Review
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BETA TEST – Review
In 1973, Erica Jong wrote FEAR OF FLYING, a wildly popular erotic novel that introduced us to the term...
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ONE SHOT – Review
ONE SHOT supports my contention that Scott Adkins is the reliable, taciturn star of low-budget action flicks that Steven...
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DANGEROUS – Review
In DANGEROUS, Scott Eastwood stars as a guy who was incarcerated under psychiatric care for many years due to...
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THE EMPEROR’S SWORD – Review
THE EMPEROR’S SWORD is a Chinese period action drama opening with a huge battle that results in China being...
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PASSING – Review
In 1920s New York, two women, once childhood friends, meet again accidentally one hot summer day. Both are Black...
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FINCH – Review
So, during the “lockdown” phase of the pandemic, last year did you feel alone and isolated? Well, at least...
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ETERNALS – Review
So who’s ready to “make up” for “lost time” (well, maybe 2020 was a “lost year”), and take a...
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THE FRENCH DISPATCH – Review
After heading off to distant worlds in DUNE (transported via the “cinema starship”), how about a visit to another...
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LAST NIGHT IN SOHO – Review
Great set designs and cinematography. Moments of innovative direction by Edgar Wright. Superb performances from the two leading actresses...
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ANTLERS (2021) – Review
Before you begin to fill the candy bowls and light up the jack o’lantern, how about taking a terror...
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MASS – Review
Is there anything harder for a parent than the loss of a child? That heartbreak is at the center...
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THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN – Review
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in a charming, bittersweet true story of an eccentric late-Victorian British artist whose whimsical drawings of...
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THE HARDER THEY FALL (2021) – Review
What say we saddle up and mosey’ down to the ole’ multiplex, pardner’? Or something like that since we’ve...
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DUNE (2021) – Review
So, even though it’s the season of the big somber serious “award-bait” films, who’s ready for a journey back...
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THE MANOR – Review
There have been plenty of suspense and horror flicks set in the sequestered confines of nursing homes and mental...
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WEASEL’S TALE – Review
THE WEASEL’S TALE (“El Cuento De Las Comadrejas”) is a subtitled Argentine dramedy about a cluster of past-their-prime film...
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THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – Review
This past year we’ve seen several very entertaining documentary features set in the world of music, particularly SUMMER OF...
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HALLOWEEN KILLS – Review
“Search every ravine, every crevice, but the fiend must be found!” FRANKENSTEIN (1931), James Whale At the end of...
