A simple story told in a simple way, An Unquiet Grave is a clunky title for a rather elegant, if occasionally slow, supernatural thriller.
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‘Take Back’: Kick-A** Woman vs Rubbery-Faced Mickey Rourke
Hollywood has done something rare and welcome: An African-American female over the age of 40 is the lead in an action film!
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Listen to New Songs and New Guitar from Alex Lifeson of RUSH
On his two new songs which he wrote and plays everything except bass (Andy Curran does that), Lifeson has broadened his sonic identity.
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New Music from Styx and Dennis DeYoung. Who’s Done Better Since Split?
The guy who made the best Styx songs, yet also arguably ruined the band, is still creating. His former bandmates are, too.
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George A. Romero’s ‘The Amusement Park’ | Horror or History?
Almost predictably, Romero delivered an unacceptable product to the Lutheran Society and the film went unseen. It was “too disturbing,” they said. Too weird.
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Review: Animated ‘Wish Dragon’ Delights and Surprises.
Despite blatant borrowing from other films, Wish Dragon emerges with its own identity – it’s delightful.
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‘Loki’ | Series is Sharp, Funny, Even If You’re Not A Comic Nerd
Rewards full-fledged comic nerds without punishing the casual viewer who either didn’t see or doesn’t remember Avengers: Endgame (meekly raises hand).
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True Crime Doc Review: ‘Nail Bomber: Manhunt’ | 3 Stars
I recommend watching the film with as little advance knowledge as possible. Why? Because the doc plays as a murder mystery.
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Review ‘Open Your Eyes’| A Slow Start, A Satisfying Conclusion
What keeps us watching is wanting to know where this is going. And where is everyone?
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Review: ‘Spirit Untamed’ Saddles Up For Big Screen Release
The animation is gorgeous, if not groundbreaking, the story is genial. I like the single Dad angle, which we don’t see enough of in films for younger viewers.
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Horror Review: ‘Digging to Death’ | How Deep Is It?
Would’ve been an amazing 30 minute episode of an anthology series.
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Review: ‘Super Frenchie’| A Death Defying, Breathtaking Doc
These are the guys you knew in high school who would jump off of bridges and ride on the tops of cars down the highway. Only with incredible film footage.
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‘The Sound of Identity’ | Transgender Opera Diva Makes History
You can’t have a good documentary without fascinating people in it. This is a good doc.
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‘High on the Hog’ Feeds Your Soul With Both Food and History
If it looks like the kind of series you’d like, you’re right. If it looks like the kind of thing you aren’t interested in, give it a chance.You won’t regret it.
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Carmine Appice and Vinny Appice With Backstage Stories on Their Show
You’d be forgiven if you thought it was the title of an Adult Film, but, no – Hangin’ & Bangin’ is a talk show hosted by Rock brothers Carmine & Vinny Appice.
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‘Cruella’ is Spot On! Spoiler-Free Review
This feels like the movie that will bring us back after our long time away from the cinema. For that reason, alone, I feel very affectionately toward Cruella.
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Horror Review: ‘100 Candles’ | Is it a Blow Out?
You like scary movies, but not too scary?
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Review: ‘The Dark Hobby’ | Are the Fish in Your Aquarium Victims of Animal Cruelty?
might just make you think twice before buying your next fish, or even getting an aquarium in the first place.
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Review: ‘Solos’ Engages Your Heart and Imagination for Seven Great Episodes
If you want to get into something bite-sized that you can either binge or watch when you don’t feel like getting into a long haul, Solos is a great choice
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TV Review ‘1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything’
through its sheer length, eight episodes worth, it also offers a deeper dive than what you may have seen before.
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Film Review: ‘Enfant Terrible’ Gives Art House Fans the Story of a Genius
There is no question that cinephiles and those more familiar with Fassbinder’s work than I, will find a lot to attract them.
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Series Review: ‘The Underground Railroad’ | Often Gripping, Sometimes Slow
He always ends each episode with something captivating that makes you forgive the slow-moving bits and press on to the next episode.
