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BOX OFFICE: “Minions” Wear Out their Welcome, “Washington” isn’t Celebrating, “Supergirl” sinks like a Stone
There’s a LOT to unpack with this holiday weekend’s box office take, stretched to five days thanks to the early opening of “Minions & Monsters.” So let’s dig in. The umpteenth iteration of Universal’s venerable “Despicable Me/Minions” franchise was expected … Continue reading
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Tagged box-office, film, horror, kelsey-grammer, minions, movie, movies, Reviews, supergirl
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Movie Review: Cumming and Kin “Drive Back Home” in The Bad Ol’Days for Canada’s Gays
“Drive Back Home” is a road comedy with a queer history subtext and a hard, melodramatic flourish saved for its finale. It’s about a prodigal son and an estranged family that he fled the moment he was old enough to … Continue reading
Documentary Review: Intentionally forgotten Lebanon — “Do You Love Me”
In Lebanon, an opening title tells us, “contemporary history is not taught in schools.” Basically, a half century of intermittent bloody unrest has been erased. The endless Israeli incursions and invasions? The civil war Israel triggered with the refugee dislocations … Continue reading
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Tagged beirut, documentary, film, israel, lebanon, middle-east, movies, Reviews
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Movie Review: “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War”
These are not the days for “Patriot Games.” The world we live in’s realities long ago outstripped Tom Clancy’s post-Cold War fantasies of a righteous but compromised America and the West and the mythic “surgical strikes” it takes to keep … Continue reading
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Tagged film, jack-ryan, krasinski, movies, Reviews, sienna-miller, tom-clancy
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Movie Review: Too Much Talk, Too Little Action — “Ip Man: Kung Fu Legend”
The storied, mythic and constantly fictionalized life of the martial artist who taught Bruce Lee his moves earns perhaps his dullest film outing in “Ip Man: Kung Fu Legend.” It’s not really the fault of star Yu-Hang (Dennis) To, who … Continue reading
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Tagged action, dennis-to, hong-kong-cinema, ip-man, martial-arts, Reviews
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Netflixable? Schnabel’s Mad Monomania paints “In the Hand of Dante”
There’s a “just go with it” madness that is demanded of anyone who dives into the glorious — some will say wretched — excesses of “In the Hand of Dante.” A romantic thriller contrived out of history, great “lost” literature … Continue reading
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Tagged books, dante, julian-schnabel, Reviews
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Movie Review: This “Tuner” has an Ear for Safecracking
It’s built around a methodical, arcane and dying artistic profession set in a digitized, short-attention span world. There’s a love story whose backdrop is the classical music where virtuosos practice their art, and piano tuners practice theirs. And a heist … Continue reading
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Tagged Reviews, dustin-hoffman, leo-woodall, daniel-roher, tuner
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BOX OFFICE: It’s “Disclosure Day” weekend, but “Obsession” and “Backroom” are Still Making Bank
Steven Spielberg’s third shot at “The aliens have made contact” is overperforming the low expectations that Universal had put out — $35 million, they said. For a Spielberg movie. With aliens. And Emily “A Quiet Place” Blunt. Not a world … Continue reading
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