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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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Movie Review: Channing Tatum Charms the Socks off Kirsten Dunst, and us as “Roofman”
A dopey “on-the-spectrum” crook on the lam plot and two movie stars who know how to work a closeup headline the charms of the delightful and just dark enough “Roofman,” a caper comedy where the real caper is getting away … Continue reading
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Tagged ben-mendelsohn, channing-tatum, kirsten-dunst, movies, roofman
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Oft imitated, never bettered, Diane Keaton: 1946-2025
Diane Keaton has died. And good heavens, how do you even BEGIN an appreciation of this Oscar winning icon’s career? She came to fame as Woody Allen’s muse, enjoyed a career that lasted three full and fulfilling acts and lived … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Young Germans use “Free Will” to see the line between “Truth & Treason”
It’s often not the strongest, the toughest or wisest among us who have the courage and common sense to know the difference between right and wrong, who have the guts to do something about injustice when the unjust have brainwashed … Continue reading
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Tagged angel-studios, books, faith-based-film-review, fascism, film, german-martryr, movies
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Documentary Review — “John Candy: I Like Me”
Friends, acquaintances and fans still get choked up when the subject of the late Canadian comic wonder John Candy comes up. I’d be talking to Richard Lewis or Ron Howard or Hanks or somebody who worked with Candy and out … Continue reading
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Tagged aykroyd, comedy, documentary-review, film, john-candy, movies, writing
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Netflixable? Who’s a Good (Brazilian) Boy? “Caramelo”
“Caramelo” is a boy-and-his-dog-tale that’s as adorable as it is sentimental and predictable. Writer-direector Diego Freitas serves up a near perfectly executed São Paulo story of a mischievous stray, a young chef and the ways they connect when one of … Continue reading
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Tagged brazilian-food, dog-movie, feel-good-film, film, movie-review, movies, netflix-comedy, sao-paolo
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Movie Preview: J. Lawrence, R. Patts, S. Spacek, L. Stanfield and N. Nolte — “My Love”
Love and madness and violence and an all-star cast and director Lynne Ramsey (“We Need to Talk About Kevin”) decamped to Montana for this thriller. It’s based on an Ariana Harwicz novel. Mubi has “Die My Love, so it’s kind … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Kevin James strikes again! “Playdate”
Alan Ritchson’s the dad out-of-work Kevin James should never set up a you-know-what date with. Sarah Chalke, Alan Tudyk, Isla Fisher and Stephen Root star in this No. 12 comedy coming to Amazon Prime. The director of “Let’s Be Cops” … Continue reading
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Movie Review: New York “Neighbors” and Theatre “Types” collide in “The French Italian”
“The French Italian” is a dizzy comedy that loses its fizz when it wears out the possibilties of its original premise, but gets some of it back by finding a few other screwy directions to take us. Writer-director Rachel Wolther’s … Continue reading
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Tagged food, gen-x, gen-z, movies, new-york, rent-control, saturday-night-live
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Movie Preview: The Fascist Wet Dream that is “King Ivory”
Masked and murderous commando cops fight drugs and drug lords in the hellhole of Tulsa. Wonder why the National Guard hasn’t been called into Oklahoma? James Badge Dale and Ben Foster star in what turned out to be Graham Greene’s … Continue reading
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