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Documentary Review: Cleaning up the Ocean, One Butt at a Time — “The Cigarette Surfboard”
“The Cigarette Surfboard” is an upbeat travelogue documentary and surf picture about surfers turning into activists for cleaner oceans, and the power of ADHD creatives. Surfer and industrial designer Taylor Lane is the subject of the film, a Santa Cruz … Continue reading
Series Review: Not Your Grandpa’s “Grand Tour”
The dropping of a new series of “The Grand Tour” held about as much interest for me as the announcement that the BBC is re-engineering “Top Gear” for another run, this time with a comedian/car-nut as its center. It’s TV, … Continue reading
Movie Review: Ryan R. and Kenneth B. gun for “Top Gun” — “Mayday”
Let’s go with “adorably awful,” because “delightfully dumb” seems like a stretch. “Mayday” is a pseudo-serious send-up of “Top Gun” starring two guys who should know better, but whose way with a punch line ensures it’ll at least serve up … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Tipsy Italians talk a lad into “The Last One for the Road”
“The Last One for the Road” is a seemingly aimless drunken drive through northern Italy, a picaresque misadventure in a minor key about a Neopolitan kid, fresh out of college, being taught “the meaning of life.” Francesco Sossai’s curious gambole … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, alcoholism, europe, italian-cinema, marginal-utility, travel
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Documentary Review: Entrancing “Trains” is a History of Europe through its Rails and Rolling Stock
“Trains,” the new dialogue-free “found footage” documentary by the Polish filmmaker Maciej Drygas, is one of the most original pieces of movie-making you’re likely to run across. Drygas tells a history of Europe through the first half of the 20th … Continue reading
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Tagged documentary-review, europe, history, railroad, the-holocaust, trains, travel, world-war-i
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Movie Review: A French bull-“racer” starts finds empathy with the “Animale”
“Animale” is an intriguing French body horror thriller set in Camargue, the bull fighting capital of France. The first local woman to enter the ring with the young men who tempt, chase and are chased by local bulls starts to … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Broadbent “walks 500 miles” in “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry”
Oscar winner Jim Broadbent earns a fine showcase in “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry,” a sweet story of grief, regret, obligations and the kindness of strangers. It’s based on a novel by Rachel Joyce that seems inspired by any … Continue reading
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Tagged books, british-film, fiction, jim-broadbent, movie-review, penelope-wilton, rachel-joyce, travel
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Documentary Review: A bullfighter’s life in the Ring, “Afternoons of Solitude (Tardes de soledad)”
Any intimate, detailed documentary about what goes on during a bullfight is going to chase away probably two thirds of the populace in this day and age. Those who avoid it have a point. “Afternoons of Solitude,” which follows pouty … Continue reading
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Tagged bullfighting, bullfighting-documentary, madrid, movie-review-bullfighting-film, spain, travel
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Netflixable? A mad bomber plots a “Bullet Train Explosion”
A 1975 Japanese thriller titled “Bullet Train,” about a high-speed passenger train with a bomb on board, one that will explode if the train slows beyond a triggered speed, inspired the bomb-on-a-bus thriller “Speed,” its sequel and lots of imitators. … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Vincent Cassel’s a Burned Out DJ who May Have One More “Banger” in Him
The DJ has been mixing beats long enough to have lost his hair, and have his stubble turn white. It’s been a long time since he acquired the nickname, “The Godfather of French Touch,” even longer since he was Emperor … Continue reading
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Tagged fashion-show, music, netflix-movie, travel, vincent-cassel
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