Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Looking for a spooky tune to open your horror movie? “Built on Bones,” by Emily Scott Robinson

Mournful, ethereal and chilling. Hey, you could do a lot worse than set the tone with this under your opening credits.

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Movie Review: “All Sorts” populate this bizarre satire of cubicle life

If “satire,” as playwright George S. Kaufman famously opined, “is what closes Saturday night,” where does “surrealism” sit on your average film consumer’s palate? Writer-director J. Rick Castaneda’s oddball career of web series (“Coma, Period,” which helped launch Rob Delaney) … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Short of Cash, “Dead for a Dollar”

Walter Hill has been one of the modern cinema’s true masters of the Western film. He directed “The Long Riders,” “Geronimo,” and “Wild Bill,” and he directed the pilot of the TV series “Wild Bill” helped inspire, “Deadwood,” as well … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Connection in a time of COVID — Peter Hedges’ “The Same Storm”

Twenty four characters’ stories telling of life going on during lockdown, this stars Sandra Oh, Mary-Louis Parker, Elaine May, Moses Ingram, Raul Castillo, Don Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt and others. Another “Zoom” reliant shutdown movie, but this one scripted and … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Livestreaming Goofball meets his found-footage match in “Deadstream”

“Deadstream” is a genial-enough send-up of “found footage” horror, a gory comedy built around a grating streaming TV stunt host whose latest clickbait is a night spent in a haunted house. As Shawn Ruddy, host of “Wrath of Shawn” videos … Continue reading →

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“Big Short” and “Don’t Look Up” director makes fake “Chevron Ad”

Adam McKay takes a shot at Big Oil in this 1:49 second environmental satire.

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Movie Review: A story of divorce, wildlife smuggling and animal training in Oman — “The Falconer”

“The Falconer” is an engaging account of a true story that manages to be uplifting despite a seriously unsavory wildlife smuggling and selling element. Set in Oman, this tale of two friends — one Middle Eastern, the other a Westerner … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A rural “urban legend” returns — “Jeepers Creepers: Reborn”

There isn’t much mystery or suspense in “Jeepers Creepers: Reborn,” a horror movie whose characters are wholly aware there have been three other films based on this rural Deep South “urban legend.” A bunch of them even cosplay the demon … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Chalamet’s here, “Bones and All”

Moody, sinister and tense. Leonard C. does that for you, and your movie trailer. The film looks good, too. Nov. 18.

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Movie Preview: Ethan Hawke and Ewan McGregor play half brothers — “Raymond and Ray”

It takes a funeral to bring these two together. Apple TV has this one. Looks fun.

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