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Movie Review: A Robot Might Provide or Deny “The Last Spark of Hope”
Almost all science fiction is in the business of world-building, creating a landscape, setting, period in time or even “universe” where the story takes place. Dystopias engage in world-destroying. The Polish thriller “The Last Spark of Hope” manages to serve … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Viola Davis is a (literally) Embattled President trying to Survive “G20”
When it comes to action pictures, there’s “So bad that it’s good” and whatever the hell “G20” amounts to. So bad that it’s not godawful? The idea of Oscar winner Viola Davis, aka “The Woman King,” as a two-fisted, combat … Continue reading
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Tagged action, amazon, anthony-starr, film, g20, movie-review, movies, ramon-rodriguez, viola-davis
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BOX OFFICE: “Sinners” lures the horror/Coogler/Jordan faithful, bests “Minecraft”
It was a VERY Good Friday, Saturday AND Sunday for Warner Bros, which saw its new horror release “Sinners” do decent, not world-beating business Thursday afternoon and evening ($4.7 million), but added another $14 million to Friday itself to “open” … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Ambitious “Sinners” fails to transcend genre
“Black Panther,” “Creed” and “Fruitvale Station” director Ryan Coogler sets his sights on horror with “Sinners,” a sprawling Depression Era tale of race, religion and “The Devil’s Music,” the blues. Coogler immerses us in the early ’30s South where a … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “A Wedding Banquet” remake shows us Just How Far We’ve Come
More charming than amusing, chosing sentiment over “edge,” the Andrew Ahn remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 queer cinema classic “The Wedding Banquet” gives the viewer time to reflect on just how much American and world culture have changed in the … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: A Ken Loach dip into Dickensiana — “Black Jack” (1979)
Ken Loach built his career on films of protest, depicting the oppressed of many places and many eras in their struggle against their oppressors. The Brit’s “socialist realism” was obvious from his breakthrough English working class classic “Kes,” with the … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th-century, cinema, classic-film-review, dickens, drama, empire-silhouette, film, ken-loach, movies, thriller, time-bandits
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BOX OFFICE: “Minecraft” mines more, “King of Kings” opens big, “Amateur” goes pro, “Warfare” cashes in, “Drop” sinks
Chicken Jockey mania continues at the nation’s multiplexes. No. Seriously. And that is driving “A Minecraft Movie” into the cinematic stratosphere, a runaway hit that should clear $80 million this weekend, when earlier projections had pointed towards a $65 million … Continue reading
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Tagged box-office, drop, film, jack-black, king-of-kings, meghann-fahy, minecraft, momoa, movie, movie-reviews, movies, rami-malek, warfare
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Movie Review: A First Date Dominated by a Cell Phone and a Stranger’s “Drop”
A tony, high-rise restaurant filled with potential suspects, any one of whom might “airdrop” the threats and blackmailed instructions for a murder onto our shocked and frantic heroine’s cell phone, is the setting and plot of “Drop,” a middling horror … Continue reading
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Tagged brandon-sklenar, christopher-landon, drop, film, meghann-fahy
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Movie Review: Malek schemes and turns the screws as “The Amateur”
A good cast and a clever variation of the man with “particular skills” revenge thriller formula make “The Amateur” an often entertaining slice of spy games hokum. Rami Malek stars as a CIA crypto analayst and tinkerer who becomes obsessed … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Modern “Warfare,” up close and impersonal
The big selling point of “Warfare” is its recreation of the “reality” of combat in the Middle East by a former Navy SEAL who was there. But there have been scores of documentaries made by embedded filmmakers who detailed the … Continue reading
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