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Documentary Review: “I Know Catherine, The Log Lady” celebrates a Character and an Actress and her role in The Strange Saga of David Lynch
Here it is, in documentary form, the Greatest “Show Must Go On” Story Ever Told. Richard Green’s “I Know Catherine, The Log Lady” is a moving appreciation of the long life of a working actress, a woman rendered immortal by … Continue reading
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Tagged coulson, david-lynch, film, kyle-maclachlan, log-lady-documentary, mark-frost, movies, nicholas-meyer, television, twin-peaks
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Classic Film Review: History, Classism, War Crimes, Australian Character and a Director’s Intent Collide in “Breaker Morant” (1980)
Australian cinema hadn’t made much of a mark internationally before The Australian New Wave hit in the mid ’70s through the very early ’80s. In a flash, Australian history, culture, character and mores were broadcast to the big wide world … Continue reading
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Tagged australian-culture, australian-heritage, beresford, breaker-moran, bryan-brown, film, movies, Reviews
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Movie Preview: Pacino and Dan Stevens are exorcists in “The Ritual”
Another “true story” exorcism tale, this one co-starring Ashley Greene, Abigail Cowen and Patricia Heaton of “Everybody Loves Raymond.” No. Seriously. June 6.
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Movie Review: Rickards and Lucas tag team for “Queen of the Ring”
“Queen of the Ring” is a two-fisted crowd-pleasing biopic of pioneering “lady wrestler” Mildred Burke, the “Kansas Cyclone” who rose from dropping men to the mat at county fairs and carnivals to become the first Million Dollar Female Athlete as … Continue reading
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Tagged ash-avildsen, josh-lucas, mildred-burke, movies, wrestling
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Movie Preview: Denzel and Spike, “Highest 2 Lowest”
A hardass music mogul faces an old school, off the books ransom/shakedown. Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera and A$AP Rocky also star in Spike’s latest. August 22, from Apple/A24
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Movie Review: A Chinese Cop and Robber bromance — “Hunt the Wicked”
“Hunt the Wicked” is a dopey, cheesy cop-teams-with-a-robber shoot’em-up, punch’em-down, kick’em-where it hurts thriller from China. A serious read on it has to note its tale of official corruption, with a mayor secretly running a narcotics empire under the noses … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Pierce Brosnan, Samuel L. Jackson and I guess Brandon Lessard are “The Unholy Trinity”
“Trinity” is the name of the town in this Western, and a word revered in Spaghetti Western circles thanks to the “They Call Me Trinity” films starring Terrence Hill in the early ’70s. Native American actress Q’orianka Kilcher (“A New … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Marvel’s New “A” Team earns its asterisk — “Thunderbolts*”
It takes a solid hour to get going, and pretty much as long to identify its characters. Good luck if you buy a ticket and show up without more background than you typically need to know for a comic book … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Janney and Cranston head a ’70s small-time “theatre” family where “Everything’s Going to be Great”
Show business at the dinner theater/regional theater level in the ’70s, this one pairs up Oscar winner Allison Janney with her “I, Tonya” screenwriter and Oscar nominee Bryan Cranston as parents of one “Theatre Kid” and his reluctant older brother. … Continue reading
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Documentary Preview: Astronaut, Glass Ceiling Breaker, Heroine, Queer Icon — “Sally” Ride
This overdue bio-doc hits National Geographic on June 16, and rolls onto streamers Disney+ and Hulu June 17.
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