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‘The Crime of the Century’ | Infuriating, Fist-Shaking Facts About Big Pharma
Gibney has taken on Scientology, Silicon Valley and Wikileaks. Taking on Big Pharma ends up being another behemoth he goes after with fury and facts.
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Review: Knots: A Forced Marriage Story Shocks and Surprises
I had no idea that 46 states in America still allow some form of child marriage and that forced marriages are as common as they are.
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‘Undergods’ Review: You’ve Never Seen This Movie Before.
Where are we? When is this? What will happen next? The fact that those questions roll around in your head is one of the reasons to recommend Undergods.
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‘The Sons of Sam’ Docuseries Makes Case For Multiple Killers
I am so hooked on True Crime docs that it’s basically the main thing I use my streaming services for. The genre has just gotten so damn good.
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Peter Frampton Back in the News with Guitar, Memoir and Album
What I did not know until today, is that the guitar on millions of album covers disappeared. Everyone assumed that it was destroyed in a cargo plane crash
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Review: ‘Tu Me Manques’ Offers Fresh Take In LGBTQ-Themed Film
Having this cast and setting gives it a fresh context and makes it a watchable experience for anyone.
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’22 vs Earth’ | A Short, Cute Companion to Disney’s ‘Soul’.
This 6 minute short is set before the events of “SOUL” and brings back Tina Fey
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‘Pink Skies Ahead’: Watch Anxiety and Attitude Come Together with the Best Results
It may be potentially heavy subject matter, but this is no boring classroom film – no, it’s a hip, culturally aware script, set in 1998. It’s also funny.
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Review: ‘Berlin Alexanderplatz’ Gives Art Film Lovers Something Old, Something New
The less you know about the 1929 book, the more you’ll enjoy this new reimagining, with an African illegal immigrant as the lead character.
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‘The Mitchells vs. The Machines’ Hilarity with an Edge And A Heart
What is fresh and different is the degree of irreverence, the striking artwork, the snappy dialogue.
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Horror Film Review: ‘Separation’ | 2 ½ out of 4 Stars |
The whodunnit piece comes a bit too late in the slow build up to it, but I liked that bit of the story, as I am not usually a supernatural fan
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‘Lucy the Human Chimp’ Evokes Smiles, Tears | 3 ½ Stars
I still don’t think I’m a nature doc fan – I’m a great storytelling fan, and here we are.
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The 5 Minutes That Changed My Musical Life Forever
A student made his way to the center of the stage. We instantly recognized him, he was one of the “special ed” kids. What’s he doing here?
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Review: The Secrets of the Whales | It’s A Lot of Fin
proves that a viewer can still say “wow” and “oh, my God!” while witnessing wondrous images, even on a screen as small as an iPhone
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Review: ‘Vanquish’ | Looks Like Miami Vice, Feels Like A DVD
Here, I should probably stop and say that Vanquish is not a great film.
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Review: ‘Dad Stop Embarrassing Me’: Throwback to 90s Sitcoms
I am not mad at ‘Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!’. In fact, I’m ok with the ‘comfy slipper’ aspects of those likeable but less than great sitcoms of the 80s and 90s.
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Review: ‘Our Towns’ Shows A Divided Country at Its Best
You could argue that their cinematography is so breathtaking, so complete, that you could have made this doc without narration or a host.
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Review: Excellent ‘Brewmance’ Not Just for Beer Bros
I will almost certainly never taste the beers mentioned in the story, but I feel like I have a stake in the brewers
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Review: Unflinching ‘Slalom’ Dramatizes Assault in the World of Skiing
shockingly sudden and predestined by all the other physically intimate stepping stones that have preceded it.
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‘Dolly Parton: A MusiCares Tribute’ Makes Your Ears Feel So Good.
this concert film is the kind of thing you can listen to without necessarily watching it. You can also enjoy it more than once.
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‘This is a Robbery’ | Crime Docuseries Digs Deep Into Mystery
The series becomes more than a whodunnit, it also serves as a “where are they now?” mystery.
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This Expat in Indonesia Has The World On A String
He has a perpetual twinkle in his eye. A slight smile denoting empathy and a vibe of goodwill.
