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Netflixable? “Husbands in Action” serve up Korean Goofballs in a Kidnapping Caper
If you watch one screwball Korean action comedy this year… Damn. I just can’t pull the trigger on that sort of endorsement for “Husbands in Action,” a dopier-than-dopey kidnapping caper that “TV-MA” rating or not, seems aimed at kids. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged asian-cinema, imdb-problems, korean-comedy, movies, Reviews
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Series Review: Not Your Grandpa’s “Grand Tour”
The dropping of a new series of “The Grand Tour” held about as much interest for me as the announcement that the BBC is re-engineering “Top Gear” for another run, this time with a comedian/car-nut as its center. It’s TV, … Continue reading
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Tagged car-culture, drive-tribe, james-may, jeremy-clarkson, the-grand-tour, top-gear, travel, wilman
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Movie Review: Eyes Off the Prize? Civil Rights Justice “By Any Means”
The all-too-human lust for vengeance collides with the faint hope for justice in “By Any Means,” a Civil Rights thriller set in the “Mississippi Burning” timeline. It’s a violent “true enough for Hollywood” tale of torture and summary executions in … Continue reading
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Tagged ethan-embry, giancarlo-esposito, mark-wahlberg, movies, nicole-beharie
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Movie Review: Godawful Gal can’t get “The Runner” up to Speed
The star is generally too easy a target when you’re looking for the ways a movie goes wrong. So if we’re cutting Gal Gadot any slack at all for the debacle that “The Runner” turned out to be, let’s zero … Continue reading
Movie Review: Ryan R. and Kenneth B. gun for “Top Gun” — “Mayday”
Let’s go with “adorably awful,” because “delightfully dumb” seems like a stretch. “Mayday” is a pseudo-serious send-up of “Top Gun” starring two guys who should know better, but whose way with a punch line ensures it’ll at least serve up … Continue reading
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Tagged featured, inspiration, mayday, travel
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Series Redux — “Saturday Night Live,” the First Season
I’ve been thinking a lot of late about Martin Short’s assertion — in Lawrence Kasdan’s “Life is Short” documentary — that “80 percent of comedy” fails, and the fact that he wasn’t talking just about his own efforts in landing … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Hello, Dolly — “9 to 5” becomes a Clarion Call for Working Women
You know and I know the title song “9 to 5” was always better than the movie “9 to 5,” right? Memory can fix a “classic” film’s failings, and this one — a big, touched-a-nerve hit when it premiered in … Continue reading
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Tagged country-music, dabney-coleman, dolly-parton, film, jane-fonda, lily-tomlin, music
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Documentary Review: A Classic Film, Controversy, and Wounded Turkish Pride — “Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey”
There was a time when movies could create an international furor that could last for years — decades, even. If you think North Korea’s war on Sony over “The Interview,” racist YA sci-fi fans fuming over the fact that Black … Continue reading
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Tagged film, islamic-homophobia, israel, midnight-express, movies, Reviews, turkey
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Netflixable? DeNiro, Monaghan and Scott need answers from “The Whisper Man”
Crackling performances and a twisty plot that mixes melodrama with suspense recommend “The Whisper Man,” a new thriller based on an Alex North novel. It’s “Silence of the Lambs” paying homage to “The Slender Man,” a tale of fathers and … Continue reading
Movie Review: “Tony” Bourdain Comes of Age in a Kitchen Bildunsroman
Anybody who’s ever done restaurant work knows that you grow up fast in a kitchen. The speed and urgency, the pressure cooker of it all — people thrown together in hot, confined spaces, trying to work in concert with each … Continue reading
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