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Wasted talent. That’s the most economical way to sum up The 355, a female-led globetrotting espionage action thriller that finds its multi-racial cast of Hollywood A-listers muddling through a script so lazily written it gives generic a bad name.
Then again,...
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Watching The Tender Bar made me feel nostalgic. It’s about a youngster and his relationship with an uncle who owns a bar. Coincidentally, I spent the early days of my childhood living in the back of a bar my grandma owned. And one of the bartenders took on extra duties as...
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The Lost Daughter is an homage to what used to be called “a woman’s picture” during the Golden Age of Hollywood. These films were usually directed by George Cukor at MGM for deities such as Katharine Hepburn or Joan Crawford. They were slick and designed to wrench the hearts...
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Let’s first address the elephant in the room: that unappealing title of the new film from Paul Thomas Anderson called Licorice Pizza. It comes from a now-defunct Southern California record store chain that enjoyed its heyday in the ‘70s. Perfectly appropriate...
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On February 1, Movie Addict Headquarters shines the spotlight on Jim Henson and The Muppets. Canadian film critic Geoff Roberts has agreed to discuss this fun topic with our producer Nikki Starr. He will talk about how Henson became interested in puppetry and will share backstage...
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I am saddened by the recent passing of Bob Saget. He was only 65 years young. Saget gave me one of my most enjoyable phone interviews back in 1998. We talked about Dirty Work, his first full-length feature as a director. Below is my write-up about that fun experience. ...
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Arising organically in the years preceding it and meshed to five decades of cold war confrontation to which it gave birth, World War II defined the Twentieth Century. Though at least some European cinema touched on...
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