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Dec 17, 2024
‘Gladiator’ all over: Try on these sword-and-sandals epics
Regarding Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, the sequel to his Gladiator (2000): What would the world do without gladiator movies? The ones set in the...
Nov 5, 2024
Film Review: Home alone in ‘Heretic’
Hugh Grant isn’t used to being mixed up in a screenplay quite as messy and perplexing as Heretic’s is. Although, he’s undoubtedly visited the...
Sep 27, 2024
Film review: ‘Megalopolis’ is Satyricon 2024
A curious experience, this Megalopolis. Francis Ford Coppola’s 40th directorial effort has the antiqued flavor of a valedictory mega-production—especially given its opening night live-action...
Aug 10, 2024
Film review: ‘Cuckoo’ takes time to sort out
Cuckoo clocks in at 102 minutes, but it will take at least that long for even the most forgiving horror movie fan to sort...
Jun 29, 2024
‘Kinds of Kindness’ is Kind of a Chore
Here’s a quick “Test Your Entertainment-Biz Marketing Skills” quiz. How many aware, intelligent moviegoers wake up in the morning with the thought, “Gee, I’d...
May 14, 2024
‘Evil Does Not Exist’ Gets Back to Nature
In a Japanese mountain community not far from Tokyo, a quiet, unassuming handyperson named Takumi (played by Omika Hitoshi) lives with his eight-year-old daughter,...
Apr 9, 2024
Film Review: ‘Kim’s Video’
The late, lamented video store culture and its fanatics always make good copy for whimsical news coverage. Even the most hidebound, no-nonsense media outlet...
Mar 19, 2024
Film Review: ‘Carol Doda Topless at the Condor’
Just when it seems that San Francisco’s dope, sex and rock ’n’ roll scene in the 1960s has been covered from every conceivable angle,...