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Movie Preview: A second peek at Daniel Day-Lewis in “Anemone”
Samantha Morton and Sean Bean join the Oscar icon in his big screen comeback, a tale of sibling violence and isolation and the past you “cannot face.” Oct. 3.
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Series Preview: Jason Clarke hunts “The Last Frontier” for
Clarke plays a Federal Marshal hunting for convicts who’ve escaped from the crashed plane that was carrying them in this 10 episode thriller series from Apple. Haley Bennett, Alfre Woodard, Dominic West and Simone Kessell co-star as loved ones, escapees, … Continue reading
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BOX OFFICE: “Him” Underwhelms, “Big Bold Beautiful” bombs, “Demon Slayer” slays by default
Late September turns out to be a pretty bad time to send a football-bashing body horror thriller out into the world. “Him” stars Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers and Julia Fox, and is wearing the “producd by Jordan Peele” badge of … Continue reading
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Tagged anime, box-office, conjuring, downton, film, horror, movie-review, movies, Reviews
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Movie Review: A Slight Flight of Fantasy Fancy billed as “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey”
Pairing up Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell for a big screen fantasy romance doesn’t pay off in “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,” a film that has one or two big moments on its road-trip-romantic “journey,” a little digitally augmented “beauty” … Continue reading
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Tagged colin-farrell, kogonada, margot-robbie, movies, Reviews
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Movie Review: The Deal with the Devils it takes for “Him” to Make it in Pro Football
Pro football, the movie doctor about to take on the institution over the issue of “Concussion” was famously warned, “owns a day of the week. The same day the Church used to own!” “Him” is a horror movie that takes … Continue reading
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Tagged him, horror, jordan-peele, marlon-wayans, tyriq-withers
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Documentary Review: Entrancing “Trains” is a History of Europe through its Rails and Rolling Stock
“Trains,” the new dialogue-free “found footage” documentary by the Polish filmmaker Maciej Drygas, is one of the most original pieces of movie-making you’re likely to run across. Drygas tells a history of Europe through the first half of the 20th … Continue reading
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Tagged documentary-review, europe, history, railroad, the-holocaust, trains, travel, world-war-i
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Movie Review: A Dark Night of “La Dolce Vita” — “Finally Dawn”
Federico Fellini cast a jaded, bemused eye on the postwar Italian decadence and indulgence with “La Dolce Vita,” a cinema classic about a generation just removed from decades of fascism and war partying, reveling in paparazzo-pursued celebrity and an internationally … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Cryptic Creepiness in Cymru (Wales) — “Rabbit Trap”
Existential musings about the nature of sound, past trauma and childlessness occupy the lovely headspace of “Rabbit Trap,” a quiet and obscurant folk horror tale set in 1970s Wales. Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen (“The Alienist”) co-star as a couple … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Thandiwe Newton and Steve Zahn — “Let’s reboot ‘Anaconda'”
Here’s a comic lark of a lark, alleged adults remaking “a movie we loved when we were kids.” A remake about making a remake. A Christmas comedy of the “What could go wrong?” variety. Love that cast. But…snakes?
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Movie Preview: Sweeney is “The Housemaid” to Seyfried — Scary
A job that’s a dangerous exposure to a family’s ugly secrets is the premise of this Dec. 19 release. That Sydney Sweeney is the hardest working woman in show business. She almost managed a movie a month this year. Pairing … Continue reading
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