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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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Netflixable? French actors, directors and Venus the Wild Boar yell “Call My Agent! The Movie”
A movie spun-off of a TV series is inevitably going to be more rewarding to fans of that series who know all the back stories of the characters and get the jokes that come from being that character, or breaking … Continue reading
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Documentary Review: Mr. Navel Gazing “How To” Kvetches through “The History of Concrete”
“The History of Concrete” is an amusing amble through that construction material’s lineage, especially as it pertains to New York. And New Yorkers. It’s by doc filmmaker/essayist John Wilson, which should tell you its light tone and short-attention-span aimlessness, if … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Just Close the Curtains on this “Knightfall”
“Knightfall,” the latest title of a thriller that had other working titles, is a B, C or D movie starring the dye-job-fools-no-one son of the funniest James Bond and a little known actress who looks as if she was cast … Continue reading
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Tagged crime-drama, d-movie, film, james-bond, movies, news, roger-moore
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Movie Review: A Buddy Comedy (?) with Organ Donation and a Big Body Count — “Runner”
The distributing studios may sweat over the fact that MGM’s “Runner” showed up on streaming just as Angel Studios’ “The Runner” was trotting into theaters. One stars Gal Gadot as a lawyer/mother sprinting across London to murder a prosecution witness … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Godawful Gal can’t get “The Runner” up to Speed
The star is generally too easy a target when you’re looking for the ways a movie goes wrong. So if we’re cutting Gal Gadot any slack at all for the debacle that “The Runner” turned out to be, let’s zero … Continue reading
Series Redux — “Saturday Night Live,” the First Season
I’ve been thinking a lot of late about Martin Short’s assertion — in Lawrence Kasdan’s “Life is Short” documentary — that “80 percent of comedy” fails, and the fact that he wasn’t talking just about his own efforts in landing … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Hello, Dolly — “9 to 5” becomes a Clarion Call for Working Women
You know and I know the title song “9 to 5” was always better than the movie “9 to 5,” right? Memory can fix a “classic” film’s failings, and this one — a big, touched-a-nerve hit when it premiered in … Continue reading
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