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Movie Review: Black Teen faces the trials of being a “Mississippi Scholar”
Earnest, preachy and melodramatic to a fault, “Mississippi Scholar” is exactly the sort of movie that the independent cinema was born to create. Director and co-writer Marcus Bleecker’s film may traffic in tropes and cliches. But it has a vivid … Continue reading
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Tagged civil-rights-drama, deep-south, film, mississippi, movies, ole-miss, racism, Reviews
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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
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Tagged alan-cumming, canadian-homosexual-persecution, film, gay-rights, movie-review, movies, queer-cinema, Reviews, stonewall
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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 daniel-roher, dustin-hoffman, leo-woodall, Reviews, tuner
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