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Monday, October 24, 2022

Star Command: TICKET TO PARADISE

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There’s a scene late in Ticket to Paradise when stars Julia Roberts and George Clooney, playing a divorced couple who have heretofore been ...
Sunday, October 23, 2022

Anti-Hero: BLACK ADAM

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Here we are again. Black Adam is another walloping might-makes-right superhero power fantasy. It mistakes noise and movement and non-stop vi...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Past Participants: THE GREATEST BEER RUN EVER and AMSTERDAM

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We flatter ourselves if we think we’re better than the past just because we know how it’ll turn out. A story’s ending, after all, depends so...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Finale Girls: HALLOWEEN ENDS

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The trick to making the umpteenth entry in a long-running series is getting the exact right balance of new ideas and old familiar ones. Davi...
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Mixed Metaphors: BLONDE and DON'T WORRY DARLING

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Marilyn Monroe has always been treated as, to borrow a phrase from Rodgers and Hammerstein, an empty page that men would like to write on. T...
Sunday, October 2, 2022

Darn Ya: SMILE

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Horror movies love a good supernatural infection, although it plays admittedly extra unsettling after our pandemic experiences. We know all ...
Friday, September 23, 2022

Characters Welcome: PEARL and CONFESS, FLETCH

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Ti West’s Pearl is an unusual horror prequel, and all the better for it. The movie follows a few weeks in the life of a young woman who’ll ...
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