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Movie Critic, formerly with McClatchy-Tribune News Service, Orlando Sentinel, published in Spin Magazine, The World and now published here, Orlando Magazine, Autoweek Magazine

Keanu Reeves Dinner Date Scene – “Always be My Maybe”

My review of “Always be My Maybe” was an endorsement. Far from a rave. I get why it has some buzz beyond Netflix. It’s flip and mildly amusing, a formula rom com with an Asian cast, which is inclusive and … Continue reading

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British Film Institute puts Best of British Cinema online in new streaming g service

Granted, it I’ll be on Roku, so that’s a of catch. But BFI just gave us another reason to cut the cable cord. https://t.co/LBZqs55IZ2 https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1136577813891473409?s=17

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John Turturro interview: ‘I wouldn’t cast Woody Allen now’

Yes, Woody can still work…in Spain. With contrarian Christoph Waltz. But others casting him in movies? Not happening. For a variety of reasons. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/john-turturro-interview-gloria-bell-woody-allen-going-place-the-big-lebowski-a8946846.html?amp

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Movie Review: Horror hides in plain sight on “Clinton Road”

The movie star saunters up to the young lady who decides who gets in and who doesn’t at the newly re-opened bar, Chelsea Landing. “Eric Roberts,” he says. “I’m on the list.” “You’re not Eric. I know Eric. He’s taller. … Continue reading

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Preview, Jean Reno’s hit man retires, only not so much in “Cold Blood”

Jean Reno’s Leon may not have lived through being “The Professional,” but that doesn’t mean he’s not up to playing hit men into his dotage. “Cold Blood” parks him in the snowy wilderness, suddenly visited by Sarah Lind, when he … Continue reading

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Netflixable? Indian comedy “Chopsticks” finds laughs, just not quite enough

A mousey, easily bullied and naive small town girl buys her first car thanks to her first job in the Big City — translator and tour guide. She gets scammed out of her Hyundai the day she picks it up. … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Baby snatching at the B & B — “The Child Remains”

She’s “an acclaimed reporter,” pregnant at 42 and desperate for a little weekend getaway on her birthday. He’s a younger musician, struggling to keep the dream alive a little longer with fatherhood bearing down on him. Rae (Suzanne Clément) has … Continue reading

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Cherokee Wes Studi first Native American to receive Oscar with Lifetime Achievement Award

Well deserved. A great actor and iconic screen presence. Great in Westerns, well-cast as cops, etc. in any tale set in the Desert Southwest or “The Nations,” criminally under-used in other films. I interviewed him when “Last of the Mohicans” … Continue reading

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Christian boycott of Netflix and other producers that say they’re pulling out of Georgia

Faithwire, source of this story, would have you believe it’s an explosive “movement” that is convincing anti abortion conservatives to drop Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus etc The numbers are laughably low to be making that claim. But it’ll be interesting … Continue reading

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Preview, So how down and dirty will “The Quiet One,” the doc about Rolling Stone bassist and cradle robber Bill Wyman, get?

He took notes, photographed and documented the band’s Iives and their career together. June 21, we see what he saw.

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