Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Movie Preview: Thuggish Cops face the vengeance of “The Roughneck”

Austin North‘s a son on his way to his wedding, veteran heavy Holt McCallany is his ex-con dad, the only guy he can count on when he’s jumped in an Interstate rest area by goons who appear to be above-the-law … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Elizabeth Olsen has to choose Miles Teller or Callum Turner to spend “Eternity” with

A bit conventional for A24, a post mortem love triangle involving the one she spent her life with and the one who got away. Nov. 26, we figure out whom she chooses.

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Movie Preview: Sam Raimi’s putting Rachel McAdams in Peril? “Send Help!”

Trapped in Bro-town, the lone survivor of a corporate jet crash aside from sexist pig boss Dylan O’Brien. McAdams revisits her inner Mean Girl in this one. I’m SERIOUSLY digging the vibe from this Jan. 30 release.

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Movie Review: A Haunted Subway Stop lures the Suicidal to Barcelona — “Last Stop: Rocafort St.”

A great location is wasted and a true piece of Barcelona lore is exploited and clumsily “explained” in “Last Stop: Rocafort St.,” a supernatural thriller from director and co-writer Luis Prieto. There really is a subway stop where suicides are … Continue reading

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Series Preview: Netflix decides the Time is Right for a Presidential Assassination Mini-series — “Death by Lightning”

Let CBS/Paramount/Skydance pay extortion money and ABC/Disney shake in its boots. Netflix defiantly taps into the zeitgeist with a tale of President James Garfield and the guy who stalked and shot him. Michael Shannon plays Garfield, Matthew McFadyen is the … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Ben Kingsley shows up to Scold “Young Washington”

Native tribes, troublesome Frenchies and those imperious Brits face “Young (George) Washington” during the Seven Years War, aka “The French and Indian War” now recognized as the “First World War” ever fought. Way back when Virginia’s young gentleman was just … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: A Long Lost Painting goes to “Auction” in the Most Complicated Ways

A “degenerate” artwork by Egon Schiele, long lost and then found…with a messy stolen-by-Nazis history. Alex Lutz and Léa Drucker are among the stars of a “Who really owns this?” art world saga. This “true story” drama by Pascal Bonitzer … Continue reading

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Classic Film Review: Quintessential Keaton, Parenting with a Feminist Message — “Baby Boom” (1987)

The death of Diane Keaton over the weekend had a lot of us poking around streaming services, hunting for something to remind us of what made the Oscar winner an icon of her era. We settled into “Baby Boom” in … Continue reading

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Movie Review: A Life Shaped by Burns, the Bible, Baseball and Jack Buck — “Soul on Fire”

“Soul on Fire” is a touching faith-based bio-pic that pushes all the right emotional buttons. It rarely misses a beat and never misses a button. It’s about a child burned nearly to a crisp who survives through perseverance and a … Continue reading

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Movie Review — “Tron: Ares” — All Lit Up and No Place to Go

“Tron: Ares” is a shiny, shambolic bauble, a film of CGI red neon streaks that no longer obsesses about taking us inside the electronic video game metaverse, but with bringing the grim, unemotional and “programmed” ethos of the electronic ether … Continue reading

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