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Movie Preview: Alan Cumming goes Canadian — “Drive Back Home”
Is this showing at a cinema near you? I’m hunting high and low for it. Looks adorable, the prodigal/gay son/brother endures the “Drive Back Home.”
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Movie Review: “Moana 2” is nobody’s idea of “an instant classic”
Here’s how I described Disney’s 2016 blockbuster “Moana” when it came out. “It is an instant classic, a near masterpiece and the best Disney animated film since its last Golden Age, which produced “The Little Mermaid” and “The Lion King.” … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Remembering an earlier coup attempt, an armed insurrection by “The Order”
It’s not the cars and the clothes that establish “The Order” as a period piece. It’s the notion of Federal law enforcement aggressively pursuing violent traitors out to overthrow democracy no matter how indifferent the entitled, selective-enforcement rural sheriffs and … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Y2K,” back when the end was nigh
Why “Y2K?” Why now? Seriously, WTF, Gen Y and Kyle Mooney? Films? LOLs? Not on your life, A24 Films. The ex-“SNL” player Mooney co-wrote, directed and co-stars in “Y2K,” a “horny teenager” comedy that aims to be a sort of … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A Hungarian doctor discovers the need for antiseptics in the Oscar hopeful “Semmelweis”
The medical biopic“Semmelweis“would make a fine double feature paired with the recent Netflix medical history drama “Joy.” Set a century apart, they’re both about a male-dominated medical profession struggling with issues of childbirth. “Joy” is about the long process of … Continue reading
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Documentary Preview: “Becoming Led Zeppelin”
The one apparent “drawback,” if one can call it that, to this doc is the “authorized” nature of this doc of a band not without its share of “lore” and controversy. Morgan Neville (“Piece by Piece,” “20 Feet from Stardom,” … Continue reading
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Netflixable? The Postwar Poor in Italy ship their kids North on “The Children’s Train”
World War II put lots of children, all over the world, in mortal danger. Those families that could often put them on trains to escape it. From the Kindertransport of Jewish children from Nazi controlled corners of Europe to the … Continue reading
Movie Preview: Gillian Anderson, Jason Isaacs are tested by life and a long walk along “The Salt Path”
Hiking, camping, sight-seeing, battered by the elements and homeless in the UK. So…Dorset to Somerset it is. Coming soon, plainly not soon enough for me.
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Movie Review: A Prodigal daughter comes home to find she’s been replaced — “You are Not Me”
The Spanish thriller “You Are Not Me” takes its sweet, creepy time getting around to stating the obvious. Set and shot in rural Valencia, it’s about a doctor/daughter who’s come home for the holidays, bringing her wife and Black adopted … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Palestine’s hope for Oscar recognition? “From Ground Zero” takes us inside Gaza
When tragedy hits artists, artists create. So when the civilians of Gaza were consumed by the conflict that ignited between Hamas and Israel, Palestinian artists — documentarians and diarists, influencers and animators — set out to describe their experience on … Continue reading
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