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Movie Review: “Deported” should have been Stopped at the Border
There’s something almost criminal about Amazon acquiring the 2020 immigration “comedy” “Deported,” and passing it off as a “new” “2026” release on their streaming service. There hasn’t been a good time to unleash a raunchy, tone deaf and whitewashed farce … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Tipsy Italians talk a lad into “The Last One for the Road”
“The Last One for the Road” is a seemingly aimless drunken drive through northern Italy, a picaresque misadventure in a minor key about a Neopolitan kid, fresh out of college, being taught “the meaning of life.” Francesco Sossai’s curious gambole … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, alcoholism, europe, italian-cinema, marginal-utility, travel
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Netflixable? Coogan and Bird Charm their Way through a Class on Fascism — “The Penguin Lessons”
No English speaking actor in film is better at making caddish and insufferably self-absorbed charming than Steve Coogan. That proves to be a saving grace of “The Penguin Lessons,” a sweet saunter through a true story of a rescued bird … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Bacon and Sedgwick remind us to do “The Best You Can”
Any team-up of one of the cinema’s most enduring off-camera couples, Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon, should be cherished. They’re both so very good and “natural” doesn’t begin to describe their onscreen chemistry together. They’re as close as Hollywood gets … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Wahlberg and Hauser go “Balls Up” in Brazil
The latest Peter Farrelly of The Farrelly Bros. comedy is a tale of condoms, testicular protection, the South American cocaine trade, the World Cup and two doofuses who find one “fine mess” after another to get themselves into. “Balls Up” … Continue reading
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Documentary Review: Fallopian Furies Fondly Remembered — “Pretty Ugly: The Story of the Lunachicks”
A fun and furious phenomenon of the ’90s New York punk scene is given its due and another faint glimpse of the spotlight in “Pretty Ugly: The Story of the Lunachicks,” a wry, wizened and not remotely bitter doc about … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Mayhem and Murder and the Japanese Mafia Greet Odenkirk in “Normal,” Minnesota
What a time to be alive and a witness to Bob Odenkirk, the Badass Years. The “Mr. Show” alumnus and ex-“Saturday Night Live” writer, a bit player on every sitcom from “Seinfeld” to “How I Met Your Mother” tapped into … Continue reading
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Series Review: More Fun with Dysfunction with Dan Levy — “Big Mistakes”
Dysfunction Junction is somewhere in the career-criminal packed suburbs of northern New Jersey in Dan Levy and Rachel Sennott’s “Big Mistakes,” a harder-edged, over-plotted way of covering the same ground as “Schitt’s Creek,” with little of the charm. Bingeing this … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: A Timeless, Topical, Dated and Dizzy Debacle — “Rosebud” (1975)
One of the most formative books from my movie fanatic youth was Theodore Gershuny’s “Soon to be a Major Motion Picture: The Anatomy of an All-Star, Big-Budget Multi-Million Dollar Disaster.” Gershuny’s on-set/in-the-studio observation of the making of Otto Preminger’s greatest … Continue reading
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Series Review: This “Young Sherlock” is Besties with Moriarty
He can see it all more clearly in his mind, dissecting every detail, stopping the flow of past events to analyze what might have happened or what he might have done about it. A tragedy of his youth, a covert … Continue reading
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