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Classic Film Review: Dietrich and Douglas, Posh Infidelity with “The Lubitsch Touch” — “Angel”
It’s 1937, and Marlene Dietrich would let the world know she could shed almost every hint of her German accent when it suited her purposes. Melvyn Douglas proved that all a bland leading man needed to do was grow a … Continue reading
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Tagged books, classic-film, film, history
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BOX OFFICE: “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” falls over 60%, still pulls in over $140 million on its 2nd weekend
It is turning into another big weekend for Sony’s “soulless” and “joyless” latest Tom Holland “Spider-Man” comic book adaptation. “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” is on track to pull in another $143 million, based on a boffo Friday ($43 million) take … Continue reading
Netflixable? It’s “The Last House” and Nobody Should Buy It
“The Last House” is “A Quiet Place” with rain — “A Rainy Place.” With survivalism. And monsters. It’s a dull and exceptionally stupid environmental thriller, sort of “The Revenge of the Sea” for dummies. Screenwriter Matthew Robinson wrote “Love and … Continue reading
Movie Review: Discovering his Greek Roots in “A Spartan Dream”
A little charm is meant to go a very long way in the daft and twee Greek American comedy “A Spartan Dream.” Never quite funny but aspiring to “cute,” it serves up a little Greek history — some of it … Continue reading
Netflixable? “The Debt Collector” owes us Our Time Back
“The Debt Collector” is a rigidly, laughably formulaic martial arts thriller that takes forever and a day to tick off the checklist of ingredients of that formula. The plot of this Thai tale is so moldy, with one mandatory waypoint … Continue reading
Classic Film Review: Cocteau Kink? “Les parents terribles — The Terrible Parents,” aka “The Storm Within”(1948)
One of the most praised French films of its day, Jean Cocteau’s 1948 dark comedy “Les parents terribles” still summons a chuckle or two and a cineaste’s appreciation of its compact, concentrated mise en scene-focused compositions, cinematography and editing. Its … Continue reading
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Tagged books, cocteau, film, film-criticism, literature, paris, postwar-french-cinema, welles, writing
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Movie Review: A Serial Killer gives Pedophile Priests “Unholy Communion”
“Unholy Communion” is a lukewarm mystery-thriller about a hot-button topic. A serial killer exacts vengeaunce on child-molesting Catholic priests in the aftermath of what used to be the biggest sex scandal in history. These days, with a pedophile-tolerant Catholic-packed Supreme … Continue reading
Series Review: Epic Investigation, Ghastly Crime — “The Bombing of Pan Am 103”
A heinous crime, the vast investigation undertaken to solve it and the elusive pursuit of “justice” makes for an enrossing but sprawling and ungainly mini-series in “The Bombing of Pan Am 103.” Writer-and-series-creator Jonathan Lee’s second crack at this material … Continue reading
Movie Review: Gen Z confronts “I Want Your Sex” Reality — with Trepidation
Some of us saw this coming way back when “Tron” was rebooted as “Tron: Legacy” The chilly, chiseled perfection that was Olivia Wilde just screamed “dominatrix,” and maybe a future in Cruella de Vil/Nora Desmond roles. Wilde, dolled up in … Continue reading
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Tagged cooper-hoffman, film, gregg-araki, movies, olivia-wilde
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BOX OFFICE: “Spider Man: A Brand New” Opening Day, but not Opening Weekend Record
So Thursday night was a big deal at the box office. I went to a late afternoon showing of the latest Marvel, “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” — not the first nor the last of the evening, with screenings starting @noon … Continue reading
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