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Classic Film Review: Luis Buñuel serves up Colonialism’s “Death in the Garden” (1956)
Of all the “star entrances” the classic cinema has given us, from the “Stagecoach” rolling up on stranded John Wayne to Orson Welles, glimpsed in the shadows in “The Third Man” and Marlene Dietrich, dolled up and ready to sing … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Sofia Carson indulges her dead mother’s insistence on finishing “The Life List”
The one real surprise in the Netflix romance “The Life List” is a somewhat logical twist in the finale, one that finishes this Sofia Carson star vehicle with a solid-enough tug at the heartstrings. It doesn’t wipe away the watchable … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A Transgender Journey through the storm-traumatized Philippines — “Asog”
On the many islands and languages present in the Philippines, there are a couple of widely accepted words for transgender and transexual — bakla and asog or “tomboy. That suggests that there’s less mussing about with pronouns and somewhat less … Continue reading
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BOX OFFICE: “Snow White” can’t fight off “A Working Man,” “Woman in the Yard” embarrasses “Death of a Unicorn”
Disney’s big-but-hardly-huge live action “Snow White” cleared the $50 million mark on its first week in release, and should add another $13 million+ on its second weekend, based on Friday’s turnout. But will it remain the top draw at the … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Hiddleston stars in “The Life of Chuck” for Stephen King and Mike Flanagan
Mia Sara, Chewitel Ejiofor, Karren Gillan and Mark Hamill also star in this “Truman Show” vibe “genre bender” from the director of “Doctor Sleep” and the guy who wrote the book “Doctor Sleep” was based on. An “ordinary guy” named … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Satire that Doesn’t Satisfy — “Death of a Unicorn”
Could it be that “Death of a Unicorn” isn’t as clever as the folks who made seemed to believe? Oh it certainly could. What was sold in the trailers as a dark, droll and possibly gory farce raised expectations. And … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: DiCaprio, Penn, Benicio and Teyana in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another”
“The Revolution” doesn’t begin here. It’s ongoing. Well, it stopped for a while. And now we’ve got to “get the band back together” to save one of their own. Oscar winners DiCaprio, Penn and del Toro are joined by Regina … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Jason Statham takes care of business in Ayer’s “A Working Man”
The Brotherhood, the elders of the Russian mafia in America, solemnly gather for a war council in Chicago. “We are facing a devil,” the mobster called Symon (Andrej Kaminsky) intones. And those gathered round him pause to hastily themselves — … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Russian Journalist tries to tell the truth about Putinism — ” Words of War”
Lot of Brits in this May 2 wide release. Truth in a time of conflict and fascist propaganda comes at a cost.
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Movie Review: Tony Jaa & Co. bring on the brawls in “Striking Rescue”
Muay Thai master Tony Jaa is back in action in “Striking Rescue,” a clumsily titled, ineptly subtitled and generically plotted Chinese thriller where the fights are to die for, the characters and plot not so much. Twenty-plus years since his … Continue reading
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