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Book Review: A Star Director Remembered in his Own Words — “Sydney Pollack: Collected Interviews”
I’m really enjoying and learning a lot about the celebrated, Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack through the assorted journalist interviews, public Q & As and filmmaker-to-filmmaker chats gathered in “Sydney Pollack: Collected Interviews. “ This University Press of Kentucky publication reminds … Continue reading
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Tagged cinema, film, movies, Reviews, robert-redford
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Movie Review: “Carolina Caroline” and Her Man Oliver Rob their Way through the 1990s South
“Carolina Caroline” is a rigidly formulaic romantic thriller about a couple who meet as grifter-and-trainee and abruptly graduate from picking pockets and quick change scams to bank robberies. It’s dogmatic to the point where any potential surprise is smothered out … Continue reading
Movie Review: Radha and Roth and Ioan — “Seven Snipers,” One B-movie from Oz
It’s always encouraging to see good actors continuing to get work after any “hot” streak that their careers gave them winds down. What’s unfortunate is the poor quality of the only projects with half-decent paydays that are on offer. “Seven … Continue reading
Movie Review: The “Pressure” of D-Day Weighs on Ike and his Weathermen
“Pressure” is the sort of , stoic World War II drama that Hollywood and Britain used to turn out in the days when the World War II generation was still going to the movies. It’s built on a formula and … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew-scott, brendan-fraser, d-day-movie, flagg, history, krick, movies, pressure
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Movie Review: Beware the “Backrooms” of Your Worst Nightmares
Here’s a thriller that Maurice Escher could have production designed, with Salvador Dalí decorating the sets and Stanley Kubrick behind the camera directing. Not that Youtube phenom turned horror filmmaker Kane Parsons is the new Kubrick. But in turning his … Continue reading
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Series Review: Nic Cage’s a Private Eye Ensnared in “Spider-Noir”
Nicolas Cage dons the hat, mask, leather and goggles and plunges straight into the Spider-Verse in “Spider-Noir,” the latest Marvel spin-off to earn a series treatment. An appearance previewed way back in the animated “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” predicated on … Continue reading
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Tagged jack-huston, li-jun-li, marvel, movies, nic-cage, spider-noir, tv
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Classic Film Review: The Tragedy of Thatcherism as it Happened — “Looks and Smiles” (1981)
Finding love and then discovering there’s nowhere for it to go thanks to a contracting economy and government hellbent on “breaking” the working class is what Ken Loach’s very fine “Looks and Smiles,” a 1981 classic that offered the first … Continue reading
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