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Sony works works works its Spidery side of the Marvel street, adding this to “Spider-Man” in all its incarnations (and “Venom” too). A paramedic who starts “having visions” and takes a turn to the superheroic. I like the way the … Continue reading →

“Forever” is a Swedish coming-of-age-in-soccer drama that breaks just enough of the conventions of the genre to feel new and novel. There is a third act “Big Game,” but is takes a back seat to the human drama playing out … Continue reading →

Before you write a script or even a plot, you have a “conceit,” and before you can make your movie, you have a “pitch.” And it’d better be a killer. That’s all “It’s a Wonderful Knife” is — a conceit … Continue reading →

So he needs the guy’s ex wife to ID…the rest of the body so’s he can get paid? A hitman that long in the tooth is going to forget things. Not sure if and when this will see the light … Continue reading →

No contest, right? An Iron Man (ish?) competition involving a hyper-competitive guy and his team picks up a stray along the way. Hankies come out all over. Bear Grylls cameo to follow.

There’s a corner of America that likes its murder mysteries convoluted and its detectives gathering all the suspects in a drawing room to go through them, one by one, in unmasking “The Real Killer.” But they probably wouldn’t appreciate the … Continue reading →

This stylish looking British psychological thriller looks to have been filmed in the Med, and stars Natalia Cordova-BuckleyR, yan Kwanten and Virginia Madsen. Dec. 8, “The Portrait” is unveiled.

Eli Roth’s back to take more perverse pleasure in pain — his movies’ “victims,” and that of viewers laughing at the gore but grimacing at the cruelty — with a holiday treat titled “Thanksgiving.” At least with “Thanksgiving,” a splatter … Continue reading →

The world of “The Hunger Games” comes rushing back to you — well, sauntering back to you — not that long into “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.” It’s been eight years since the “original trilogy” wrapped … Continue reading →

Orlandoans– some of us anyway — avoid “The Parks” for their traffic, the crowds, the long trips from parking deck to “park,” the prices and, as a local DJ’s hit single described, “God—-d Tourists.” But it’s rainy and gloomy. There’s … Continue reading →