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Movie Review: A Pop Music Fable trapped in YA Sci-Fi Land –“O’Dessa”
Generations raised on stories about this or that world/future/universe saved by “The Chosen One” deserve a musical about this post-religion/post Potter fantasy in the flesh. So here’s “O’Dessa,” a close-to-the-present-day dystopian fable about a “Seventh Son” who happens to be … Continue reading
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Tagged kelvin-harrison-jr, movies, sadie-sink, stranger-things, ya-musical, ya-sci-fi
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Movie Review: Numbing even without the violence –“Novocaine”
It begins with sentiment, introducing a character worthy of our sympathy, if not our pity. There’s an emotional tug to the scenes in which the guy with the genetic malady connects with that cute co-worker who seems to “get” him. … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A Treasure Trove of Secrets are concealed via a “Black Bag”
You don’t see men in turtlenecks anymore. They mostly turn up in spy thrillers, these days — gloomy, conspiratorial pictures with a fall, wintry or too-early spring setting, scripted to match the Cold War that passed and the chilly one … Continue reading
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Tagged cate-blanchett, film-review, john-le-carre, michael-fassbender, movies, pierce-brosnan, spy-movie, steven-soderbergh
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Something appears “off”about this showing of “Novocaine”
It’s slow enough without a ten minute delay due to projector download issues. Two credited directors? Which one was responsible for the pacing? The bits between the torture, no-pain but blood and burns and broken bones and bullet wound fights … Continue reading
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Filmgoing in S. Fla is about to Get More Fascist
“And the Oscar (for Best Documentary Feature) goes to, ‘No Other Land,’” a Palestinian/Israeli project with Palestinian and Norwegian producers. It’s another documentary doing what American media in particular have avoided, reporting on Israel’s brutal land-grabbing practices by focusing on … Continue reading
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Tagged gaza, israel, no-other-land, oscar-winning-documentary, palestine, politics, steve-meiner, zionism
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Movie Preview: A Nasty Norwegian Goof on The Brothers Grimm — “The Ugly Stepsister”
IFC/Shudder has this one, whose trailer is worth a grim grin or two, slated for April 18 release.
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Movie Review: Prospective Parents Olsen and Patel quake at “The Assessment” by Alicia Vikander
“The Assessment” is smart and sinister sci-fi of “The Handmaids Tale” school, a striking, minimalist parable about humanity’s failings in facing an inhumane future. A geographically and architecturally stark setting hosts a grim lecture on family, population and the psychology … Continue reading
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Tagged alicia-vikander, elizabeth-olsen, film, film-review, himesh-patel, minnie-driver, science-fiction
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Movie Preview: Gambling, Same Sex Attraction “On Swift Horses”
Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter and Daisy Edgar-Jones head the cast of this adaptation of the Shannon Pufahl novel. Edgar-Jones and Poulter play a married couple upended by the risky business his brother brings to their lives and relationships. April 25, … Continue reading
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Series Preview: Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn and grand theft of the rich and entitled — “Your Friends Neighbor’s”
Hamm’s a high roller who hits the wall and resorts to stealing from his well heeled “Friends & Neighbors.” Possibilities? April 11, this series hits Apple TV+.
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Movie Preview: “Lilies Not For Me,” a dark, period piece same sex romance
The bad old days for being gay included institutionalization, treatments and the search for a “cure.” This period piece comes from the producers of “Call Me By Your Name,” with Finn O’Shea and Robert Aramayo as the young lovers, and … Continue reading
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