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Documentary Review — “John Candy: I Like Me”
Friends, acquaintances and fans still get choked up when the subject of the late Canadian comic wonder John Candy comes up. I’d be talking to Richard Lewis or Ron Howard or Hanks or somebody who worked with Candy and out … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Who’s a Good (Brazilian) Boy? “Caramelo”
“Caramelo” is a boy-and-his-dog-tale that’s as adorable as it is sentimental and predictable. Writer-direector Diego Freitas serves up a near perfectly executed São Paulo story of a mischievous stray, a young chef and the ways they connect when one of … Continue reading
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Tagged brazilian-food, dog-movie, feel-good-film, film, movie-review, movies, netflix-comedy, sao-paolo
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Movie Review: Faithful to the End, and Beyond — Who’s a “Good Boy?”
“Good Boy” is elemental horror — a tale of a sick man under natural and supernatural assault — and his dog. And the marvel of this movie is the performance by that real live dog. Director Ben Leonberg picked up … Continue reading
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Movie Review: McConaughey, Ferrara and Greengrass rally around “The Lost Bus”
Paul Greengrass, one of the last and greatest of the cinema’s action auteurs, stages, shoots and edits the hell out of “The Lost Bus,” turning a conventional enough “true story” of children trapped on a schoolbus in a raging wildfire … Continue reading
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Tagged america-ferrera, film, matthew-mcconaughey, paul-greengrass, yul-vasquez
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Netflixable? “Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story”
The stakes could not be higher. The sneering gang of armed men burst into the house, punch and abuse the inhabitants and ransack the place looking for “the money.” The husband is bloodied and the pregnant wife slapped around, all … Continue reading
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Tagged film, film-review, horror, lifetime-original-movie, marcela-borges, movie-reviews, movies, orlando-crime-story
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Movie Review: Widower Timothy Spall crosses Britain on “The Last Bus”
The first impression Timothy Spall made on film fans was when he played a plump, delusional, somewhat daft chef in Mike Leigh’s quirky slice-of-working-class dream, “Life is Sweet.” Restaurateur Aubrey thought putting boiled bacon consumme, prune quiche and pork cyst … Continue reading
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Tagged british-travel, film, john-ogroats, lands-end, movies, Reviews, timothy-spall, tubi
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Movie Review: A Dark Night of “La Dolce Vita” — “Finally Dawn”
Federico Fellini cast a jaded, bemused eye on the postwar Italian decadence and indulgence with “La Dolce Vita,” a cinema classic about a generation just removed from decades of fascism and war partying, reveling in paparazzo-pursued celebrity and an internationally … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Looking for Love via a Rich Bachelor in “The Wrong Paris”
As obvious as its title and as sexy as an all-gals bull-riding contest, “The Wrong Paris” is a Netflix romance novel of a movie whose creators don’t dishonor The Hallmark Channel Oath. Keep it cute, keep it clean and make … Continue reading
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Tagged film, miranda-cosgrove, movie-review, movies, netflix, paris-texas, pierson-fode
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Robert Redford: 1936-2025
Hard as it might be to believe, there is such a thing as being too “classically handsome” or just entirely too good looking when you’re a movie star. Don’t ask Warren Beatty, whose ambition and range were obvious and whose … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Coming Out in the ’90s is no Easy Thing for “Plaintclothes” Cop
“Plainclothes” is a simple but engaging “coming out” tale of the sort we’ve been seeing for decades now. But the performances are understated and spot-on. And writer-director Camen Emmi’s feature debut reels us in through the simple trick of not … Continue reading
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