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Fionn O’Shea plays the young Beckett, with Lisa Dwyer Hogg, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maxine Peake, Bronagh Gallagher and Caroline Boulton cast as some among the many women in his life. Love the casting of the Irish icon Gabriel Byrne as this … Continue reading →

Carla Juri and Takashi Ueno star in this downbeat Bradley Rust romance, about a woman who travels to Tokyo to visit a friend after the death of her husband. She finds that life goes on, experiencing different worlds within the … Continue reading →

A Pope dies and the world’s cardinals gather, and “you know how rumors spread.” About the death, the election and the candidates, one presumes? The cast includes Sergio Castellitto, Lucian Msamati and Brian F. O’Byrne. November, this latest film from … Continue reading →

The prologue that opens “Twisters” introduces a bunch of characters and kills them off, somewhat dramatically but coldbloodedly. It takes the film a whole hour to raise the stakes as high a second time, hurling characters into a rodeo and … Continue reading →

It looks right. Good cast. Is Disney sweating bullets over HBO or Max or HBO Max stealing their “Star Wars” thunder? No.

This explains that which doesn’t need explaining, but Tim Burton’s got a shot a serious September 6 hit, his first in ages, with this one. Bringing back Winona and Michael Keaton, parking Jenna Ortega front and center. This looks, sounds … Continue reading →

It’s based on a true story, that of Robert Peace, a Newark streets to Yale’s halls success story. Jay Will has the title role. It’s an August 16 release.

The cop “buddy picture”has been around so long that they many films made from this model run together in the mind. It’s all one long “Bad Boys” and “Lethal Weapon” high speed “Rush” down “21 Jump Street” where “The Other … Continue reading →

There are plenty of elements that almost instantly categorize the German comedy “Blame the Game” as a farce. It’s got a large ensemble, mostly people who know each other, gathering for a group board and card game night. Some take … Continue reading →

For this remake of the Chow Yun-fat classic, Woo takes a few pages out of Luc Besson’s “Lady is a Killer” thrillers — “La Femme Nikita,” “Anna.” Nathalie Emmanuel is our hired gun with a “code,” this time. Sam Worthingon … Continue reading →