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BOX OFFICE: “Regretting You” edges “Black Phone 2” in battles for scrap, “Bugonia” underwhelms, The Boss goes Bust
Halloween, The World Series, no kiddie film with any traction, no fresh horror that gets attention, no thrillers or comic book releases and “Wicked” is waiting until Thanksgiving. That makes for a very empty cineplex on the first weekend of … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Farrell hedges his bets on “Ballad of a Small Player”
The latest turn in the twisty, quixotic career of Colin Farrell is a surreal and supernatural gambling tale of one not-quite-posh poseur’s days of reckoning when every debt, every losing streak, every health problem and every crime comes due. “Ballad … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Nic Cage is a father trying to understand the powers and tests facing “The Carpenter’s Son”
A test of belief faith-based thriller, with Noah Jupe in the title role and Nicolas Cage as The Carpenter. Looks amazing. Nov. 14.
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Movie Review: Yorgos and Emma and Jesse, lost in “Bugonia”
The latest from the challenging and celebrated filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos might be his most on point satire yet. The director of “The Favorite” and “Poor Things” addresses the intellectual disconnect of modern discourse, the impatient and sometimes brusque way the … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Every Heist needs “The Mastermind” to Plan It
Grey skies, a “cool jazz” score and sketchy characters are selling points of “The Mastermind,” a ’70s period piece infused with the “grit” aficionados associate with the films of that benighted decade. It looks the way fall thrillers, even dryly … Continue reading
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Movie preview: On the road in North Africa, Hunting a Missing Daughter — “Sirat”
A Cannes darling gets a November 14 “qualifying” release for awards season. Wider release early next year if awards rain down on this Spanish thriller from Oliver Laxe.
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Movie Preview: Skarsgård, Pacino and Colman Domingo in Gus Van Sant’s “Dead Man’s Wire”
A hostage thriller based on a true story about a guy with a beef with a mortgage broker. Talk about timely. And an anti-hero we can all get behind. Myha’la and Cary Elwes also star in this ’70s period piece … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Black and White Deadpan from the Golden Age of “Indie” — “Down by Law” (1986)
Memory always gets the last cut in editing any beloved classic film we embraced, way back when. I recall the totality of writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s work in his indie make-or-break years, the 1980s — the impromptu road trip to Florida … Continue reading
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Have you donated to Wikipedia this year?
Wikipedia, the secondary/overview font of much of the “knowledge” available on the Internet, is 24 years old this year. Growing pains and legitimate complaints lodged against its “crowdsourced” biographies, histories, science and facts in its early years notwithstanding, it’s endured … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A San Fran Romance with Wrenching — “Maintenance Required”
“Maintenance Required” is a gear-grinding rom-com that tries to blend car repair and romance between two good looking mechanics who meet on an online vintage Ford Bronco restoration forum. That’s not a terrible idea, nor is the notion that Charlotte … Continue reading
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