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Movie Review: “Avatar: Fire and Ash” and Dazzling Tedium
James Cameron was very much running out of interesting things to say and show in his “Avatar” franchise with the second movie, “Avatar: The Way of Water.” The third film, “Avatar: Fire and Ash” confirms that fear and adds on … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Forgettable and Regretable –“Ella McCay”
“Ella McCay” is a blandly-titled collection of randomly-scripted expressions of feelings, political frustration, character failings and over-acted monologues interrupting insufferable and incessant voice-over narration. Its two tedious and under-edited hours play like an aimless attempt at a feel good streaming … Continue reading
Movie Review: An Actor finds the Meaning of His Calling working as “Rental Family”
Just when you think Japanese culture could not seem more strange and exotic, along comes another movie reminder that the “problems” have a different gravitas over there, and the solutions to them can be downright ingenius. Little shrines decorate the … Continue reading
Movie Review: A Torch and a Card Trick are passed to a new Generation — “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t”
It helps to think of the “Now You See Me” film franchise as a manga that dodged the whole anime series then anime movie “product” assembly line. “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” brought on that epiphany. Revived a … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Lesser Lubitsch, a “Heaven Can Wait” (1943) that Bores
When we think of the Hollywood comedies by the great German expat Ernst Lubitsch, we remember Garbo at her drollest, a Bolshevik who falls in love in “Ninotchka,” the doors-slamming-on-Nazis backstage farce “To Be or Not to Be” and the … Continue reading
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Documentary Review: The “Mr. Scorsese” Saga in Five Parts
Film buffs idolize him. Film students long to become him. His fellow filmmakers emulate him. Actors long to work with him. And film journalists relish the chance to bask in his presence and find something to ask or say to … Continue reading
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Oft imitated, never bettered, Diane Keaton: 1946-2025
Diane Keaton has died. And good heavens, how do you even BEGIN an appreciation of this Oscar winning icon’s career? She came to fame as Woody Allen’s muse, enjoyed a career that lasted three full and fulfilling acts and lived … Continue reading
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BOX OFFICE– “Tron: Ares” opens big, but not HUGE, “Roofman” might come in Second
The third reboot/incarnation of the trapped-in-a-video-game saga “Tron,” titled “Tron: Ares” and starring Jared Leto, did a meek Thursday night folded into an underwhelming Friday, which Deadline.com says added up to a $15 million opening day. That put it on … Continue reading
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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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BOX OFFICE: “One Battle” battles to the top, “Gabby’s Dollhouse” moves in next door
Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” is bursting onto screens with a flourish, taking in over $22.4 million on its opening weekend. Early projections were for a $25 million opening, and a $3 million Thursday night pushing the Friday … Continue reading
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