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Netflixable? Self-Centered Actress/Mom’s Come Home to “This, That and Everything in Between”
1+ hour, 46+ min ago (695+ words) “This, That and Everything in Between” is a perfect covers-all-the-bases title for a soap opera. In this case, the soap in question is a feature length film from the Philippines. But “soap” is what this meandering mess stumbles into after…...
Classic Film Review: Cocteau Kink? “Les parents terribles — The Terrible Parents,” aka “The Storm Within”(1948)
1+ week, 2+ day ago (935+ words) One of the most praised French films of its day, Jean Cocteau’s 1948 dark comedy “Les parents terribles” still summons a chuckle or two and a cineaste’s appreciation of its compact, concentrated mise en scene-focused compositions, cinematography and editing. Its witty,…...
Classic Film Review: Jean-Pierre Melville is one of “Two Men in Manhattan” (1959)
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (693+ words) Sometimes, the most accurate mirrors we face are held up to us by others. Classic films can also preserve such snapshots of the past, and one of the most intriguing is Jean-Pierre Melville’s “Two Men in Manhattan,” a fairly conventional…...
Netflixable? “Little Brother” makes Cena Look Small
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (530+ words) Netflix has made inroads in horror and begun to make a mark in prestige pcitures. But they cornered the market on teen rom-coms a while back. And now, years after signing Adam Sandler, his family and hangers-on, they’re going all…...
Netflixable? “Ladies First” remakes “I’m Not an Easy Man” in Sexist Shades of British
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (596+ words) One of the most popular Netflix films from France, “I’m Not an Easy Man” earns a British-accented remake with “Ladies First,” a gender-reversing Sacha Baron Cohen/Rosamund Pike rom-com. Seems to me I traded cars on the review traffic from…...
Movie Review: Car Salesman “Breadwinner” turns Mister Mom Wannabe
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (675+ words) Comic Nate Bargatze’s Hollywood studio comedy debut, “The Breadwinner,” is another “Mister Mom/Daddy Daycare” knockoff, a “Dad’s no good at kiddie caregiving” conceit that’s so moldy and out of date that the less said about this stiff the better....
Series Review: “How to Get to Heaven from Belfast” takes Derry “Girls” to Dublin and Donegal along the Way
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (543+ words) Here’s a delighftul weekend’s binge, a daft and darkly comic trip to the Emerald Isle that’s a lot cheaper than flying, with a lot more laughs than you’ll get from wrangling with DHS. “How to Get to Heaven from Belfast…...
Documentary Review: The Insufferable Ages into Adorable — “Marty: Life Is Short”
3+ mon, 9+ hour ago (680+ words) Maybe he wore us down. The decades of often indifferent movies, the endless wacky guest-spots on sitcoms, chat show appearances that fatigued the host and viewer long before the commercial break, all of that took its toll on the public…...
Series Review: A “Grand(ish) Tour” returns, as a “clip show”
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (1158+ words) We all knew, or perhaps hoped, it would come to this. Our three blokey blokes, those petrolheads from “Top Gear” and “The Grand Tour,” finish their run of pricey car porn, play-racing and wild motoring — car trips, motorcycle quests, boat…...
Movie Review: A Stand-up Comic’s last “line” of defense — “Is This Thing On?”
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (423+ words) The trailers to “Is This Thing On?” had me hyped to catch it during its awards season run. Will Arnett, one of the funniest actors to hold a SAG card, playing a midlife crisis character who copes by trying his…...