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Movie Preview: Donnie Yen’s a two-fisted cop who kicks more ass as “The Prosecutor”
Love that Donnie Yen. Jan. 10.
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Classic Film Review: Cleese shows us Classic Comedy can be “Clockwise” (1986)
A person hellbent on maintaining his dignity in the face of everything thrown at him to deny it, and failing, is the essence of comedy. So it was with Keaton, and so it is with Cleese. Somebody said that once. … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Black Women serve in WWII — “The Six Triple Eight”
The only all-Black Women’s Army Corps united to serve in World War II n Europe is fondly remembered in Tyler Perry’s “The Six Triple Eight,” a polished, sentimental and old fashioned picture that points out to the culture at large … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: A romance directed by Julia Stiles — “Wish You Were Here”
Hollywood has had its share of troubles making touching romances in recent years. But if you want somebody who knows the genre and has been in memorable movie romances, you could do a lot worse than giving Julia Stiles (“Ten … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: James Gunn pulls out all the sentimental stops for his “Superman” teaser
Lex and Lois and Clark and a caped critter who barks. Echoes of John Williams, a few names in the cast Brosnahan, Hoult, Gunn’s brother, a mwmber of the Reeve family and Wendell Pierce is “newspaper” editor Perry White. Pushes … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Investigator meets a Murder Suspect and imagines herself “In Her Place (El lugar de la otra)”
The lone woman on a team investigating an instantly-notorious and very public murder finds herself understanding and even envying the murderess in “In Her Place,” a thriller with a message about the lot of women in 1950s South America, and … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Cary Grant Saunters into the Sunset, in his boxers — “Walk Don’t Run” (1966)
There’s an inspired silliness to the Technicolor bon bon “Walk Don’t Run,” the final film in Cary Grant’s legendary Hollywood career. Surely a mere screenwriter — TV veteran (“Bewitched”) Sol Saks in this case — can’t have been the one … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Jenna Ortega, Tea Leoni, Richard E. Grant and Paul Rudd face the consequences of the “Death of a Unicorn”
Will Poulter also stars in this March release, the debut feature of a writer-director who…was on the set (“additional crew”) of Eggers’ “The Witch” and got a producer credit on “Blow the Man Down.” It looks dark and funny and … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Life’s Losers hit the Big-time at “Hotel Bitcoin” — they think
“Hotel Bitcoin” is a screwy Spanish variation on the well-worn “We’ve got the winning lottery ticket” formula. Broke people — the more careless and impulsive the better — find themselves theoretically flush, for once. The “fun” is in seeing how … Continue reading
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Tagged bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, cryptocurrency, finance, movie-review, next, spanish-comedy
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Movie Preview: Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio, “Karate Kid: Legends”
This has “made for streaming” all over it. Sorry, did I sound too enthusiastic, there? But Jackie’s still (somewhat) Jackie, and maybe Ben Wang is a better draw than Will Smith’s kid. Ralph Macchio? “Great to be here!” May 30.
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