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That Hamilton Woman
Older viewers will remember George Hamilton as a maximally tanned, minimally talented Hollywood actor whose fame in the 1970s and '80s was completely out...
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Dom Hemingway (R) Jude Law stars in this comedy as a London safe-cracker who looks to collect on an old debt after doing 12...
Hustlers: Money Moves
I’ve been on the “Jennifer Lopez can act” bandwagon ever since I saw Out of Sight back in 1998. It has been rough sledding...
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American Assassin (R) Dylan O’Brien continues to bore me to tears in this thriller about an American tourist who turns himself into a vigilante...
Raging Fire: Yen for Justice
The Hong Kong filmmaker Benny Chan was working on Raging Fire in 2019 when he was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer. He died from the...
Second Best Indeed
I was lukewarm on The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel when it opened two summers ago, so you probably won’t be surprised that I had...
Super Sibs
Hollywood turns out so many movies about superheroes or people who acquire superpowers. It’s probably just a coincidence that the two out this week...
The Royal Hotel: Don’t Blame It on the Alcohol
I didn’t hop on the hype train for The Assistant when I saw it in 2020. While I pegged director Kitty Green as someone...
Leftover Star Trek thoughts (and a defense of the fanboys)
With the release of the new Star Trek movie, your local movie theater will once again become nerd central. With it comes a wave...
Meta Man
With Deadpool, the Marvel Comics movies definitively burst into their decadent phase. Other superhero films (including some of Marvel’s) have riffed comically about the...
