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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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Movie Review: Woe oh Woe for this “Juliet & Romeo”
“Juliet & Romeo” isn’t an “updating” of Shakespeare’s immortal star-crossed lovers. It’s still set in the Renaissance, with doublets and dirks and dueling, a prince trying to end an ancient family feud, with a not-quite-helpful friar, nurse, etc. It features … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Dorky Swedes “Watch the Skies” as they close in on UFO answers
You’re going to have to make an effort to find a theater (or very soon a streamer) playing “Watch the Skies.” And the whole point of this review is to ensure that sci-fi fans make the effort. Smuggled into cinemas … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Hurry Up Tomorrow” because this Weeknd outing can’t end soon enough
In “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” the Grammy Award winning pop star The Weeknd takes another stab at screen stardom, playing a troubled and lonely version of himself who finds out — the hard way — how “personal” some of his fans … Continue reading
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