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Movie Review: A Mother’s Past and Present Blur “When Fall is Coming”
François Ozon has to be the French cinema’s premier poker player. With his genre-bending/expectations-upending dramas (“Everything Went Fine”), dramedies (“In the House”), feminist comedies (“Potiche”) and musical drama mysteries (“8 Women”), you’d hate to be seated at the same table … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Romance? All it takes is “You, Me & Tuscany”
Universal is so underwhelmed by the cast of this spring rom-com that they don’t list any of their names in the first trailer for it. That’s “Little Mermaid” Halle Bailey and “Bridgerton” hunk Regé-Jean Page as the meet-by-accident, lies and … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Aussie Recruits face a “Beast of War” before they ever face Combat
“Beast of War” sets up as a fine if not wholly novel approach to the WWII combat “grunts” journey long before it settles into its true destiny — a shark attack tale. Writer-director Kiah Roache-Turner trots through the tropes of … Continue reading
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Tagged aborigines-on-film, australia, australian-horror, shark-attack-movie, timor-sea, wwii-in-the-south-pacific
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Classic Film Review: A Reporter digs into government scandals real and staged — “Defence of the Realm” (1985)
It’s odd to think of the ’80s as a movie decade in which we can bandy the phrase “They don’t make’em like that any more” about. Hollywood’s blockbuster obsession almost wholly took over, and the roman numeralization of cinema “franchises” … Continue reading
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Tagged 80s-films, british-film, classic-cinema, david-puttnam, film, gabriel-byrne, greta-scaachi, movie, movies
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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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Tagged addiction, alex-roe, appalachia, kentucky, movie-review, oxy, sosie-bacon, writing
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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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Tagged comedy, dave-chappelle, eddie-murphy, film, movies, Reviews
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