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Movie Review: Kinnaman’s a cop who goes Deaf and Faces his most Perilous Case — “The Silent Hour”
I swear, there must be an “example” screenplay in every film school’s Screenwriting 201 textbook, one with “dirty cops” who must be overcome, outsmarted and above all else SUSPECTED in a thriller that hopes to deliver a second or third … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Jeremy Piven and Robert Carlyle star in Arthur Miller’s “The Performance”
This film, directed by Piven’s sister — their parents are acting/comedy/improv royalty in Chicagoland — is making the festival rounds now, with a planned release in January. A pre-WWII story about a struggling Jewish tap dancer whose troupe gets a … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Gable, Gardner and Grace switch partners on Safari — “Mogambo” (1953)
Every classic film fan has her or his go-to stars, just as film fans did back when the movies were young, or stepping into middle age. I’ll watch most anything with Bogart and/or Bacall, William Powell, Gary Cooper, Joel McRea, … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Michael Cera, a Spielberg and a Scorsese celebrate “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point”
Elsie Fisher and Gregg Turkington also star in this offbeat romp. A multi generational Italian family holiday gathering in the ancestral home turns testy? Go figure. Throw in a couple of Hollywood “nepo babies” and you get financing. This hits theaters … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Dylan for the Holidays, a new trailer for “A Complete Unknown”
Any dude with the barest hint of a singing voice and a lot of adenoids can manage a Bob Dylan impression with just a little practice. The bigger test in this Dec. 25 release will be if Monica Barbero can … Continue reading
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Netflixable? A Colorless Cast reminds us that a body-switch thriller is not just “It’s What’s Inside”
“It’s What’s Inside” is a high-concept body-switch thriller that relies on performances to convince us that this or that little-known to utterly-anonymous actors has switched roles to come off. They don’t and it doesn’t. While writer-director Greg Jardin does his … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Brit fools find “Time Travel is Dangerous”
Megan Stevenson, Ruth Syratt, Jane Horrocks and Sophie Thompson are in the cast, Stephen Fry narrates, much as he did the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” movie. But this looks 1963 “Doctor Who” cheap, goofy and sure to be a … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Zoe Saldana, Karla Sofía Gascón and Selena Gomez star in Gender-Bending Cartel tale “Emilia Pérez”
Edgar Ramírez and Adriana Paz also star in this edgy tale of a cartel kingpin who wants to retire…as a queen. Audacious Jacques Audiard wrote “A Prophet” and “Rust & Bone” and this comic thriller/musical. Limited theatrical release as this … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Joseph Gordon-Levitt braves the “Killer Heat” to solve a Crime on Crete
Joseph Gordon-Levitt gets to play a detective’s “Eureka” moment in “Killer Heat,” a new mystery thriller from the French director “Night of the Kings.” As ex-NYC cop (Aren’t they all?) Nick Bali, he rolls his eyes, paces the crime scene … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Coming of age, “Escaping Ohio”
She’s ready to flee the nest and move to California. He’s determined to make the case that staying in the Buckeye State is her first, best destiny. Alas, he doesn’t turn on the weather channel and show her the wide … Continue reading
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