Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Netflixable? Those Spanish lovebirds are back, “Through My Window: Across the Sea”

Now that Netflix has turned its popular “horny teens” melodrama “Through My Window” into a franchise, only one question remains. Will the the filmmakers have the cojones to bust these two lovebirds up? For good? “Through My Window: Across the … Continue reading

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Netflixable? Gabrielle Gets her Groove Back with “The Perfect Find”

Gabrielle Union tries her hand at “rebranding” after 40 with “The Perfect Find,” a sexed-up rom-com from the director of “Jezebel.” Her instincts are as sharp as ever. But this contrived “Gabrielle Gets Her Groove Back” is very much a … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Millie Messes Up, so “Millie Lies Low”

“Millie Lies Low” is a next-level cringe-comedy from Kiwi Country, a New Zealand goof on the Deep Fake lives the savvy among us can live on social media when our real lives are coming off the rails. It begins with … Continue reading

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Movie Review: God Bless “The Childe” Who Survives This

“The Childe” is a flip and darkly amusing comic thriller from Korea, a tale of an impoverished Filipino boxer who laments the fact that he’s never been able to find his Korean father. Until he does find him. It’s violent, … Continue reading

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Netflixable? Dropping in on the sword and sorcery anime “Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King”

The magical manga turned anime spectacle “Black Clover” becomes a feature film in “Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King,” an offshoot of the popular TV series that struggles through a sea of characters, contrived factions and sword and sorcery … Continue reading

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Classic Film Review: Kubrick becomes Kubrick, “Paths of Glory” (1957)

Cinephiles congregate around the films of Stanley Kubrick the way history buffs are drawn to Alexander, Hitler and Napoleon. They were all-powerful control freaks who set out to remake the world in an image they saw in their own minds, … Continue reading

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Netflixable? A Mexican Loner takes on “Dark Forces (Fuego Negro)” in a noir horror world

“Dark Forces (Fuego Negro)” is a bloody-minded, sex-scene-stuffed Mexican film noir that that staggers along like a George A. Romero zombie. That’s rich, because “zombies” aren’t the creatures of mythic horror this Bernardo Arellano thriller has in mind. Atmospheric, with … Continue reading

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Documentary Review: Boiling Down “Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music”

One does not know what took so long for drag performer/singer, writer and activist Taylor’s Mac‘s Olympian undertaking, “Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music,” to make it to TV and the masses. An epic 246 song show, toured as … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Jennifer Lawrence “commits” to “No Hard Feelings”

In a summer marked by “outrageous” women-driven comedies of the “Oh no they DIDN’T” variety, Jennifer Lawrence‘s “No Hard Feelings” stands out as the most outrageous of them all. If your jaw doesn’t drop at the sight of a two-time … Continue reading

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Documentary Review: “The League” reasserts The Negro Leagues’ place in Baseball and Black History

Every baseball fan knows about the Negro Leagues, that parallel baseball universe that competed and thrived in the decades before “baseball apartheid” ended and America’s Pastime brought Jackie Robinson, Larry Doby and others into the Major Leagues. Ken Burns had … Continue reading

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