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Review: ‘Worn Stories’ Weaves Tales and Spins Yarns That Are Fascinating
clothing is just a clever device to get us through the door and into the lives of a fascinating array of people.
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Groomed: The Movie | Important and Enlightening
For Gwen, a bit of undercover work is done, as she hires a detective to track down her abuser
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After the Death of Albert Lima – Riveting True Crime Doc That Also Makes You Snicker
Lima’s murder was solved rather quickly. The problem was getting the killer convicted and put in prison.
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Oscar Nominees: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Wins This One. Bet On It
If you are a betting person who plays the office Oscar pool, the surest bet of the night is that the late Chadwick Boseman will win
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 2: A Rockstar and the Villain Get Into the Mix.
there’s also something kind of “I know I’m a Rockstar” vibe to him. Oh, and make no mistake, he is a rockstar.
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Review: ‘My Beautiful Stutter’ Says Important Things Beautifully
moving triumphs and stories that are heartbreaking, but an undercurrent of hope runs throughout
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Tom Petty: New Film, New Music Coming and New Signature Gibson Guitar
doesn’t include anything that wasn’t from that period in 94 when Petty felt he was making the best album of his career.
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Review: Allen v Farrow Docuseries | Who Do You Believe?
you can’t, as a viewer, feel anything but pity or anger or sadness for most of it.
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Daniel Lanois Drops Stunning Mix of Gospel, Chill and Lo-Fi on New Album. Listen Here:
The trick that Lanois has pulled off is to take all of those recognizable genres and fuse them into something you have not heard before.
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New Solo Album from Guns N’ Roses Alum Gilby Clarke Has Great Classic Rock Vibe
His forthcoming album ‘The Gospel Truth’ is a super solid, head-bopping rocker. The songs are catchy
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Worth The Wait
After Covid delays and production shutdowns, this series comes to Disney+ looking like a million bucks, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was worth the wait. You expect the first episode of a 6-part series to have a lot of exposition, and of course, there’s some setting up to do,…
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Review: ‘Tina’ New Footage Revives Old Story
After the autobiography I, Tina and then the 1993 Oscar nominated film What’s Love Got to Do with It and,most recently, the Broadway Musical Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, is there anything left unsaid about Tina Turner’s life at this point? Not much, as it turns out, and yet the…
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Review: “A Lot Can Happen in the Middle of Nowhere’ Has Amazing Behind-The-Scenes Stories from ‘Fargo’
Twenty-five years ago, my fellow film critics and I assembled in the very small, but well appointed screening room inside the notorious 666 5th Avenue building in New York City. By the time the lights came up after the showing of Fargo, there was mostly stunned silence (the same group…
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Super Controversial Anti-Vietnam War Doc Re-Released
Jane Fonda presents as a benign 83 year old lady, beloved in certain circles and recently feted at the Golden Globes. But 50 years ago
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Review: Geoff Tate Brings Classic Queensrÿche Sound to Sweet Oblivion
When I interviewed Geoff Tate of Queensrÿche in late 1984, he had just come offstage, having opened for Ronnie James Dio. Covered in sweat and breathing like a chainsmoker who’s just climbed 10 flights of stairs, Tate was otherwise calm and collected. You wouldn’t have guessed that he had just…
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Review: ‘400 Bullets’ Brings One Helluva Knife to This Gunfight
I try to go into a movie knowing as little as possible, but I’m so glad that I decided to read a bit about 400 Bullets before watching – just a tiny bit of background about the film’s hero made it more enjoyable, put more at stake for the viewer.…
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Review: Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon. Gorgeous, But Too Complex?
