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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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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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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
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Movie Review: Beware the “Backrooms” of Your Worst Nightmares
Here’s a thriller that Maurice Escher could have production designed, with Salvador Dalí decorating the sets and Stanley Kubrick behind the camera directing. Not that Youtube phenom turned horror filmmaker Kane Parsons is the new Kubrick. But in turning his … Continue reading
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