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Movie Preview: Hal Hartley’s still around, figuring out “Where to Land”
A filmmaker of that Henry Jaglom/Tom DiCillo/Nicole Holofcener generation of indies serves up a story of a former rom-com director who finds himself applying to work at a cemetery. Bill Sage stars, with Gia Crovatin, veteran heavy Robert John Burke … Continue reading
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BOX OFFICE: “Weapons” weaponized, “Freakier Friday” brings in the Jamie Lee/Lindsay Lo loyalists
These days, when a horror movie hits, it HITS. “Sinners” and “Final Destination” now have a third over-performing horror blockbuster in their 2025 ranks. “Weapons,” the latest from “Barbarian” actor turned director Zack Cregger, is rolling in good reviews and … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Siblings Josh Gad and Kaya Scodelario find a body in Mom’s Basement, one of the trials of “Adulthood”
Gad plays a screenwriter — “I wrote for two seasons on ‘Blue Bloods’” — who ponders who killed somebody and buried them in the walls of the house he grew up in. His sister is just a tad freaked out … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Dame Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Sir Ben Kingsley head “The Thursday Murder Club”
Those Brits and their OAP murder mystery solvers. Based on a sort of Agatha Christie-lite novel, this looks cute. A couple of Oscar winners and an ex James Bond gives it cachet. Celia Imrie is the “new” recruit to this … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Michael Douglas is a grandpa remembering his colorful past, “Looking Through Water”
David Morse plays Grandpa’s avid angler dad in these reminiscences, with Michael Stahl David, Ximena Romo, Walter Scobell and Cameron Douglas also on board. This fishing yarn, set in Belize, is a Good Deeds Entertainment release slated to come out … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Clever clever horror, “Weapons,” Son of “Barbarian”
Glancing back at my review of “Barbarian,” the sinister, smart and sometimes funny blend of scary and silly that became actor-turned-writer/director Zack Cregger’s breakout movie a couple of years back, I’m tempted to repeat myself. He got “the simple things” … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Jamie Lee and Lindsay reach for a “Freakier Friday”
It’s adorable that Jamie Lee Curtis spent some of her Oscar-winner capital rejoining Lindsay Lohan for another round of “Freaky Friday” body-switching hijinx. And it’s grand that Lohan survived her most problematic years and that Netflix brought her career back … Continue reading
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It is sick sick SICK to open “Freaky Friday” the same day as “Weapons”
I’m just saying.
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Series Review: Momoa’s “Shogun” sized epic of Hawai’i’s struggle to unite — “Chief of War”
Jason Momoa had to play “Aquaman” a bunch of times, put in his time in “Dune” and “Fast and Furious” movies and muscle through a season of “Game of Thrones” to build up the clout it took to get “Chief … Continue reading
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Tagged apple-tv, hawaii, hawaiian-history, jason-momoa, native-conflict, spanish-history
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Movie Preview: Showing “Him” the Horror of Pro Football’s Deal with the Devil
Marlon Wayans explains the rules, the deal, to Tyriq Withers in this Jordan Peele produced allegory about The Game that Ate Sundays and what it really costs those who play it. “What are you willing to SACRIFICE?” “EVERY-thing!” Take that … Continue reading
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