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Documentary Review: Elder Statesmen of Metal recall “Becoming Led Zeppelin”

Truncated, authorized and sanitized for your protection, “Becoming Led Zeppelin” offers the tamest take you’ll ever see on the hedonistic heavy metal band that started it all. Director Bernard MacMahon agreed to limit himself to what plays as three grandfatherly … Continue reading

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Let’s skip “The Big Game” and Get the “Led” Out — “Becoming Led Zeppelin” doc time

In IMAX, metalheads! Super Bowl Shmoopper Bowl. What’s the over/under on concussions and CTE risk? “Been a long lonely lonely lonely time” I say. (Updated, my review is here.)

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Movie Preview: Amanda Seyfried in Atom Egoyan’s “Seven Veils”

It’s good to see one of Canada’s last auteurs still taking his shots, and Seyfried getting another shot at challenging material. Can’t remember the last Egoyan film that I thought worked, and this one wound up with Distributor of Last … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Jonathan Majors has “Magazine Dreams”

An obsessed body builder will do most anything to his physique to become famous, a winner on the cover of magazines. Majors lays it all out there in what could be his comeback from de facto banishment/cancellation based on legal … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Dutch Marines spring into action when “Invasion!” comes to The ABC Islands

A drowning marine being slapped awake — while 25 or so feet UNDER water — may be the silliest event I’ve ever seen portrayed in a combat film. That’s not enough to ruin the compact Dutch thriller “Invasion!” But it … Continue reading

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Classic Film Review: George C. Scott is the “Transporter” in a much older BMW for “The Last Run” (1971)

“The Last Run” is a tidy if not exactly tight template for generations of “driver” movies to come. Here is George C. Scott as the original “Transporter,” taking out and thrashing a collectible BMW from Portugal to the Pyrnees all … Continue reading

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BOX OFFICE: “Dog Man” eats Super Bowl leftovers, “Heart Eyes” blinks, “Love Hurts” is scarred

“Dog Man,” the “Captain Underpants” sequel that gives family audiences something other than holiday leftovers to take their animated kids to, won last weekend at the box office and won the week as well, earning about a $million a day … Continue reading

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Netflixable? Amy Schumer toys with being “Kinda Pregnant”

It seem unfair that Amy Schumer‘s moment as America’s resident vulgarian and Queen of Crude has passed. We barely remember she was the Oscars hostess the night Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, that “Trainwreck” came out ten years ago and … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “Love Hurts,” and this review may sting a little, too

“Love Hurts” is the first true star vehicle for former child actor turned Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan, who takes his shot at carrying a movie with an action comedy about a mild-mannered realtor who used to be an enforcer … Continue reading

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Movie Review: V-Day Romance Slathered with Slaughter — “Heart Eyes”

A clever-enough conceit, engaging leads and a masked villain of the Jason/Michael Myers/”Scream” variety might be enough to recommend “Heart Eyes,” a “rom com for Valentine’s Day” for the splatter film crowd. Hey, everybody needs a “date movie,” right? It’s … Continue reading

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