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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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Netflixable? German soldier loses her son in “Exterritorial” territory — the U.S. Embassy
Welcome to the golden age of America as Outlaw State, as depicted in international action cinema. “Exterritorial” has Americans as treasonous allies, corrupt drug smugglers and heartless bureaucrats — kidnapping children and Belarussian refugees, selling “intel” to common enemies and … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: “The Return of Martin Guerre,” the Original “Deep Fake”(1982)
Before he became the French poster boy for “sexual predator,” Gerard Depardieu was the unlikeliest screen sex symbol of his era. Burly to the point of huge, played a soulful “Cyrano” and took on Jean Valjean in a TV version … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Juggling career, offspring and Elderly Parents demands “Relative Control”
Teri Polo of the “Meet the Parents” franchise takes on a far more realistic parental management situation in “Relative Control,” a light dramedy about all the juggling that goes on when one’s parents, love life, career and adult but adrift … Continue reading
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Tagged crisis-at-the-border, crisis-at-the-border, eldercare-issues, fake-right-wing-news, fake-right-wing-news, film-review, gerentology, meet-the-parents, parental-care, Reviews, teri-polo
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Documentary Preview: “Bono” in Black and White — “Stories of Surrender”
A different backing ensemble, with strings. A few hits. A few stories. Could be revealing, or another venture that gives the haters the fodder they need to go on living. Apple TV+, May 30.
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Movie Preview: Many Stars signed on as Cops, Robbers and Improv Comics in “Deep Cover”
Bryce Dallas Howard, Orlando Bloom and Nick Mohammed are improvisers recruited to infiltrate the mob, with Sean Bean, Paddy Considine and Ian McShane as cops and bad guys. It’s a British production, with Brit director and screenwriters. The “Safety Not … Continue reading
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Movie Review: An Austro-Hungarian Aristocrat’s Daughter falls for “The Chambermaid”
The last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire are the setting of “The Chambermaid,” a same sex/class-crossing romance that blossoms in World War I era Prague. This sumptuous Czech/Slovak co-production, performed in Czech, Slovakian, Hungarian and German, is “Downton Abbey” with … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” see me get old
Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Woody, Dave Franco et al welcoming Morgan Freeman, Daniel Radcliffe and Rosamund Pike for this sequel to the 2013 sleeper hit, due out in Nov. Justice Smith is in it, if that seals the deal for you.
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Movie Preview: Dwayne Johnson wears prosthetics as UFC’s “The Smashing Machine”
I know it’s an A24 release rolling out Oct. 3, on the cusp of “awards season.” But how does Emily Blunt agree to co-star — again — with Dwayne “The Human Hemorhoid” Johnson without Disney money? An early UFC history … Continue reading
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Netflixable? A mad bomber plots a “Bullet Train Explosion”
A 1975 Japanese thriller titled “Bullet Train,” about a high-speed passenger train with a bomb on board, one that will explode if the train slows beyond a triggered speed, inspired the bomb-on-a-bus thriller “Speed,” its sequel and lots of imitators. … Continue reading
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