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Classic Film Review: Lemmon and Allyson remake “It Happened One Night” — as a musical — “You Can’t Run Away from It” (1956)
“You Can’t Run Away from It” is a comic curiosity from the early career of Jack Lemmon, a musical filmed when studios were scrambling to lure filmgoers away from TV and when musicals were so overexposed — “The King and … Continue reading
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Tagged comedy, film-review, jack-lemmon, june-allyson, movie-musicals, movies
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Movie Review: A Brave anti-fascist theologian is clumsily remembered in “Bonhoeffer”
I highly recommend you pay a quick visit to the Wikipedia page dedicated to German theologian and resistance martyr Dietrch Bonhoeffer before taking on writer-director Todd Komarnicki’s film “Bonhoeffer.” Otherwise, you might be as lost as I was thanks to … Continue reading
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Tagged bonhoeffer, christianity, dietrich-bonhoeffer, faith, movie-review
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Movie Preview: The Perfect title for a Horror Film? “The Man in the White Van”
Dec. 13, we figure out if this title tells us everything that we need to know about this one.
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Netflixable? “Hot Frosty” serves up a Snowman Who’s “Cut”
When it comes to holiday films, American tastes long ago moved into HallmarkLand. Christmas princes, princesses, holiday get-aways that turn into second chance romances, holiday movies these days are all about Dolly Parton, Nicolas Sparks and sentiments — and plots … Continue reading
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Tagged christmas, frosty-the-snowman, holiday-movies, lacey-chabert, netflix
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Movie Review: Sex Worker “Anora” marries her “Whale”
Full disclosure, I ducked into “Anora” a couple of times, waiting for other movies to start, before finally setting aside the time to watch Sean Baker’s latest, start to finish. The tale of an American sex worker of Eastern European … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Mismatched Cousins Find their Pilgrimage to the Motherland “A Real Pain”
It’s true that the funniest bits in Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain” turn up in the movie’s trailers. A lot of over-reactions and under-reactions, infectiously exhuberant changes of mood that can be exhaustingly manic, a big personality overhwelming a reserved … Continue reading
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Tagged film-review, holocaust, jesse-eisenberg, kieran-culkin
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Movie Review: Cillian Murphy’s an Irishman Haunted by the Cruelty of the Magdalene Laundries — “Small Things Like These”
There have been more emotional films about the great shame of modern Ireland, the state’s complicity with the Catholic church’s infamous “Magdalene Laundries, which imprisoned pregnant young women in convents, forced them to work for convent for-profit laundry services and … Continue reading
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Tagged cillian-murphy, claire-keegan, film-review, irish-cinema, magdalene-laundies, movies, tim-mielants
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Movie Review: Eastwood’s made a creaky court case built around “Juror #2”
Maybe the answer to “Why did Warner Brothers barely release Clint Eastwood’s ‘final film?” was that it’s just not very good. “Juror # 2” is competently cast, acted, shot and put together. But the script is melodramatic to the point … Continue reading
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Tagged clint-eastwood, film, juror-2, movies, nicholas-hoult
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Movie Review: Dumb action gets dumber, “Get Fast”
“Stupid is as stupid does,” and stupid’s entirely the point of “Get Fast,” a dumber-than-dumb action pic that sets out to prove how much movie you can make with pretty much no script at all. Catch-phrases and stock characters, a … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Elliot Page stars in a Transgender Homecoming — “Close to You”
The Canadian drama “Close to You” is a quiet, contemplative and yet deflatingly unsurprising homecoming story about an unhappy, maladjusted daughter who returns to his former home and former life after gender reassignment treatment. It stars the transgender actor Elliot … Continue reading
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