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Movie Preview: Mobsters meet Japanese Puppeteers — Tim Roth, Takehiro Hira, Jack Lowden and Kôki star in “Tornado”
You had me at…puppeteers? Director John Maclean did “Slow West,” and used to play in a couple of pop bands. We’ll see what we see that comes out of all this and that May 25.
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Movie Review: Payback’s a B–ch in “Revolver”
“Revolver” is a Korean “Payback,” another version of the and the Lee Marvin/John Boorman thriller that’s based on, “Point Blank.” Somebody went to jail, did the time. They get out. They’re owed money. They’re damned sure going to collect it. … Continue reading
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Tagged dirty-cops, korean-thriller, lee-marvin, south-korea
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Movie Preview: Scarjo & Benicio, Cumberbatch & Cranston, Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenican Scheme”
You can tell it’s an Anderson picture within five seconds. The kitschy production design and graphics, the voice over, the Michael Cera/Jeffrey Wright/Rupert-Riz riffs? May 30. Expect to be tickled to death by a tale of oligarchs and terrorists and … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Stoppard has His Way with “Hamlet” for laughs — “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead” (1990)
In search of some vintage laughs among the “classic” collections of my favorite streamers, I stumbled back into the great British playwright Tom Stoppard’s lone directing credit, his star-studded big screen adaptation of “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead.” I saw … Continue reading
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Tagged gary-oldman, hamlet, richard-dreyfuss, rosencrantz, shakespeare, theatre, tim-roth, tom-stoppard
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Movie Preview: Portman and Krasinski, Gleeson and Tucci seek Guy Ritchie’s “Fountain of Youth”
Seriously? OK. Sure. Note the musical touch, an instrumental of U2’s “Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” in this trailer. May 25 Apple takes a shot at what looks to be a “National Treasure,” Brendan Fraser “Mummy” kind of … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Leslie Nielsen or Liam Neeson, it’s still “The Naked Gun”
There’s a laugh or two in this trailer for Seth MacFarlane’s reunion with Neeson (“A Million Ways to Die in the West”) for a remake of Leslie Nielsen’s comical triumph. And there’s something fitting in MacFarlane’s “stretch” of putting aged … Continue reading
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Netflixable? First Love faces the test of “arranged marriage” in “Promised Hearts (Niyala)”
One of the best reasons to take the occasional Around the world with Netflix trip is getting the pulse of another culture through its cinema. It’s a great way recognize one’s own biases and Western ideas of “cultural progress” and … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Jeffrey Dean Morgan knows Jack Quaid is the least reliable witness in this “Neighborhood Watch”
An abduction, a “Screw Loose” nobody takes seriously, except as a suspect. April 25.
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Movie Preview: Disney checks back in with “Tron: Ares”
Greta Lee, Jared Leto, Gillian Anderson and Jeff Bridges, of course, star in this super slick looking sci fi updating of the inside gameverse thriller franchise.
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Movie Review: Pascal, Reaser, Sewell and Goggins as Hollywood “types” face their future and their humanity when they meet “The Uninvited”
Some indie films confound the viewer with a “What did these actors see in THIS?” connundrum. But not “The Uninvited.” What looks like another onanistic Hollywood-skewers-Hollywood dramedy set in a tony Hollywood Hills party is actually a priorities-questioning, expectations-upending and … Continue reading
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Tagged comedy, de-dominici, goggins, hollywood-party, indie-film, movie-review, pascal, Reviews, sewell
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