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Movie Preview: Bertolucci, Brando (Matt Dillon) and “Being Maria” Schneider make “Last Tango in Paris”
A notorious ’70s film got a lot more notorious in recent years as its co-star — the then young and new to film Maria Schneider, spoke of the ugliness and on camera abuse that went into making it. Anamaria Vartolomei … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Kurdish Immigrant in Norway gets a Visit from “My Uncle Jens”
Akam is a young teacher who instructs kids from many cultures in the finer points of reading and writing in Norwegian, but who rarely gives a thought to his own Kurdish heritage. Until that night his the doorbell of his … Continue reading
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Tagged iran, kurdish-comedy, kurdistan, movie-review, norway, norwegian-film, peshmarga, writing
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Movie Review: Chinese Mob Lawyer insists “I Did It My Way”
“I Did It My Way” is a Hong Kong cops-vs-Dark Web/Drug Trade thriller that unfolds like a tragic opera, one set to the strains of Frank Sinatra’s third biggest hit. The action, emotions and sentimental turns in the plot are … Continue reading
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Tagged andy-lau, crime, dark-web, eddie-peng, hong-kong-thriller, movie-reviews, silk-road, thriller
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Movie Preview: The Revolution against the Plutocrats will be…a Sadie Sink musical? “O’Dessa”
Sink has the title role, a poor girl trapped in a dystopia run by Plutonovich (Murray Bartlett) with only her songs to fight the fascism. Regina Hall, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Mark Boone, Jr. also star in this one, which … Continue reading
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Series Preview: A David Oyelowo period piece comedy — “Government Cheese”
An inventor, family man, ex-con and career B&E specialist and all around hustler. Doesn’t exactly fit how we’ve generally seen David Oyelowo (“Selma,””The Book of Clarence”) on screen, big or small. Simone Missick co-stars. Yeah, I barely recognized Bokeem Woodbine … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Not all Hackman “classics” are created equal — “The Domino Principle” (1977)
Some vintage cinema you begin watching with the idea that you’re to see a “classic” featuring an Oscar winner, a famed producer/director and a handful of legends of the big and small screen. And some of those movies remind you … Continue reading
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Tagged candice-bergen, classic-film, film, gene-hackman, mickey-rooney, movie-review, Reviews, stanley-kramer
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Movie Preview: “A Nice Indian Boy” just wants to meet another “Nice Indian Boy”
Mindy Kaling produced this April 4 (Wayfarer) release about a gay Indian doctor who meets his dreamboat — a white man adopted by Indian parents. This is a culture clash comedy STUFFED with POSSIBILITIES — Indian diaspora attitudes towards homosexuality, … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: The Inner Life and Trials of a mild-mannered Librarian — “Darkest Miriam”
Britt Lower stars in this account of the loneliness of a profession which entails a lot more than just books. Any public librarian in any town or city of any size deals with the cranky, loud elderly, unruly youth, the … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Crispin Glover takes on a Lon Chaney silent classic — “A Blind Bargain”
Paul Bunnell directed and co-wrote this “reimagining” of a horror silent film from 1922, starring Lon Chaney then, Crispin Glover today. It was about a doctor who experiments on a man in exchange for giving medical care to the “subject’s” … Continue reading
Movie Review: Keaton, Lulu and Hodge taste the benefits of “Arthur’s Whisky”
Of all the “Mad Money,” “Poms” and “Book Club” trifles that Oscar winner Diane Keaton has made since stardom faded, “Arthur’s Whisky” might be the most trifling. But this British nothing of a “fountain of youth” comedy manages to go … Continue reading
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