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Movie Review: “Don’t Move” or the Creature in the Creature Feature will Get You
“Don’t Move” begins with a tragedy so vivid and horrific it sets us up for a much better thriller than the movie that follows. A competent, can-do mother braves the flames of a seedy amusement park haunted house horror ride … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Friedkin tries Funny — “The Brinks Job”(1978)
It’s not shocking to realize that William Friedkin, one of the star directors of ’70s filmmaking, took a breather and attempted a caper comedy after the ordeals of “The French Connection” and “Sorcerer,” seeing as how the latter film damn … Continue reading
BOX OFFICE: “Verity” opens big, “Digger” takes a Dive
Anne Hathaway has a hit! And Tom Cruise doesn’t! That’s the take-away from this first weekend in October, when a “chick lit” thriller starring an Oscar winner out-earns one of the biggest box office stars of all time in what … Continue reading
Movie Review: A Hole Even “Digger” Cruise Can’t Shovel His Way Out Of
One has to appreciate the huge swing four-time Oscar winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu and his Oscarless star Tom Cruise took with their climate crisis and culture satire “Digger.” But it’s still a swing and an epic miss. The director of … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: The Duke, Quakers and the Original “Angel and the Badman” (1947)
John Wayne was on the cusp of his career peak when he struck off on his own and produced and starred in “Angel and the Badman,” a project written and directed by James Edward Grant, who’d become Wayne’s confidante and … Continue reading
Movie Review: An “Angel and the Badman” in which Tommy Lee Jones plays Neither
“Angel and the Badman” is a remake of a classic John Wayne Western of the 1940s, with Oscar-winner Tommy Lee Jones in the role of the cagey marshal in this corner of the mythic West and EveryVillain Neal McDonough as … Continue reading
Classic Film Review: “El Cid” (1961 — Still a Stiff?
Yup. That’s the answer to the rhetorical question posed by that bad-pun headline. Honestly, I’ve never understood any of the adoring or merely “tolerant” reviews of “El Cid,” a corpse of a corpse-on-horseback “history.” Charlton Heston, at his Big Man … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Falling In and Out of Love, “In Spite of Ourselves”
It’s become a romance/romantic comedy cliche, that eager, disrobing, slam-your-partner-against-the-wall sex after the first date. And if “In Spite of Ourselves” accomplishes nothing else, at least it sticks a skewer in that “let’s get this out of the way” movie … Continue reading
Netflixable? Shailene’s on the hunt for the “Unabomber”
The difference between “a true story” and “inspired by a true story/true events” is laid bare in “Unabomber,” an account of the tail end of the hunt for mad mail bomber Ted Kaczynski. The heroine, played by Shailene Woodley, is … Continue reading
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Documentary Review: Cinema as Seen from the Projection Booth — “Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey”
You probably missed this sprawling, feel-good-about-cinema’s-future Australian documentary “Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey” when it made the rounds of film festivals and earned a limited release a couple of years back. Celluloid purists certainly wouldn’t have. Australian projectionist turned doc-maker … Continue reading
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