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Movie Preview: The “Musk” documentary “They” don’t want you to see
The oligarchs in charge of Tik Tok, Facebook/Meta, Twitter and Youtube don’t want you to see the movie “Musk.” Hell, the Zuckerberglings don’t even want you to see the TRAILER to this documentary by Oscar winner Alex Gibney, the most … Continue reading
BOX OFFICE: “Avengers,” “Resident Evil,” “Heart of the Beast” and “Primetime” are neck-and-neck over $20 million
Marvel wants to whet the appetites of filmgoers, to not leave less avid Avengers fans in the dark about the convoluted “history” they may have forgotten when “Avengers: Doomsday” lumbers into theaters in December. And they’d love to add a … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A Haunted Japanese Inn’s Worth Visiting, just “Never After Dark”
It’s rare that even a casual horror fan doesn’t greet a new Japanese ghost story with the words, “I LIKE IT already!” Even if the film is made by Tuscon-born one-time Mormon missionary (how he got into Asian culture and … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Pattinson & Weaver are ready for “Primetime”
“Primetime” is a “heavily fictionalized” account of “Dateline NBC’s” notorious, pedophile-entrapping “To Catch a Predator” series of hidden camera “gotchas” passed off as “reports” in the early 2000s. It’s a film that struggles to condemn and illuminate why TV news … Continue reading
Movie Review: A Brad and his Dog — “Heart of the Beast”
“Heart of the Beast” is a solid, formulaic adventure tale given a lift by leading man Brad Pitt and his connection to the German shepherd his character’s brought to the Alaskan wilderness with him. Uber, who plays Odin the combat … Continue reading
Documentary Review: The Long Struggle to “Free Leonard Peltier”
“Free Leonard Peltier” is about the half-century-long struggle to get Native American activist Leonard Peltier out of prison. Peltier, accused of murdering two F.B.I. agents during the Federal government’s intervention in a Native “civil war” at the Pine Ridge Indian … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Ethan Hawke’s Lorenz Hart Sings and Smokes, once in a “Blue Moon”
“Blue Moon,” conceived and released as an awards contender in late 2025, is a tuneful but talk-you-to-death take on a pivotal night late in the life of legendary song lyricist Lorenz Hart. Richard Linklater’s film clings to its “Unhappy Lives … Continue reading
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Movie Review: In Muldoon’s Curtain Call he’s an Ex-Boxer with “Dirty Hands”
Patrick Muldoon was a “Starship Troopers” alumnus who never quite got over the B-movie hump as an actor. He passed away last April at 57. “Dirty Hands” was his final film, a representative work for an actor who made a … Continue reading
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Netflixable? “Stop! That! Train!” Take the “Airplane!” instead!
The longest 90 minute comedy of the mid 2020s might be the one with the most celebrity cameos, and fewest laughs per cameo. That’s an apt description of the drag farce “Stop! That! Train!,” a quaint quip-a-thon in the “Airplane!” … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: ’60s Nippon Noir — “I, the Executioner”
Here’s a lean, mean serial killer thriller from 1960s Japan with sex, grim violence and style to burn. “I, the Executioner,” more poetically subtitled “Requiem for a Massacre,” has a McQueen/Belmondo cool ladykiller– leather sportscoat, black turtleneck, shades and an … Continue reading
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