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Netflixable? Keira and Ben Whishaw try to survive London’s “Wick World” of “Black Doves”
The one hard and fast rule of streaming action series these days is that they have to be page-turners. The plot has to not just lure us in, but repeatedly add wrinkles to drag the viewer into that next episode. … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Looking for Lean Laughs from “Blithe Spirit” (1945)
The shifting sands of editor-turned-director David Lean‘s career took him through early adaptations of Noël Coward scripts, included some definitive adaptations of Charles Dickens and eventually settled on the sweeping epics which is he best known for today — “Bridge … Continue reading
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Tagged comedy, david-lean, margaret-rutherford, movie-review, noel-coward, review, rex-harrison, theatre
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Classic Film Review: Was “Caligula” (1976, ’79, 2024) as bad as we remember?
No matter how scorned by one generation of film critics and/or filmgoers, once a movie is finished and preserved for all time there’s always a chance of “rediscovery” and reevaluation by film fans of the future. “Lost” films come back … Continue reading
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Tagged caligula, film, gielgud, guccione, helen-mirren, malcolm-mcdowell, peter-otoole, review, rome, vidal
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Netflixable? Korean Cops and Intel agents duel in “Mission: Cross”
Say this for “Mission: Cross.” They spent some serious money on this crap. Flipping cars, explosions, drone shot sequences, legions of black-helmeted commando minions cast, costumed and slaughtered in a James Bond “villain’s lair” finale — that doesn’t come cheap … Continue reading
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Tagged action-comedy, korean-drama, movies, netflix, review, south-korea
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Netflixable? Hapless Swede gets in “Trouble” with Criminals, Convicts and Cops in this Comic Thriller
A good comic thriller knows how to frustrate the viewer in all the best ways — creating suspense through a collection of close shaves, near misses and moments when the heroine or hero “almost” gets away. A bad comic thriller … Continue reading
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Tagged filip-berg, film, netflix, review, Reviews, swedish-comedy, trouble
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