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Documentary Review — Home Movies as Comedy Couples Counseling, “Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost”
They were the hottest comic “double act” of their day. Stiller & Meara were never as hip as Nichols and May, but reliably funny, TV (“family audience”) friendly and just edgy enough to give the live New York studio audiences … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Steve Coogan’s a World Cup coach trapped in a debacle in “Saipan”
Éanna Hardwicke plays Irish star player Roy Keane, and Coogan’s the manager/coach dealing with divas and bungles in prep for the 2002 World Cup, putting the Irish team through its paces in “the place that launched (bombers that delivered) “the … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “The Astronaut” Came Home with More than She Bargained For
The new sci-fi thriller “The Astronaut” is a somewhat ungainly marriage of “Alien” and “E.T.” It begins with mystery and danger and the best of intentions. But the longer the marriage goes on, the worse things get. Kate Mara has … Continue reading
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Documentary Preview: Ben Stiller, his wife, sister and others remember his parents — “Stiller and Meara: Nothing is Lost”
Got Apple TV+? This new doc by Ben Stiller is about his parents, one of the great comedy acts of their era, mught be reason enough to subscribe. Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller were married comic foils playing married comic … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Black Phone 2,” a Busy Signal with Static
It’s helpful to remember 2021’s “The Black Phone” when pondering all the things that are different about the sequel, “Black Phone 2.” Because many of those differences point to why the second film spun off a Joe Hill (Stephen King’s … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Have and Have-Not are flipped by a Guardian Angel with “Good Fortune” at his disposal
Keanu Reeves brings an offhand charm to his guardian angel turn in “Good Fortune,” Aziz Ansari’s season-neutral “A Christmas Carol” parable about America in general and LA in particular as a land of have-a-lots and have-nots. Whatever inspiration the comic … Continue reading
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Documentary Preview: Eddie Vedder Goes Home and Goes Solo in Search of a Cure — “Matter of Time”
This is a solo concert film by the Peal Jam frontman, with the performances filmed in Seattle, on behalf of charity aimed at finding a cure for epidermolysis bullosa. The pitch is that this is more about the disease and … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Keira puts to Sea Again to Solve the Mystery of “The Woman in Cabin 10”
A novel that wears its Agatha Christie antecedents entirely too obviously becomes a Keira Knightley star vehicle in “The Woman in Cabin 10,” a film whose producers were clever enough and careless enough to cast Guy Pearce as her foil. … Continue reading
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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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