Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

RIP Graham Greene: Actor who humorously humanized Native Americans on Screen dies at 73

Damn. Graham Greene died. He was one of my favorite character actors, a stoic and noble but more often lighthearted presence in films such as “Dances with Wolves” and on TV (“Northern Exposure,””Longmire,” “Tulsa King”). An Oneida Indian, he was … Continue reading

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Documentary Review: A Silent Saga of Celluloid, Cinema and Yukon History — “Dawson City: Frozen Time”

A mesmirizing movie of film, pop culture and Canadian history, “Dawson City: Frozen Time” slipped by many of us when it earned film festival circuit and limited release back in 2017. But its beauty and breathtaking ambition make it a … Continue reading

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Series Preview: Star on-the-rise Glen Powell goes…to Hulu? “Chad Powers”

We’re going to school of how the path to stardom in the streaming era has evolved and splintered in the “White Lotus/Stranger Things” era Sydney Sweeney stands out in a streaming series, blows up in a “Much Ado About Nothing” … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Still Married, Still Doomed, “The Roses” (Colman and Cumberbatch) War Again

The 36th wedding anniversary is called “The bone-china anniversary,” and no, I’m not just “having a laugh” as the Brits say. I looked it up. That’s not a very flattering label to slap on “The Roses,” a remake of “The … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Austin Butler loses a Kidney — “Caught Stealing”

New York, 1998 — not the “Seinfeld/Friends” version. The last video stores cling to life. The last pay phones stand as landmarks in the shadows of The World Trade Center. It’s still a “Warriors” city, even though Giuliani still has … Continue reading

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Classic Film Review: Seminal Cinema — The Exquisite “Ju Dou” (1990) is Restored

The “Fifth Generation” of alumni of China’s Beijing Film Academy first made their marks at home and abroad with two ’80s films — Chen Kaige’s “Yellow Earth”(1984) and Zhang Yimou’s “Red Sorghum” (1988). The color in their titles was a … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Driver, Bialik, Rampling, Cate, Indya and Waits in Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother”

A great cast adorns this droll holiday film about family from the King of Deadpan, Jim Jarmusch.

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BOX OFFICE: “Weapons” outdraws “Jaws” to Win Labor Day Weekend — “Caught Stealing” opens better than “The Roses”

Every now and then, studios remember that A) audiences come to the movies for the shared experience of living through a film together and B) that they have a back catalog of titles sure to draw a crowd of fellow … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Resisting the Nazis, weighing “Truth & Treason” in an Angel Studios release

The fanbase of Angel Studios lined up around the block for “Sound of Freedom,” a ham-fisted child trafficking “true story” based on the declarations of a soundly discredited “crusader” and starring Mr. “Passion of the Christ,” Jim Caviezel. But the … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Emma and Jesse and Yorgos — “Bugonia”

Radicalized cranks kidnap a corporate queenpin. What? No dancing? Emma always dances for Yorgos Lanthimos! Oct. 24.

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