Disney’s first Southeast Asian themed film is otherwise an amalgamation of their greatest hits: odd couple on the road, searching for a missing (fill in the blank) while learning life lessons along the way. Of course, the story is deeper than that, perhaps too deep, but you get the idea.…
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Punk Pioneer Johnny Thunders with Release From Beyond the Grave
Johnny Thunders is a true punk rock legend. He shot to stardom as a founding member of the iconic NEW YORK DOLLS. After a stint with the Dolls he then went on to form his own band Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers. Thunders sadly lost his life in 1991 aged…
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Things I Never Thought I’d Say: QUEEN Have A New Video Game Out
Here’s something teenage Queen fan me never imagined he’d write someday: there’s a new mobile video game that features the sights and sounds of, yes, Queen. I also never thought the video game avatars would be so cute and have that Funko Pop appearance. I guess if you live long…
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‘Ski Bum: The Warren Miller Story’ – Chilly Thrills, High Adventures
Long before there was such a thing as ESPN – heck, long before cable TV or sports being branded as “eXtreme,” filmmaker Warren Miller was making sports documentaries from the ski slopes of this country and around the world. Even if you were a kid growing up in Texas, probably…
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Vanilla Fudge Drop Remastered Version of Zeppelin’s ‘Rock and Roll’
I love me some Hammond B-3 organ, I love keys – but 60s rock organ has never appealed to me. Doors, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple – all bands whose music kinda lost me with too much of that kind of organ at the top of the mix. I have to…
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Review: ‘Biggie: I Got A Story to Tell’ Has A Lot You Know, But Some You Don’t
Those most interested in the material will already know most of his story, but the new documentary ‘Biggie: I Got A Story To Tell’ dishes out numerous revelations for those who only know the hits and the fact that he was gunned down at the age of 24, about 6…
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Review: ‘The Sinner’ Season 3. Weird in a Good Way.
Originally planned as an 8 part mini-series on the USA Network, ‘The Sinner’ turned into something much more- a satisfying anthology mystery series with well-written, offbeat stories and Bill Pullman, playing Detective Harry Ambrose, always at the core. Pullam is what I call “Good Weird,” and the show, like the…
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Oscar Nominee Review: ‘The Father’ Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman Shine
You don’t expect a film about a character with dementia to be haunting, but there are moments in ‘The Father’ that literally gave me chills. It’s not because this is a horror film, it’s because the movie tells parts of its story through the point of view of the character,…
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The Handmaid’s Tale Season 4. Watch the Full Official Trailer
I was very late to the game on Handmaid’s Tale, but it hooked me pretty quickly when I finally started. It just seemed like the perfect show for a country caught in the grasp of an Authoritarian. The things we as a country were going through, mothers and children separated,…
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Some Muslim Actors are Finally Playing Themselves Onscreen. Is There Room for More?
It wasn’t so long ago that Hollywood was painting Caucasian actors’ faces to play Native Americans. It wasn’t so long ago that Latino actors were cast to play Arabs and/or Mid-eastern nationalities. Things are definitely changing. Check out this release. At the bottom is the email address to contact them:…
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Movie Review: ‘I Care A Lot’ – How Dark is Too Dark?
At what point does “dark comedy” become so dark that it’s no longer funny? That’s a line that ‘I Care A Lot’ tiptoes on for two hours, occasionally flailing its arms and falling off to one side. It’s an interesting watch because the film skillfully plays with your expectations, but…
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Oscar Nominee Review: Is ‘Nomadland’ the Best Picture?
It’s so low-key and observational that you worry all the hype will work against people’s expectations. I hope not. Nomadland, officially a 2020 release for awards purposes, is, yes, I’ll say it, one of the year’s very best films. On my personal list, it’s moved just ahead of Promising Young…
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Concert Cruises Are Selling New Shows. Are You Ready to Set Sail Yet?
Before the days of Covid – music vacation cruises were more popular than ever and still on the rise. It sounds like a fun idea: spend a few days or a week on a cruise ship with some of your favorite musical artists. Who knows, maybe you’ll bump into them…
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Movie Review: ‘Test Pattern’ 3 out of 4 Stars.
Self-branded as a “Psychological Thriller,” perhaps because this is a film not easily categorized, ‘Test Pattern’ is in no way a thriller. But is it interesting? Does it examine territory rarely represented in the movies? Yes and yes. Very much an art-house film, but gorgeously wrought and with an amazing…
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Movie Review: ’17 Blocks’ is an Emotional Eye-Opener
Spanning twenty years in the lives of a Washington DC family, and evoking virtually every emotion along the way, ‘17 Blocks’ alternately rides waves of despair and anger with an occasional ray real hope that somehow, someday, this family who lives 17 blocks from the United States Capitol building will…
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Wolfgang Van Halen Drops Two Singles +Album Release Date. Listen Here!
