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Little Mermaid: Surf and Turf
I’ll tell you what my reaction was when I first saw Halle Bailey as Ariel in the trailer for The Little Mermaid. I thought,...
You Hurt My Feelings: The Whites of Their Lies
More than 20 years I’ve been banging on about Nicole Holofcener in these pages. I’m not sorry, either. She came up during the indie-film...
About My Father: Papa Loves Mambo
I caught Sebastian Maniscalco’s standup act in the early 2000s, and I didn’t care for him, with all his judgments on how men and...
Summer Movie Preview
In encouraging news for theaters, the summer season has already started out with hit returns for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Fast X....
Film Shorts // May 24-30, 2023
OPENING
It Ain’t Over (PG) Back in the 1980s, baseball statistician Bill James was making the argument that Yogi Berra’s colorful personality had come to...
Film Shorts // May 17-23, 2023
OPENING
Anni Manchi Sakunamule (NR) This Indian romantic film stars Santosh Sobhan, Malvika Nair, Ravendra Prasad, Rao Ramesh, Naresh, Gauthami, and Vennela Kishore. (Opens Friday)
Bichagadu...
BlackBerry Crumble
I never had a BlackBerry. Child of frugal immigrants that I am, I hung onto my early-1990s landline phone until it breathed its last,...
Bingo!
Resident Evil 4 (2005) reinvented the series at the time, taking a chance to mess with the formula by upping the action quota to match...
Film Shorts // May 10-16, 2023
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Book Club: The Next Chapter (PG-13) Our ladies have ditched E.L. James in the sequel to the 2018 comedy, but it doesn’t improve things...
R.I.P., Vernon Fisher
All the obituaries for Vernon Fisher are using the words “blackboard” or “chalkboard.” It is true, many of the artist’s works feature an off-black...
