Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Documentary Preview: PBS “American Masters” finally gets around to the Great Blake Edwards — “A Love Story in 24 Frames”

One of the under-appreciated Kings of Film Comedy, Blake Edwards did “Pink Panther” movies, and “10,” “Victor/Victoria” and the pretty good skewering of Hollywood, “SOB.” The Panther movies are a grand thing to be remembered for, kid-friendly slapstick “sex farces” … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Anna Kendrick directs herself into the horrors of “The Dating Game” — “Woman of the Hour”

A chiller about the ’60s/70s “dating” game show, with Anna K. playing a struggling actress who gets on the show for exposure and figures out the awful truth about it and herself in the process. Doesn’t look as if this … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Viggo goes down the rabbit hole on a Western about filming a Western — “Eureka”

A black and white Western, a real world outside the making of that Western with people in the jungles of Brazil and the frozen north. This is the latest three stories/one movie adventure from trippy Argentine Lisandro Alonso (“Liverpool”).

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Movie Preview: A Belgian film noir with a techno beat — “The Other Laurens”

August 23, we get a load of this. A lot of OLD GUYS in the cast. Which explains the techno. Oui?

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Movie Review: Frank Langella barely gets his dander up in “Angry Neighbors”

There are a few actors worth taking a flier on just from seeing their name in the credits. Frank Langella sits on that list, or rather he once did. But the more important names attached to “Angry Neighbors” are Warren … Continue reading

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Classic Film Review: Sam Fuller sends LA Detectives into Little Tokyo in “The Crimson Kimono”

Writer-director Samuel Fuller (“The Big Red One,” “Pickup on South Street”) ticks off a lot of the “Sam Fuller Film” boxes in his 1959 noir drama, “The Crimson Kimono.” It’s sordid and a tad seamy, set on the mean streets … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Love, but with a cycle of abuse? “It Ends with Us”

There’s no getting around the “romance novel with abuse” maternity of “It Ends with Us.” A florist named Lily Bloom, a tall, handsome lover with anger management issues named Ryle (“Rile” would have been too on the nose?), a white … Continue reading

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BOX OFFICE: “It Ends with Us” opens big, big enough for Blake to best hubby Ryan’s “Deadpool & Wolverine?”

The big turnout Thursday and Friday pushed the Blake Lively film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s romance with a side of abuse novel “It Ends with Us” pushed it over $23 million for the weekend. The drama, also starring Justin Baldoni … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Oscar winners visit Eli Roth’s scrapyard — “Borderlands”

A cutesie calamity of a sci-fi cartoon, “Borderlands” tosses Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis into an Eli Roth Cuisanart of crap, a movie where Kevin Hart should have been happy to take third, fourth or fifth billing. … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Wanna do a heist in Beantown? Consider Damon and Affleck, “The Instigators”

The idea, which two Afflecks and a Damon produced, one Affleck co-wrote and an Affleck and a Damon star in, was to throw Casey and Matt, Ving and Ron Perlman, Toby Jones and Alfred Molina and Hong Chau at a … Continue reading

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