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Movie Review: Buster Keaton in a “Minions” comedy by Terry Gilliam? “Hundreds of Beavers”
We tend to think of slapstick comedy gag writing as a lost art. It didn’t die along with Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, but its most acclaimed practioners these days are in animation, heirs to the Chuck Jones/Looney Tunes tradition. … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Martial Arts Magic, Mystery and Mayhem delivered by “The Tai Chi Master”
I’m not a big fan of fantasy action films, but I make an inception when the phrase “martial arts” is tossed in. One can never have too much flying wirework, too many mystical punches that could flatten mountains or heroes … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Teen tries to intervene in a slashing spree — “Time Cut”
There are a couple of extra twists in the time travel conundrun presented in “Time Cut,” a tale of teens terrorized by a mad slasher in small town Minnesota. 2003. Serious moral choices are faced, in addition to the “can’t … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay, “The End”
This one has me intrigued. A small cast of survivors, including Moses Ingram, sing through the Apocalypse. Dec. 6.
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Movie Preview: Ken Jeong moves the Fam to rural Wyoming — “A Great Divide”
San Fran sophisticates experience culture shock and xenophobia out in the Red State West. Dr. Ken does his thing. Could be cute and biting.
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Movie Review: Liev Schreiber broods beautifully in Hemingway’s “Across the River and Into the Trees”
“Across the River and Into the Trees” presents Liev Schreiber as the latest Ernest Hemingway literary alter ego to make it to the screen, and perhaps the best ever at capturing the world weariness of the late life, post-World War … Continue reading
Classic Film Review: Welles’ “Othello,” a Masterpiece in Black and White and Blackface
The lore and backstory behind Orson Welles‘ years-in-the-making production of “The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice” has come to overwhelm the movie itself. He was so strapped for funds, filming this in Europe as his American directing career … Continue reading
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Tagged classic-film-review, micheal-macliammoir, orson-welles, othello, shakespeare, theatre, tubi, william-shakespeare
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Movie Preview: Ben Kingsley makes a scary overture to “William Tell”
Switzerland’s mythic hero, subject of a Frederich Schiller play nobody produces and Rossini opera nobody presents and yet whose overture is one of the most famous warhorses (classics everybody knows) in classical music, gets another Swiss “Robin Hood” style film … Continue reading
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BOX OFFICE: “Venom” loses HALF of its fangs, “Here” is barely There, “Absolution” can’t pay for its sins
A steep drop-off for the final film of Tom Hardy’s “Venom” trilogy was always in order. These movies have sucked, and by the second weekend, the supply of filmgoers who might go plunges and “repeat business,” even for comic book … Continue reading
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N.C. Symphony concert night, because Cinephiles love Holst
There were only eight known planets in the solar system when Gustav Holst composed his orchestral suite, consisting of seven tone poems (leaving out Earth, and before Neil DeGrasse Tyson killed “Pluto”) in the middle of World War I. This … Continue reading
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