This week underscores the essential difference between previews and the movies they hype. Like comparing video game demos to the full version or a jacket description to the book it covers, the hard sell avoids the bad in favor of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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What an odd week for movies. There’s a remake of a 1970’s thriller that I’d never heard of, a psychological piece of science fiction staring Sam Rockwell, a documentary that will scare you out of eating, and an Eddie Murphy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We are lucky enough this week to have one critic who saw everything. He will be our reviewer benchmark and we’re even luckier that it’s legendary reviewer Roger Ebert. Now, I have an old relationship with Ebert that goes all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We have emerged from the tunnel of action films and entered the wide-open spaces of summer entertainment. Up until this week, most multiplexes hosted only superhero and science fiction actioners. Now, Hollywood has laid out a plethora of options for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…