRAVE? David Koepp scripted most of … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Jon Heder is “Waltzing with Brando,” aka Billy Zane
Honestly, having interviewed Billy Zane a few times over the years, hanging around with that dude would be pretty fun and “out there.” But as Brando? Man. This is about Brando’s grandiose plans for his South Pacific island — home, … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Hal Hartley’s still around, figuring out “Where to Land”
A filmmaker of that Henry Jaglom/Tom DiCillo/Nicole Holofcener generation of indies serves up a story of a former rom-com director who finds himself applying to work at a cemetery. Bill Sage stars, with Gia Crovatin, veteran heavy Robert John Burke … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Siblings Josh Gad and Kaya Scodelario find a body in Mom’s Basement, one of the trials of “Adulthood”
Gad plays a screenwriter — “I wrote for two seasons on ‘Blue Bloods’” — who ponders who killed somebody and buried them in the walls of the house he grew up in. His sister is just a tad freaked out … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Dame Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Sir Ben Kingsley head “The Thursday Murder Club”
Those Brits and their OAP murder mystery solvers. Based on a sort of Agatha Christie-lite novel, this looks cute. A couple of Oscar winners and an ex James Bond gives it cachet. Celia Imrie is the “new” recruit to this … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Michael Douglas is a grandpa remembering his colorful past, “Looking Through Water”
David Morse plays Grandpa’s avid angler dad in these reminiscences, with Michael Stahl David, Ximena Romo, Walter Scobell and Cameron Douglas also on board. This fishing yarn, set in Belize, is a Good Deeds Entertainment release slated to come out … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Clever clever horror, “Weapons,” Son of “Barbarian”
Glancing back at my review of “Barbarian,” the sinister, smart and sometimes funny blend of scary and silly that became actor-turned-writer/director Zack Cregger’s breakout movie a couple of years back, I’m tempted to repeat myself. He got “the simple things” … Continue reading
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