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Movie preview: The Final “Wake Up Dead Man: Knives Out” trailer
An all star cast and Daniel Craig doing the genteel gay Southern detective bit to the max, one more time. Nov. 26.
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Netflixable? Legendary Thai Gangster “Tee Yai” earns a Weak Tea Action Bio-pic, “Born to be Bad”
For a trigger-happy bank robber, convincing the public and cops that your exploits are “magical,” that you have supernatural protections, would seem like the ultimate edge. Convince law enforcement that bullets pass right through you, that arresting and handcuffing is … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Virginia Madsen and Vondie Curtis Hall try to save a Traumatized and Violent Veteran — “Sheepdog”
Good to see two old favorites get big parts in a feel good drama about the cost of combat experience and attempted “Suicide by Cop.” Jan. 16
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Movie Review: An Indie Gem from Opiod Appalachia — “Hazard”
Ruined, emptied-out towns filled with rusting hulks of their mining past, long-shuttered storefronts, mobile homes twenty years past their expiration date, kudzu-overgrown Little League fields and locals who know they’re trapped even if they don’t know that ATV they just … Continue reading
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N.C. Symphony goes “Psycho?”
What record is sitting on the turntable in Norman Bates’ room on his mother’s motel? Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony. The kinky bugger. He had a Napoleon complex — Lovely Ludwing Van had a flirtation many artsy anti monarchy Europeans shared when … Continue reading
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Netflixable? “Being Eddie” is how Murphy wants you to See Him
Eddie Murphy has a lot to be satisfied with. A gifted mimic turned overnight stand-up star, famous since his teen years on “Saturday Night Live,” a ground-breaking African American superstar of the screen, for decades one of the biggest box … Continue reading
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BOX OFFICE: “Now You See Me” out sprints “Running Man,” “Predator Badlands” drops to third
A franchise revival, a remake and a big sci-fi/monster holdover walk into a bar… This weekend’s box office isn’t one for the record books, as nothing is making Marvel/Pixar/”Avatar” money in a $12-$20 ticket environment. But it does show why … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A Torch and a Card Trick are passed to a new Generation — “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t”
It helps to think of the “Now You See Me” film franchise as a manga that dodged the whole anime series then anime movie “product” assembly line. “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” brought on that epiphany. Revived a … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “The Running Man” Stumbles into a Dead End
About thirty minutes into the Glen Powell/Edgar Wright remake of “The Running Man” I thought “This is kind of working.” I invested in this updating of Stephen King’s dytopian sci-fi horror for the age of ICE, fascism and murderously amoral … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Lesser Lubitsch, a “Heaven Can Wait” (1943) that Bores
When we think of the Hollywood comedies by the great German expat Ernst Lubitsch, we remember Garbo at her drollest, a Bolshevik who falls in love in “Ninotchka,” the doors-slamming-on-Nazis backstage farce “To Be or Not to Be” and the … Continue reading
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