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Movie Review: Medieval Resistance that may have Inspired Robin Hood — “The Uprising”
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (665+ words) I can’t say that one of my favorite filmmakers, Paul Greengrass, made the wisest decision in trying to make a famous “Off with their heads!” peasants’ rebellion the basis for the legend of Robin Hood. The legend seems to date…...
Movie Review: Just Close the Curtains on this “Knightfall”
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (390+ words) “Knightfall,” the latest title of a thriller that used to be called “Guy Fawkes: Blood and Fire,” is a B, C or D movie starring the dye-job-fools-no-one son of the funniest James Bond and a little known actress who looks…...
Movie Review: A Legend of the Steppes Gives the Mongols What For — “Rise of the Conqueror”
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (820+ words) A Danish American bit-player rolls the dice as star and co-writer of a big-screen Medieval combat period piece in “Rise of the Conqueror,” a good looking but strained bit of mid-Mongol Empire history shot where all of this really happened…...
Movie Review: A Buddy Comedy (?) with Organ Donation and a Big Body Count — “Runner”
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (654+ words) The distributing studios may sweat over the fact that MGM’s “Runner” showed up on streaming just as Angel Studios’ “The Runner” was trotting into theaters. One stars Gal Gadot as a lawyer/mother sprinting across London to murder a prosecution…...
Classic Film Review: The Sweetest Stoner Comedy of them all — “Saving Grace” (2000)
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (489+ words) A lot of stars slipped into allignment to get the twee British pot comedy “Saving Grace” into theaters. It featured Brenda Blethyn in the title role, fresh off two recent Oscar nominations. The film co-starred and was scripted by Craig…...
Netflixable? “Husbands in Action” serve up Korean Goofballs in a Kidnapping Caper
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (796+ words) If you watch one screwball Korean action comedy this year… Damn. I just can’t pull the trigger on that sort of endorsement for “Husbands in Action,” a dopier-than-dopey kidnapping caper that “TV-MA” rating or not, seems aimed at kids. Wacky…...
Movie Review: Ryan R. and Kenneth B. gun for “Top Gun” — “Mayday”
1+ week, 3+ day ago (499+ words) Let’s go with “adorably awful,” because “delightfully dumb” seems like a stretch. “Mayday” is a pseudo-serious send-up of “Top Gun” starring two guys who should know better, but whose way with a punch line ensures it’ll at least serve up…...
Classic Film Review: Hello, Dolly — “9 to 5” becomes a Clarion Call for Working Women
1+ week, 4+ day ago (817+ words) You know and I know the title song “9 to 5” was always better than the movie “9 to 5,” right? Memory can fix a “classic” film’s failings, and this one — a big, touched-a-nerve hit when it premiered in 1980 — lumbers along for a solid…...
Netflixable? DeNiro, Monaghan and Scott need answers from “The Whisper Man”
2+ week, 9+ hour ago (671+ words) Crackling performances and a twisty plot that mixes melodrama with suspense recommend “The Whisper Man,” a new thriller based on an Alex North novel. It’s “Silence of the Lambs” paying homage to “The Slender Man,” a tale of fathers and…...
BOX OFFICE: “Coyote vs. Acme” bests “Dog Stars,” “Insidious” slides behind “Odyssey,” “Spider-Man” takes another Weekend
2+ week, 17+ hour ago (445+ words) I’m standing at the cineplex Thursday night pondering, “Do I duck into ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ after catching “The Dog Stars,” or do I just wait until those “Idiots” Dave Franco and O’Shea Jackson, Jr. show up? Silly me. While we…...