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Movie Preview: Richard Linklater and Zoey Deutch remember the “Breathless” French “New Wave” — “Nouvelle Vague”
“Breathless” didn’t start the cinema and world pop culture’s youth movement. It didn’t launch the French “New Wave” that brought Jean-Luc Godard, Truffaut and others to fame and glory as they upended cinema conventions back in 1959. But Richard Linklater … Continue reading
Movie Preview: The Horror of Summer — “Bring Her Back”
Sony is handling this A24 release in some territories, a bloody tale of a disturbed, grieving foster mother (Sally Hawkins) who needs foster kids to help her revive a dead child. Icky? May 30 in North America, released over the … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: MGM’s Blunt, if Belated Warning about Fascism — “The Mortal Storm”
The first time I pondered the “coincidence” of a classic film turning up on my TV at a particular moment in history was coming home from school in the ’70s and seeing the Cold War era gem “Seven Days in … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Sydney Sweeney’s committed a crime, Mom Julianne Moore “took care of it” — “Echo Valley”
Yes, this trailer to the June 13 Apple TV+ release pretty much gives away the whole show. It’s an 83 minute long thriller, guys. TOO MUCH PLOT is spoiler alerted in this. Domhnall Gleeson, Fiona Shaw and Kyle MacLachlan join … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: An extended family of French descendents learn about their shared ancestor and 19th century life — “Colours of Time”
This French period piece/fantasy stars and Suzanne Lindon, Julia Piaton, Zinedine Soualem, Cécile de France and Paul Kircher. François Berléand plays Victor Hugo, which tells us where director and co-writer Cédric Klapisch (“The Spanish Apartment,” “Rise,” “Chinese Puzzle,” “Family Resemblences”) … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Sydney Sweeney, Halsey, Paul Walter Hauser, Eric Dane and a stolen piece of “Americana”
This gonzo Lionsgate release is getting “early Tarantino” hype coming off the film festival circuit. A Lakota Ghost Shirt is the MacGuffin, with characters stealing it, shooting each other over it with guns or bows and arrows, and generally making … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Bloody, Somnambulent horror from Indonesia — “Soul Reaper”
This looks different. Well Go USA has this thriller from the director of “Ali Topan” slated for June 17 release.
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Documentary Review — “Garbo: Where Did You Go?” fills in Gaps in Greta Garbo’s Story
Some decades ago, I was ensconed in the archives of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, researching one of the university’s most famous alumni for a news article appreciation of his life and film career on the 100th anniversary of … Continue reading
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Tagged clarence-brown, cukor, dietrich, film, garbo, joan-crawford, movies, pop-culture, Reviews, welles
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Netflixable? “Meet the Khumalos”
If you’re looking for a South African comedy, in English with sprinklings of Zulu, about feuding neighbors whose hostilities escalate when their children fall in love you could do worse that “Meet the Khumalos.” It’s so generic and derivative of … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Existential Angst, Midlife Crisis and a Testing of Manhood face “The Surfer”
Nicolas Cage has been making “push me over the edge” B and C movies for so long that all longtime fans have to hear is a title — “The Surfer,” for instance — to guess the movie built around it. … Continue reading
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