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Movie Review: Of Course Kevin James stars in the “Playdate” from Hell

The most violent children’s entertainment since “The Silence of the Lambs” stars Kevin James, features Isla Fisher as leader of a hard-drinking “gang” of soccer moms and gives the inventive character player Alan Tudyck his best shot at impersonating and … Continue reading

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Documentary Review — Home Movies as Comedy Couples Counseling, “Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost”

They were the hottest comic “double act” of their day. Stiller & Meara were never as hip as Nichols and May, but reliably funny, TV (“family audience”) friendly and just edgy enough to give the live New York studio audiences … Continue reading

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Netflixable? A “Trainwreck” documentary remembers “The Real ‘Project X'”

It was just a movie, but those of us who saw it and brought an adult persective to reviewing “Project X” back in 2012 picked up on the ante it was upping. Decades of raucus youth party pictures, from “Animal … Continue reading

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Documentary Review: “I Know Catherine, The Log Lady” celebrates a Character and an Actress and her role in The Strange Saga of David Lynch

Here it is, in documentary form, the Greatest “Show Must Go On” Story Ever Told. Richard Green’s “I Know Catherine, The Log Lady” is a moving appreciation of the long life of a working actress, a woman rendered immortal by … Continue reading

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Series Review: Brian Tyree Henry’s a “Dope Thief” who robs from the wrong Drug Lord

Everybody’s new favorite character actor Brian Tyree Henry earns a rough and raw but often tongue-in-cheek star vehicle with “Dope Thief,” an Apple TV series about dope thieves who steal from the wrong crime boss. It’s violent, with the threat … Continue reading

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