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Snow day? Cinema day!
Too snowy and muddy to cut down a Christmas tree from the farm. Might as well head to Durham to see “Hamnet,” “Sentimental Value” isn’t getting enough showings to make it convenient. Maybe something else. “Fackham Hall?”
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Movie Review: Injured on a Hike, Pondering what it means “To Die Alone”
Say this for the indie thriller “To Die Alone.” It certainly punches above its weight in setting, scenery and the way cinematographer Shelby Lee Parks filmed it. Drone shots that traverse a sea of fir trees far into the horizon, … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, hiking, horror, indie-cinema, mount-shasta-movie, movie-review
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Movie Review: Taipei’s a Challenge for a young “Left Handed Girl”
The team that made the American underclass gems “Take Out,” “Tangerine” and “The Florida Project” turn their eyes to Tapei for their latest, a story of a child growing up in economic hardship and family dysfunction in the anything-for-sale markets … Continue reading
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Tagged film, janel-tsai, movies, Reviews, sean-baker, shih-ching-tsou, taipei
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Movie Review: Is “The Linguini Incident” (1991) a “Forgotten Gem” of Bowie and Rosanna Arquette?
Barely released in theaters when it was finished and tossed out on home video in a flash, “The Linguini Incident” took on a cult film afterlife thanks to its cast — David Bowie co-stars with Rosanna Arquette, Buck Henry, Andre … Continue reading
Movie Review: A Dark, Cryptic ’60s Spy Spoof from Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Italy — “Reflection in a Dead Diamond”
The descriptor “spoof” carries certain implications and obligations with it, chief among them “wit.” French filmmakers Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani have a way with a witty title (“Let the Corpse Tan”). And their early ’60s spy spoof “Reflection in … Continue reading
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Tagged bruno-forzani, fabio-testi, film, movie-review, movies
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Classic Film Review: A Holiday Favorite finds Renewed Relevance — “Trading Places”(1983)
The “greed is good” ’80s and the vast wealth gap of today created by the “trickle down economics” of the Reagan administration was just kicking in when“Trading Places,” an anarchic comedy about the greedy getting their just deserts, hit theaters. … Continue reading
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Tagged christmas, dan-aykroyd, denholm-elliott, eddie-murphy, film, film-nudity, jamie-lee-curtis, ralph-bellamy, reaganomics, trading-places
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Movie Review: The Newly-Homeless Experience Life with “No Address”
“No Address” is a sentimental, well-intentioned melodrama about homelessness in America that doesn’t quite deliver on its “There but for the grace of one or two missed paychecks go I” premise. It’s not exactly a “faith-based” drama, though visits a … Continue reading
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Tagged ashanti, beverly-dangelo, homelessness-in-california, movie-review, sacramento, william-baldwin, writing
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Netflixable? “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery”
Ordinarily when I review a film in theaters, I label that as “movie review.” Even when that film is heading to Netflix after a short theatrical run, Search Engine Optimization demands that you call it such. But for most Netflix … Continue reading
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Tagged brolin, daniel-craig, film, glenn-close, knives-out, movies, netflix, netflixable, rian-johnson
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Movie Review: “Mad Max” Wars Over Water in the West — “The Protector”
It’s not quite worth waiting for the appearance of the late great Native American acting icon Graham Greene in “The Protector,” one of the last films he finished before dying last September. As the reservation leader Brand, Greene is world … Continue reading
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Netflixable? “Jingle Bell Heist,” a Caper Comedy Crying Out for Cute
“Jingle Bell Heist” is an over-plotted, under-charmed rom-com about robbing from the thieving, unaccountable rich and giving to the under-insured. In soft drink terms, it’s a Diet Coke that’s gone flat — familiar, not particularly surprising or the least bit … Continue reading
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