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BOX OFFICE: “Street Fighter” opens Well, not Great, Elizabeth Holmes Goes to Jail Doc makes Bank
The umpteenth — OK SEVENTH — “Street Fighter” video game film adaptation is opening #1 at the box office, as one might expect. But it’s not doing summer “event” movie numbers, or making holiday weekend blockbuster bank. It’s doing good … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Operation Kabul” to the Rescue
Well, damn. Who’d have guessed that the best combat thriller about the evacuation and fall of Kabul, Afghanistan would be Hungarian, and about Hungarian NATO troops battling to get Hungarian nationals and embassy staff out of that benighted country? “Operation … Continue reading
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Documentary Review: The Canadian Who Cooked Up “SNL” — “Lorne”
Lorne Michaels, the inscrutable guru who changed Saturday nights in America by creating “Saturday Night Live” and then presiding over it for almost all of its 51 years, is the “star” and central figure of mystery of “Lorne.” The documentary … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Can “Animals” Stick the Landing?
Isn’t it about time that America’s film schools added a “How to End Your Movie” course to their curricula? I know that they don’t have such “Finishing” or “Stick the Landing” stand-alone tutorials set up, and not just from covering … Continue reading
Movie Review: Remembering “Tenzing” and Hillary and their Ascent of Everest
The viewer keeps waiting for “Tenzing,” the new bio-drama of the life of “the other man” to be the first to summit Mount Everest, to take a false step. But director Jennifer Peedom comes from documentaries and she’s made films … Continue reading
Movie Review: “Don’t Move” or the Creature in the Creature Feature will Get You
“Don’t Move” begins with a tragedy so vivid and horrific it sets us up for a much better thriller than the movie that follows. A competent, can-do mother braves the flames of a seedy amusement park haunted house horror ride … Continue reading
Classic Film Review: “El Cid” (1961 — Still a Stiff?
Yup. That’s the answer to the rhetorical question posed by that bad-pun headline. Honestly, I’ve never understood any of the adoring or merely “tolerant” reviews of “El Cid,” a corpse of a corpse-on-horseback “history.” Charlton Heston, at his Big Man … Continue reading
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Documentary Review: Cinema as Seen from the Projection Booth — “Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey”
You probably missed this sprawling, feel-good-about-cinema’s-future Australian documentary “Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey” when it made the rounds of film festivals and earned a limited release a couple of years back. Celluloid purists certainly wouldn’t have. Australian projectionist turned doc-maker … Continue reading
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Movie Review: In Muldoon’s Curtain Call he’s an Ex-Boxer with “Dirty Hands”
Patrick Muldoon was a “Starship Troopers” alumnus who never quite got over the B-movie hump as an actor. He passed away last April at 57. “Dirty Hands” was his final film, a representative work for an actor who made a … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Shaun the Sheep — The Beast of Mossy Bottom”
Much of the charm and delight missing from children’s animated films this year makes a belated arrival in “Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom.” Yes, it’s an aimated franchise and yes, there’s even been a VERY long-running TV … Continue reading
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