There is no bigger Michael Anthony fan than I. It’s true that he was the only one of the original band who didn’t look like a rockstar, but he could sing his balls off. Those high harmonies that he contributed are as important to the VH signature as Eddie’s guitar…
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‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Graphic Novels Coming with Movie’s Release
There’s actually so much new stuff coming out that I’ll start with the calendar so we don’t get lost. The movie is scheduled to be theatrically released internationally on March 26, 2021, and in the United States on March 31, where it will be released simultaneously in theaters and on HBO…
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Oscar Nominee Review: ‘Minari’ – Heartwarming, Heartbreaking
Director Lee Isaac Chung is already racking up the accolades this awards season with his semi-autobiographical film, Minari. It’s true that there are certain touchstones present in every immigrant story – I was just thinking about Barry Levinson’s Avalon (already more than 30 years old) and how, even though his…
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Review: French Exit – Just A Oui Bit Weird, But Ooh La La
I like it when characters don’t give a shit whether you like them or not. It gives them the freedom to be their authentic (fictional) selves. French Exit is populated with such characters. They’re not super sweet – at times they’re not even polite or nice – but they’re good…
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Review: ‘America’s Last Little Italy: The Hill’ 3 out of 4 Stars
Don’t you just love it when you watch something that gives you lots of “gee, I didn’t know that” moments? Unless you’re from the area, you may have never heard of the place this documentary calls “America’s Last Little Italy.” Most of what we do know seems to be through…
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Documentary ‘Fake Famous’ Reveals the Secrets to Becoming A Social Media Influencer
And they’ve built you up till you fool yourselfThat you’re somethin’ else, and it’s like a curse‘Cause you can’t live up to what they made of youAnd they tell ya that you’re losin’ friends You don’t lose when you lose fake friends ‘Fake Friends’ by Joan Jett and Kenny Laguna…
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Review: ‘Two of Us’ 3 ½ out of 4 Stars
There’s a place for usSomewhere a place for usPeace and quiet and open airWait for us somewhere ‘Somewhere’ from West Side Story by Sondheim and Bernstein If there’s one kind of story that has enthralled audiences for centuries, it’s that of star-crossed lovers. The new French film “Two of Us”…
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Review: ‘Malcolm & Marie’ Once is More Than Enough
I watched with interest, curiosity, and admiration. But when it ended, I knew that ‘Malcolm & Marie, now on Netflix, is a film that I will never see again. In the end, exasperation eclipsed all other emotions. Beautifully presented in high contrast black and white, the film is essentially a…
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Review: ‘Al Davis vs The NFL’ | A Stylish Look at the Glory Days | 3 out of 4 Stars
I hated Oakland Raiders team owner Al Davis at the time, and except for George Blanda and Fred Biletnikoff, I never liked any Raiders players. I was young, but still. So it’s a testament to director Ken Rodgers’ skill as a storyteller that one comes to feel affection for the…
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Review: ‘The Night’ Interesting But Not Scary
I don’t know if they make bad movies in Iran, but I have yet to see one…and I’ve seen a lot. That said, the new film ‘The Night’ by noted director Kourosh Ahari isn’t wholly satisfying if one is expecting something super scary. If you go in with expectations more…
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Review: ‘The Little Things’ with Denzel, Rami and Jared. 2 out of 4 Stars.
Normally, this is the kind of movie I really like; the genre, the look, the cast. But somehow “The Little Things” goes down as a disappointment. Not for lack of talent. I mean three Oscar winners in the cast, all of whom deliver exactly the performances you expect from them.…
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Watch This Doc About the Great Eva Cassidy Here for Free
I just found out, thanks to my friend, Jeff – there’s a documentary about the late, great Eva Cassidy, and you can watch it free, right now, right here: A new article by the great John Kelly in the Washington Post tells the story of Eva beautifully, just just a…
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Review: The Lady and the Dale – Take This Ride!!
