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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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Neflixable? “Enola Homes 3” Beats a Dead Horse
The bare minimum you expect from a sleuthing action comedy of the “Anybody Named Holmes” variety is that it hold your interest. Netflix’s “Enola Holmes 3” falls short of even that low bar. It’s got a wedding and a few … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, fiction, books, millie-bobby-brown, henry-cavill, ebook, enola
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Movie Review: Striving and Social Climbing, “Young Washington” takes the Shape of the Man He Became
Stately, staid and yet somehow still satisfying, “Young Washington” is a (mostly) by-the-book biography of the early life that shaped The Father of Our Country. It’s well-cast and handsomely mounted, and only falls into hagiography — rather obviously and clumsily … Continue reading
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Tagged american-history, american-independence, andy-serkis, ben-kingsley, french-and-indian-wars, george-washington, kelsey-grammer, movie-review, virginia-history
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Documentary Review: “Chris and Martina: The Final Set” of a Love Match built on Sportsmanship
The recent news that former tennis champ Chris Evert’s cancer has returned for the third time adds more real-life poignance to a lovely new documentary about her and her longtime foe and friend, Martina Navratilova. “Chris & Martina: The Final … Continue reading
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Tagged breast-cancer, chris-evert, history, martina, netflix, ovarian-cancer, tennis, writing
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Documentary Review: Intentionally forgotten Lebanon — “Do You Love Me”
In Lebanon, an opening title tells us, “contemporary history is not taught in schools.” Basically, a half century of intermittent bloody unrest has been erased. The endless Israeli incursions and invasions? The civil war Israel triggered with the refugee dislocations … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War”
These are not the days for “Patriot Games.” The world we live in’s realities long ago outstripped Tom Clancy’s post-Cold War fantasies of a righteous but compromised America and the West and the mythic “surgical strikes” it takes to keep … Continue reading
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Tagged film, jack-ryan, krasinski, movies, Reviews, sienna-miller, tom-clancy
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Netflixable? “Little Brother” makes Cena Look Small
Netflix has made inroads in horror and begun to make a mark in prestige pcitures. But they cornered the market on teen rom-coms a while back. And now, years after signing Adam Sandler, his family and hangers-on, they’re going all … Continue reading
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