Movie Review: “Der Tiger” (“The Tank”) Lumbers down a Too-Familiar Path
Wed Jan 14 1:30 pm
If you see enough movies, attend enough plays and make it through enough literature, you earn the license to say you’ve “seen’em all.” There are only so many basic plots, with a vast but still finite number of variations on …
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Series Preview: Luckily, Kaley Cuoco’s not the one who’s “Vanished”
Wed Jan 14 7:42 am
Her beau disappears mid-trip on a galavant about Europe. Kaley’s not having it. Because nobody walks out on Kaley. Especially not in episodic TV. Even Sam Claflin. “Vanished” is a four-part series with lots of European scenery and espionage-ish skullduggery. …
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Movie Preview: “The Mummy” returns?
Mon Jan 12 5:42 pm
Takes a lotta brass to name another version of “The Mummy” “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy.” Say what now? And you are? Irish and “Evil Dead Rise” and now he’s staking a claim to “The Mummy?” A late April release with …
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Series Preview: Keke Palmer moves to “The Burbs”
Sun Jan 11 9:24 am
Is there a laugh in this trailer for the new Peacock series based on the ’80s mystery-comedy film “The Burbs?” Did I miss one? There’s promise in the premise, although stretching this “mystery” out into a longer form riff on …
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BOX OFFICE: “Avatar” surpasses “Primate,” “Greenland 2” may come in third and is still Danish
Sat Jan 10 8:47 am
More proof that the horror audience has all but gone “poof” is offered up in the form of “Primate,” a monkey-gone-mad “Ten Little Indians” (picked off one by one) thriller, which in days of yore — say 2024 — would …
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Series Preview: Sophie Turner is Witness to the “Steal,” Targeted by All Sides
Fri Jan 09 7:22 pm
It’s British, it’s about a mass identity/pensions theft, and MI5 appears to have a stake in the investigation. Sophie Turner of “Game of Thrones” heads the cast of Brit TV and stage actor faces. This looks addictive. Jan. 21, Amazon.
Netflixable? “People We Meet on Vacation” Bore Us to Tears
Fri Jan 09 6:09 pm
One of the pleasures of youth is experiencing the stages and phases and Big Moments of life for the first time. And one of the indulgences of being pre-“thirtysomething” is the feeling that you’re “discovering” or reinventing things earlier generations …
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Movie Preview: Roided up, Trigger Happy Mayhem from Momoa and Bautista — “The Wrecking Crew”
Fri Jan 09 1:35 pm
A shoot-em-up like it’s 1989, starring Dave and Jason? Not exactly reading the room, are they? Stephen Root, Temura Morrison and that “Deadpool/Greenland” star Morena Baccarin and Klaes Bang are in the supporting cast. Bezosfilm, aka MGM, has this shoot-up-the-Yakuza …
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Movie Review: Butler is back for “Greenland 2: Migration”
Thu Jan 08 8:40 pm
Filmgoers looking for a little escape from the more-horrific-than-fiction daily news out of America will be hard pressed to find it in a movie with “Greenland” and “Migration” in its title. The sequel to the surprise post-apocalyptic Gerard Butler hit …
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“Greenland (2) Migration” time
Thu Jan 08 4:47 pm
Wonder if they take refugees fleeing Nazis?