If The Lady and the Dale were just about a talented con-man who learned the art of the hustle at an early age, it would be worth watching. If it were just about that same grifter and his wife and 5 kids constantly moving from one part of the country…
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Review: New Prog Rock Supergroup Arc of Life Make the Music Accessible
Just the other day, I mentioned to a fellow music nerd that the genre that would surely put me to sleep the fastest would be early 70s Prog Rock from the likes of Genesis and YES. To be fair, I was talking about songs clocking in at over twenty minutes.…
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Movie Review: Go/Don’t Go 1½ out of 4 Stars
Your mind wanders as you watch Go/Don’t Go, the low-budget Indie written, starring and directed by Alex Knapp, in which it is gradually revealed that he’s the last man on earth, so far as we can tell. Adam (Knapp) is the only guy around. He lives inside his head, remembering…
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Review: “One Night in Miami” |The Oscar Buzz is Real
Clay had defeated reigning heavyweight champ Sonny Liston just the night before, but each man was at the top of his respective game. And yet, they endured the kinds of indignities that no amount of success could alter: the color of their skin.
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‘Assassins’ Review: Is Truth More Bizarre Than Fiction?
By Kyle Osborne If we have learned anything in this age in which we live, it should be: Everything is being recorded on camera, everywhere, all the time. And The recordings rarely tell the whole story. Because of these two bits of reality, documentary filmmaker Ryan White, of whom I…
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Oscar Nominee Review: “Promising Young Woman” A Must See!
By Kyle Osborne Do NOT watch the trailer for this movie. Don’t read any reviews that would spoil it (I promise no spoilers. I mean, never spoilers) and don’t ask anyone about it. Just watch Promising Young Woman as blindly as possible. I’m so glad that I saw it knowing…
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Review: Kick Ass Movie “Rock Camp” Released Today On Demand!
Review: Rock Camp | 3 out of 4 Stars | Not Rated By Kyle Osborne A cynical person would say that “Rock Camp” is really just a long infomercial for Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp, and maybe it is. But I don’t care – the ordinary people who attend these…
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Review: “The Marksman” Hits Just One Target
By Kyle Osborne You know, sometimes all you want from a movie is for it to be completely predictable. You want the good guy to wear a white hat and the bad guy to twirl his handlebar moustache. You don’t want one.single.thing to happen that hasn’t been telegraphed in advance.…
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Review: MLK/FBI 4 Stars. Gripping and Revealing
Review: MLK/FBI | Gripping and Revealing By Kyle Osborne More than half a century after his assassination, one would have thought that we’d seen and heard all there was to learn about Martin Luther King, Jr. Certainly anyone past grade school can recite at least one of the civil rights…
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Review: “Zappa” Documentary Not Just For Hardcore Fans| 3 ½ out of 4 Stars
Review: Zappa | 3 ½ out of 4 Stars | Not Rated | By Kyle Osborne When I was 21 years old, I interviewed Frank Zappa backstage before a show in Brussels, Belgium. He was not happy to be there. He was exactly twice my age on that night, and…
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Oscar Nominee Review: “Soul” | 4 out of 4 Stars
Review: Soul | 4 out of 4 Stars | Rated PG | By Kyle Osborne “Soul,” the latest feature from Pixar Animation is deep. It’s very deep, yet it’s also delightful. How did they do that? I dunno, man. It’s magic. As amazing as the other Pixar films have been along…
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Oscar Nominee Review: Mank |3 ½ out of 4 Stars
Review: Mank | 3 ½ out of 4 Stars | By Kyle Osborne What I liked about “Mank” is its rhythm, – the cadence of the dialogue and the almost musical beats in the editing. Gary Oldman delivers his lines like he’s calmly snapping your neck with a rubber band.…
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Oscar Nominee Review: News of the World | 2 Stars
Review: News of the World | 2 out of 4 Stars | PG-13 By Kyle Osborne It’s being billed as Tom Hanks’ first Western, but “News of the World” is simply a road movie. Like Midnight Run or Rain Man or Planes, Trains, and Automobiles…except not so great. The slow-pokey…
