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Movie Preview: Tom Cruise is the pot-bellied Oil Man ordered to Save the World he’s Destroyed — “Digger”
That cast. That director. That gut! This October, we’ve got ourselves a Hail Mary for an Oscar nomination for the movies’ Most Valuable Player.
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Netflixable? Don’t Underestimate “The Marked Woman” Trafficked into Barcelona
A grab bag of thriller tropes and action beats is tossed at another “human trafficking” thriller, this one from Spain, in “The Marked Woman.” We’ve got an amnesiac with Jason Bourne skills. Because one never forgets one’s martial arts training. … Continue reading
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Sam Neill, New Zealand’s Finest: 1947-2026
One of the cinema’s great talents, grand figures and a gentleman in full, Sam Neill has died. He’d fought a deadly cancer off, but that battle must have taken a terrible toll to get him to “cancer free.” He was … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Black Teen faces the trials of being a “Mississippi Scholar”
Earnest, preachy and melodramatic to a fault, “Mississippi Scholar” is exactly the sort of movie that the independent cinema was born to create. Director and co-writer Marcus Bleecker’s film may traffic in tropes and cliches. But it has a vivid … Continue reading
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Tagged civil-rights-drama, deep-south, film, mississippi, movies, ole-miss, racism, Reviews
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Movie Review: Couples Therapy as Comical Cringe Cinema — “The Invite”
On its surface or beneath that surface, “The Invite” is a date movie. So go with your significant other. But speaking from experience, don’t be surprised if the whispered asides — in between elbows in the ribs — go something … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Coming of Age, Female and Korean — “Take Care of My Cat” (2001)
A Korean classic of the pre K-pop explosion, flip-phone era returns to theaters as subtle, sweet and soulful as ever. “Take Care of My Cat” is a young women’s coming-of-age tale, set in the 2001 present, a film that, synth-pop … Continue reading
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Movie Review: New Year’s Babies Seek Love “This Time Next Year”
Somebody had the good sense to cut half an hour off the London romance “This Time Next Year” for its Amazon streaming release. They just didn’t finish the job. It’s a sweet-and-scenic “Hallmark Channel” love story (chaste and slow and … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A Jewish Summer Camp comedy with more “Oys” than Laughs — “The Floaters”
The summer camp comedy “The Floaters” makes its way to theaters after spending the past year making the rounds of the Jewish Film Festival circuit, where it probably should have remained. Foul-mouthed, cliched and inane, it isn’t funny and adds … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Edwards and Sellers crash “The Party” in Hollywood (1968)
A wicked thought crossed my mind midway through re-watching the Blake Edwards/Peter Sellers farce “The Party,” one of three times the great British funnyman donned brownface to play Indian characters. What would have happened had Sellers, a comic legend and … Continue reading
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Tagged blake-edwards, comedy, film, history, indian-stereotypes, mancini, movies, peter-sellers
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Movie Review: Cumming and Kin “Drive Back Home” in The Bad Ol’Days for Canada’s Gays
“Drive Back Home” is a road comedy with a queer history subtext and a hard, melodramatic flourish saved for its finale. It’s about a prodigal son and an estranged family that he fled the moment he was old enough to … Continue reading
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Tagged alan-cumming, canadian-homosexual-persecution, film, gay-rights, movie-review, movies, queer-cinema, Reviews, stonewall
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