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Movie Review: A Lad is Tested, “Lost on a Mountain in Maine”
A piece of Maine woodlands lore comes to the screen in “Lost on a Mountain in Maine,” a sturdy indie retelling of the story of a boy battling long odds against his survival in the dense woods and ever-changing weather … Continue reading
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Tagged docudrama, donn-fendler, maine, mount-katahdin, movie-review, penobscot, woodlore
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Movie Preview: A Chilly Period Piece about a Rescue at Sea that Goes Wrong — “The Damned”
The trailer to this 19th century age-of-sail horror tale plays like an oft-told tale of the sea. A snowy Icelandic fishing village fails in its responbility to its brother mariners, and is “damned” for it. Odessa Young stars in this … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Lucy Hale, Virginia Gardner, “serial killer s—” and a vigorous game of “F Marry Kill”
Bethany Brown, JayR Tinaco (Um, how DO you pronounce that?), Brooke Nevin and Haley Victoria Hunt empty out Hollywood’s supply of Pretty Young Things for this cast. “Serial dating” features in what turns out to be another “true crime podcast … Continue reading
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Movie Preview” Keira kills and kicks ass — “Black Dove”
This espionage thriller series was created by the fellow who gave us “The Lazarus Project,” and co-stars Ben Whishaw and Tracey Ullman. Kind of bummed its not a feature film, as I was wondering where Knightley had got off to, … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Documentary captures “Martha” Stewart in her Multitudes
At her zenith, Martha Stewart could come off as insufferable, an icy perfectionist who’d never let a hair seem out of place or a place setting pass that didn’t have hand-made touches. But even her haters had a hunch she … Continue reading
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Tagged food, lifestyle, martha-stewart, news, perfectionism
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Movie Review: Reiser and Sarandon and Shameik take bowling into “The Gutter” in this farce
A just-clever-enough conceit and generally cheerful performances are almost enough to put over “The Gutter,” a coarse and comically crude bowling farce featuring an Oscar winner and a Black bowler who just might take over “the whitest sport” while no … Continue reading
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Movie Review: More Teased than Terrified by What’s Behind that “Cellar Door”
“Cellar Door” is an attempt at the thriller-as-parable, a suspenseful story about a troubled couple tested by temptation and the ugly “answers” they might find by peeking behind that which they’ve been warned to never open, the cellar door of … Continue reading
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Tagged horror, jordana-brewster, laurence-fishburne, movie, movies, news
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Teri Garr: The funny Blonde Next Door –1944-2024
Teri Garr, a character actress always good for a giggle, who always won our sympathy and who even collected an Oscar nomination for her comedic skills, has died. A scene stealer from the mid-career films of Elvis Presley, to TV’s … Continue reading
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Chalamet goes “Subterranean” for this music video from “A Complete Unknown”
Searchlight is doing a swell job of convincing us Timothee can impersonate Bob Dylan. As to the story the movie tells and the way it tells it? Dec. 25 we’ll have a take on that.
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Movie Review: Martial artist attacks like a “Bangkok Dog”
There’s a charismatic theatricality to the way stuntman, actor and martial artist D.Y. Sao lands a blow and makes sure to give us his best Bruce Lee Face as he does. That skill, and his fists and feet of fury … Continue reading
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