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Netflixable? Crooked Cops, Accomplices and Cutesy Screenwriter are on a “Collision Course”
Remember “The ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ Paradox” that was bandied about some years back? It posited that the film was fine, save for the fact that nothing Indiana Jones did truly altered the outcome of the story. I was … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Beware What Lies in Wait in “Wildwood”
A grab bag of themes and tropes of fantasy fiction are brought into play in the wildly ambitious “Wildwood,” the latest stop-motion animated marvel from Laika Studios, the folks who gave us “Coraline” and “ParaNorman.” It’s another tale of a … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, film, review, Reviews, wildwood
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BOX OFFICE: “Clayface” and “You Can See Everything” fight for 1st, “Wicker” cracks Top 5, “Hunger Games” Awaits
It’s Halloween Weekend, the calm before the “Hunger Games” storm. So who’s going to the movies? Not a lot of us, it turns out. But that makes it a great weekend to catch up on titles we’ve missed, pearls that … Continue reading
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Documentary Review — “Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story”
Maria Bamford‘s been stand-up comedy’s “next big thing” off and on for decades. She’d have a break-out tour, TV or film appearance, a chat show guest spot that went viral. And then, crickets. The offers might be there. Netflix loves … Continue reading
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Tagged apatow, film, maria-bamford, mental-health-comedy, movies, Reviews, stand-up-comedy, suicide-jokes
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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
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Tagged ben-affleck, film, film-review, gillian-anderson, kerry-washington, movies, netflix, writing
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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
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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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