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BOX OFFICE: Pre-Halloween “Other Mommy” opens Big, “The Social Reckoning” is Unfriended
Jessica Chastain has a horror hit on her hands. Replacing Jesse Eisenberg with the more naturally menacing, taller and less ZuckerberglyJeremy Strong blows up in Aaron Sorkin’s face with his Facebook Takes a Hit sequel to “The Social Network,” “The … 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
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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: A Haunted Japanese Inn’s Worth Visiting, just “Never After Dark”
It’s rare that even a casual horror fan doesn’t greet a new Japanese ghost story with the words, “I LIKE IT already!” Even if the film is made by Tuscon-born one-time Mormon missionary (how he got into Asian culture and … 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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Classic Film Review: The First Person Diary Doc is born on “Sherman’s March” (1986)
It’s hard to remember how “out there” Ross McElwee’s landmark “personal journey” documentary “Sherman’s March” was in 1986. A confessional, cutesie, creepy and revealing snapshot of the South and one privileged movie maker’s revisiting of his romantic past and revelation … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Beware the “Backrooms” of Your Worst Nightmares
Here’s a thriller that Maurice Escher could have production designed, with Salvador Dalí decorating the sets and Stanley Kubrick behind the camera directing. Not that Youtube phenom turned horror filmmaker Kane Parsons is the new Kubrick. But in turning his … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Twenty Feet Tall and Still Hiding in the Dark — “The Yeti”
“The Yeti” is a low-budget creature-feature that’s terrible on pretty much every level. Badly scripted, wootacting, dreadful effects that have that cast brushing fake snowflakes out of their hair and lit like a teenager’s in-mom’s-closet podcast, it’s an abominable waste … Continue reading
