Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Next screening? Keaton, Woodard, Bates and Levy re-live “Summer Camp”

Keaton is having a little renaissance thanks to the “Book Club” franchise. Nobody in this picture will ever go out of style. This “Summer Camp” reunion adds Oscar winner Kathy Bates and the luminous Alfre Woodard, along with Eugene Levy … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Clooney and Pitt are “not secret partners,” or grammarians — they’re “Wolfs”

Two competing “cleaners” in the parlance of hit man movies — and those who tidy up bloody messes — are forced to work together in this dark Action comedy slated for Sept 20 release. Great chemistry, as always, dry put … Continue reading

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Series Review — Experts, descendants and Idris Elba remember those “Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Color”

Some years back, there was a Hollywood dustup created when Clint Eastwood released a couple of films about the World War II Battle for Iwo Jima, one from the U.S. point of view, featuring scores of Marines who took part, … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: The World Ends, but Entertainment lives on in Ireland, and all in one car — “Apocalypse Clown”

Dunno. Could be worse. Could be…mimes. French mimes. David Earl, Natalie Palamides, Amy De Bhrún, Fionn Foley, Tadhg Murphy, Ivan Kaye and Shane is JAMES Joyce in the End Times farce from the Emerald Isle. June 14.

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Movie Preview: “Moana 2” takes our heroine even further

A “new adventure” sends Moana deeper into the Pacific at the invitation of The Ancestors.  Looks a lot like an edge-free continuation of the first film, a few years down the road, older and wiser? November. 

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Movie Preview: Nicole K. falls for Zac E. and irks daughter Joey King — “A Family Affair”

This June 28 cougar rom com also stars Kathy Bates. King plays the daughter who works as assistant to the younger dude Mom is warming up to. Veteran screenwriter and sometime director Richard LaGravenese directs.

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Netflixable? Rocker impersonates Country Music Star and drifts from “Zero to Hero”

“Zero to Hero” is badly-botched Brazilian “role switch” comedy about a flailing and failing rocker paid to impersonate Brazil’s most famous country music singer for a national tour when the vain, egotistical and alcoholic Sandro Sanderley lapses into a coma. … Continue reading

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So the reasons for the Great Box Office Bust of 2024 are?

Twitter and Threads were consumed by conversation over the latest big budget popcorn pic of 2024 to open with far less audience enthusiasm, in the form of ticket sales this Memorial Day weekend. “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” stars Anya … Continue reading

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Classic Film Review: Fritz Lang’s Campy, Violent Western morality play — “Rancho Notorious” (1952)

It’s always a little jarring to run across a Golden Age Western directed by the Austrian dabbler in the dark side, Fritz Lang. The director of “M,” “Ministry of Fear” and “The Blue Gardenia” always seemed “urban,” occasionally “futuristic” and … Continue reading

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Movie Review: A Polish parable about humanity, immigration and guilt — “Silent Land”

“Silent Land” is a brittle and biting parable about Europe and widespread attitudes towards the Third World problems of people “over there,” on the other side of the Mediterranean. Director and co-writer Aga Woszcynska serves up a drama on low … Continue reading

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