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Movie Preview: Dwayne Johnson wears prosthetics as UFC’s “The Smashing Machine”
I know it’s an A24 release rolling out Oct. 3, on the cusp of “awards season.” But how does Emily Blunt agree to co-star — again — with Dwayne “The Human Hemorhoid” Johnson without Disney money? An early UFC history … Continue reading
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Netflixable? A mad bomber plots a “Bullet Train Explosion”
A 1975 Japanese thriller titled “Bullet Train,” about a high-speed passenger train with a bomb on board, one that will explode if the train slows beyond a triggered speed, inspired the bomb-on-a-bus thriller “Speed,” its sequel and lots of imitators. … Continue reading
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Documentary Review: “Tom Dustin: Portrait of a Comedian” pre-rehab
So a 50ish alcoholic manic depressive comic moves to Key West to run a comedy club. Sounds like a movie, right? Well, it did to Joe List. And as he’s one of the hot comics of his generation, he got … Continue reading
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Tagged comedy, documentary, film, humor, joe-list, key-west, movies, Reviews, stand-up-comedy
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Classic Film Review: It’s 2026 — Are we ready for What Cukor, Hepburn ,Tracy and Donald Ogden Stewart warned us about Fascism? “Keeper of the Flame” (1942)
Big speeches rife with “the F-word”– “fascism” — pack the third act of “Keeper of the Flame,” a mid-WWII MGM thriller that was a tad too anti-fascist for fat cat studio chief Louis B. Mayer. Those speeches also burden a … Continue reading
Movie Preview: Kevin Spacey returns from the Wilderness — or Doesn’t — “1780”
Southern fried accent in Revolutionary War Pennsylvania? That totally tracks. Doesn’t look like much, but we’ll see, if this isn’t canceled pre release.
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Movie Preview: Blair Witch Myth Marketing Lives! “Weapons”
This August release is mainly interesting because of the way the “Maybrook Missing” children, who (in the film) dashed out of their homes and into the night at 2:17 pm, is being shallow faked into “reality.” It’s an August 8 … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Melodrama polished to a fine sheen, “Bonjour Tristesse”
The serene overheated-via-slow-simmer melodrama “Bonjour Tristesse” leaves its 1950s origins behind in a shimmering new screen adaptation by first-time writer/director Durga Chew-Bose. Based on the most famous work of French college girl novelist Françoise Sagan, this tale of privilege, petulant … Continue reading
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Series Preview: Julianne Moore has Milly Alcock, but not sister Meghann Fahy, as one of her “Sirens”
A huge estate on a posh island, lots of “followers” who live at the beck and call of a mysterious beauty only her closest associates call “Kiki,” a sister in search of a sibling who “wasn’t there” for their father’s … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Cry “Havoc,” and let’s slip Tom Hardy another ammo clip
Netflix writing a big fat check to the filmmaker who gave us the gonzo Indonesian action franchise “The Raid” was a smart move. But even fans of the over-the-top mayhem that is writer-director Gareth Evans’ trademark may be moved to … Continue reading
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Tagged chinese-triads, film, forest-whitaker, gareth-evans, havoc, netflix, review, timothy-olyphant, tom-hardy
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Movie Preview: Elba and Cena, Idris and John are action hero “Heads of State”
This looks almost theatrical, like say Nettlix’s “Bullet Train” and a few other titles of late. But Amazon’s feeding us Idris Elba and John Cena as a prime minister and a movie star president who have to get physical, with … Continue reading
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