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Movie Preview: Denzel and Spike, “Highest 2 Lowest”
A hardass music mogul faces an old school, off the books ransom/shakedown. Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera and A$AP Rocky also star in Spike’s latest. August 22, from Apple/A24
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Movie Review: A Chinese Cop and Robber bromance — “Hunt the Wicked”
“Hunt the Wicked” is a dopey, cheesy cop-teams-with-a-robber shoot’em-up, punch’em-down, kick’em-where it hurts thriller from China. A serious read on it has to note its tale of official corruption, with a mayor secretly running a narcotics empire under the noses … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Pierce Brosnan, Samuel L. Jackson and I guess Brandon Lessard are “The Unholy Trinity”
“Trinity” is the name of the town in this Western, and a word revered in Spaghetti Western circles thanks to the “They Call Me Trinity” films starring Terrence Hill in the early ’70s. Native American actress Q’orianka Kilcher (“A New … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Marvel’s New “A” Team earns its asterisk — “Thunderbolts*”
It takes a solid hour to get going, and pretty much as long to identify its characters. Good luck if you buy a ticket and show up without more background than you typically need to know for a comic book … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Janney and Cranston head a ’70s small-time “theatre” family where “Everything’s Going to be Great”
Show business at the dinner theater/regional theater level in the ’70s, this one pairs up Oscar winner Allison Janney with her “I, Tonya” screenwriter and Oscar nominee Bryan Cranston as parents of one “Theatre Kid” and his reluctant older brother. … Continue reading
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Documentary Preview: Astronaut, Glass Ceiling Breaker, Heroine, Queer Icon — “Sally” Ride
This overdue bio-doc hits National Geographic on June 16, and rolls onto streamers Disney+ and Hulu June 17.
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Netflixable? German soldier loses her son in “Exterritorial” territory — the U.S. Embassy
Welcome to the golden age of America as Outlaw State, as depicted in international action cinema. “Exterritorial” has Americans as treasonous allies, corrupt drug smugglers and heartless bureaucrats — kidnapping children and Belarussian refugees, selling “intel” to common enemies and … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: “The Return of Martin Guerre,” the Original “Deep Fake”(1982)
Before he became the French poster boy for “sexual predator,” Gerard Depardieu was the unlikeliest screen sex symbol of his era. Burly to the point of huge, played a soulful “Cyrano” and took on Jean Valjean in a TV version … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Juggling career, offspring and Elderly Parents demands “Relative Control”
Teri Polo of the “Meet the Parents” franchise takes on a far more realistic parental management situation in “Relative Control,” a light dramedy about all the juggling that goes on when one’s parents, love life, career and adult but adrift … Continue reading
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Documentary Preview: “Bono” in Black and White — “Stories of Surrender”
A different backing ensemble, with strings. A few hits. A few stories. Could be revealing, or another venture that gives the haters the fodder they need to go on living. Apple TV+, May 30.
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