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Classic Film Review: Life Lived on the Margins on an Island off Ireland — “Man of Aran” (1934)
Hard lives the way they used to be lived are the subject of documentarian Robert Flaherty’s classic “Man of Aran,” a fictional film capturing the traditions of the past on Ireland’s Aran Islands in the 1930s. A black and white … Continue reading
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Tagged aran-islands, classic-film, famous-documentary, film, ireland-film, movies, news, writing
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BOX OFFICE: “Scary Movie” is the real “Master of the Universe”
Don’t look now, but The Wayans Film Fam is back on the radar and atop the box office. The Thursday night take for the relaunch of their TWENTY-SIX year old franchise was good, if not epic — just under $8 … Continue reading
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Tagged box-office, film, he-man, horror, masters-of-the-universe, movies, Reviews, scary-movie
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Book Review: A Star Director Remembered in his Own Words — “Sydney Pollack: Collected Interviews”
I’m really enjoying and learning a lot about the celebrated, Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack through the assorted journalist interviews, public Q & As and filmmaker-to-filmmaker chats gathered in “Sydney Pollack: Collected Interviews. “ This University Press of Kentucky publication reminds … Continue reading
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Tagged cinema, film, movies, Reviews, robert-redford
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Movie Review: “Carolina Caroline” and Her Man Oliver Rob their Way through the 1990s South
“Carolina Caroline” is a rigidly formulaic romantic thriller about a couple who meet as grifter-and-trainee and abruptly graduate from picking pockets and quick change scams to bank robberies. It’s dogmatic to the point where any potential surprise is smothered out … Continue reading
Movie Review: The “Pressure” of D-Day Weighs on Ike and his Weathermen
“Pressure” is the sort of , stoic World War II drama that Hollywood and Britain used to turn out in the days when the World War II generation was still going to the movies. It’s built on a formula and … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew-scott, brendan-fraser, d-day-movie, flagg, history, krick, movies, pressure
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Series Review: Nic Cage’s a Private Eye Ensnared in “Spider-Noir”
Nicolas Cage dons the hat, mask, leather and goggles and plunges straight into the Spider-Verse in “Spider-Noir,” the latest Marvel spin-off to earn a series treatment. An appearance previewed way back in the animated “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” predicated on … Continue reading
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Tagged jack-huston, li-jun-li, marvel, movies, nic-cage, spider-noir, tv
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