Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Movie Review: Zach Braff is smitten with the (Canadian) “French Girl”

There’s something refreshing about seeing Zach Braff renew his “Scrubs” card with a lighter-than-lightweight rom-com that leans into the “sensitive” side which he’s always played for laughs. In “French Girl,” he’s trying to impress his hockey-crazed Canadian in-laws to be, … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Jason Reitman takes us back to the first “Live” “Saturday Night” on NBC

Willem Dafoe and a mostly unknown cast of look-alikes take us back to 1975 with Lorne and Jane and Chevy and Gilda and Garrett and Dan and Laraine and Belushi, with Jim Henson and Andy Kaufman, as “Saturday Night” — … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Encountering the “spirit” of a Hawaiian volcano “At Her Feet”

Interns get to meet a volcano via their ranger supervisor in this travelogue with dramatic elements. The novelty in this scenic tale is the fact that it was shot with an erupting volcano — lava flows, the works — right … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Their “Golden Years” Cruise asks Where the Romance Went

The laughs are cute and spare in the Swiss comedy “Golden Years,” a movie more interested in looking at what the novelist Tom Robbins said was the “ONLY” question in life worth asking — “How to make love stay.” Are … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Robert Patrick sends Frank Grillo and other “Hounds of War” Mercs into Libya

A mercenary mission goes wrong, very wrong, in this Sept. 20 thriller from the director of “Assassin’s Bullet.” Rhona Mitra also stars.

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Series Preview: Cate and Kline, “Disclaimer”

An Oscar-winner-adorned series coming to Apple TV+, “Disclaimer” is about journalistic unmasking of revered institutions. In addition to Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline, Sacha Baron Cohen, Lesley Manville and Kodi Smit-McPhee also star in Alfonso Cuaron’s adaptation of … Continue reading

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Classic Film Review: Nicholson, Young, Quaid and Kane, all reluctantly commissioned to carry out “The Last Detail” (1973)

If you didn’t live through the ’70s, you can still pick up a pretty good idea of what the decade looked and felt like through the movies released and set then. The working class grime, paranoia and diminished expectations wasn’t … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Gangsters should know better than to cross “Duchess”

Saban sent this “trailer,” which is actually a sample scene — “garage ambush.” They’re probably in a rush, seeing as how “Duchess” is sneaking into release Friday. Colm Meany is in the cast, Charlotte Kirk has the title role. Neil … Continue reading

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Netflixable? Buddy Pic vets Hart and Wahlberg pair up for “Me Time”

For anyone who’s wondered if the over-extended, over-exposed Kevin Hart has “stopped trying,” it’s worth catching up with “Me Time,” an earlier stop on his Netflix content train that’s back on the streamer. It pairs up Mr. Buddy Picture (“Ride … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Paul Reiser and Colm Meaney are cousins, of course — “The Problem with People”

The King of Kvetchers flies to Ireland to mix with Mr. “Fer Feck’s Sake” in this comedy about extended family, estranged family and the need to have a will. That’s a fun pairing, any way you slice it. Quiver has … Continue reading

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