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Review: Wonder Woman 1984 | 2 ½ out of 4 Stars
Review: Wonder Woman 1984 | 2 ½ out of 4 Stars | PG-13 By Kyle Osborne Wonder Woman 1984 (stylized as WW84) would have been a four star movie if it’d been about an hour shorter. Alas, the considerable goodwill begins to wane heading toward the conclusion at 2 ½…
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Review: ESPN’s Doc on Women’s Football Hits Hard
By Kyle Osborne You know the Patriots, the Red Sox, the Celtics and the Bruins, but have you ever heard of the Boston Renegades? You’d be in rare company if you did. In the documentary Born to Play, which debuts July 1st at 9 EDT on ESPN, director Viridiana Lieberman…
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Movie Review: ‘All I Can Say’ – Blind Melon’s Shannon Hoon Filmed His Own Doc
All I Can Say | 2 out of 4 Stars | Not Rated By Kyle Osborne The “Bee Girl” was everywhere in 1993. You couldn’t turn on MTV without seeing the video for the Blind Melon song, “No Rain.” Interspersed with the inscrutable girl were the band members, performing a…
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Review: ‘Incitement’ 3 out of 4 Stars
By Kyle Osborne How does a young man go from being a promising law student with a nice girlfriend to a Right Wing zealot who thinks he’s doing God’s work by killing the Prime Minister of Israel? The new film “Incitement” takes us through those steps, many of which must…
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Review: Color Out of Space | 2 ½ out of 4 Stars | NR
Color Out of Space | 2 ½ out of 4 Stars | Not Rated By Kyle Osborne If you go into Color Out of Space completely blind, the sci-fi thriller plays almost like a Roger Corman B-movie; sort of overcooked, yet under developed. All of it punctuated by Nicolas Cage…
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They Call Me Mister: How I Ended Up On a Remote Island in the Java Sea.
From Kyle Osborne They call me “Mister.” I mean, to be fair, they call all Caucasian guys “Mister” here on the tiny Indonesian island of Belitung. It sounds like they’re mimicking dialogue from a 1930’s Film Noir. ,”Hey Mister,” they call out as they whiz by on their scooters, genuinely excited…
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Review: “Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound”| 3 ½ out of 4 Stars |
By Kyle Osborne Every year at the Oscars comes the few minutes where we fidget, or go to the bathroom or check to see if we’re winning the office Oscar pool. I speak of the hurried acceptance speeches of the winners for Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing. Usually…
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Review: The Irishman | 4 out of 4 Stars | Rated R
By Kyle Osborne You might well say that director Martin Scorsese is plowing familiar ground in The Irishman, an epic mobster movie that features his two legendary go-to guys: Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. But, come on, who would you rather see at the helm of a 3 ½…
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Review: ‘Joker’ | 3 ½ out of 4 Stars | Rated R
“Joker”| 3 ½ out of 4 Stars | Rated R By Kyle Osborne I trashed my original review-I did the present day version of ripping the paper from the typewriter, noisily wadding the paper into a ball and chucking it in the trash can. Why? Because I had fallen into…
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Review: Where’s My Roy Cohn? | 3 out of 4 Stars
Where’s My Roy Cohn? | 3 out of 4 Stars | Rated PG-13 By Kyle Osborne Attorney Roy Cohn died more than 30 years ago, yet his presence, or rather his lack of presence, looms large in the current White House. Cohn, after all, was once the mentor to New…
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Review: “Good Boys” is good, (not so) clean fun | 3 ½ out of 4 Stars
Review: “Good Boys”| 3 ½ out of 4 Stars | Rated R By Kyle Osborne Remember back in 2004 when the Tony Award-winning musical “Avenue Q” was all the rage? The writers hit upon a novel idea that worked: take something innocent like warm, fuzzy puppets…and make them say the most…
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The Nightingale | 3 out of 4 Stars | Rated R
The Nightingale | | Rated R By Kyle Osborne By turns horrific, haunting, and visually rich, “The Nightingale” is an original spin on a revenge tale. Director Jennifer Kent (“The Babadook”) takes us to a time and place we’ve likely not seen in a movie: Tasmania, circa 1825, but material is…
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Review: ‘David Crosby: Remember My Name’| 3 ½ out of 4 Stars |
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