Life in an Argentine prison during the country’s infamous Dirty War might seem like an odd backdrop for a movie musical. But, given the engaging source material on which this film is based – the 1992 Tony Award-winning hit Broadway musical featuring the compositions of John Kander and Fred Ebb (best known for their work on Cabaret) and the acclaimed 1976 novel by author Manuel Puig – this exuberant, visually involving new release succeeds in telling a captivating tale of unlikely friendship and romance between two very different cellmates during a troubled time in the Latin American nation’s h…
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Really solid crime-drama featuring great performances all around, though probably the best in Richard Gere's career. Might not have the scope of others in the genre, but this Mike Figgis directed flick was well done. **3.75/5**…
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I suppose that if you are looking for all the ingredients for a good conspiratorial story, then you could do much worse than try to connect the Chicago mob with legendary crooner Frank Sinatra and the ill-fated US President John F. Kennedy. What now ensues tries to establish a link between organised crime and Kennedy by way of some facilitation from Frank. It’s basic premise is that Kennedy Senior (Joe) wanted Sinatra to use his long-suspected underworld connections to help ensure his son was elected to the White House. Once there, though, the building blocks for his presidential bid began to …
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There are so many superlatives bandied about nowadays, but rarely can they be more appropriate than when describing the unique and charismatic Liza Minnelli. Born into Hollywood royalty and taking part quite enthusiastically here, we benefit from some well researched archive and some insightful contributions from friends and family alike to get a glimpse into the life of this flawed, vulnerable and talented superstar. The narrative is fairly chronological and if you’ve been at all interested in her career over the years then there is unlikely to be anything particularly revealing about what’s …
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From Star Trek to Dr Who to Star Wars, there is no stone that has not been unturned in the pursuit of wokeness. The Predator franchise being no exception.
"Predator: Killer or Killers" is the latest instalment in the diversity, female empowerment, social engineering experiment that's inflicted itself, on contemporary audiences. Made up of distinct predator themed stories, its annoying from the get go, not to mention eye rollingly implausible.
In summary, I could find little to nothing to like here, given how hard it was to see past the dreary miasma of politicised, social engi…
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In this age of increasingly untrustworthy AI, rampant fake news and unabashedly self-serving social media, it’s becoming ever more difficult for many of us to distinguish what’s “real” and what isn’t these days, almost as if we’re stuck in a frightening new Orwellian paradigm. That’s significant, not only for how we perceive existence, but even in terms of how we experience and respond to it. In fact, these circumstances might even be looked upon as a metaphysical or existential nightmare. So it is for Matthias (Albrecht Schuch), who works for a Vienna-based organization known as MyCompanion, …
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**_"American Werewolves in Hollywood" fumbles in the last act_**
After a young publicist and her teen brother (Christina Ricci and Jesse Eisenberg) encounter some kind of beast in Hollywood Hills, they sense strange things going on with their condition.
Helmed by Wes Craven, this comes in the tradition of the two “An American Werewolf…” movies and “The Howling” series, it just had a way bigger budget compared to the sequels in the latter franchise. It was shot in March-June, 2003, with only 6 more days to shoot the climax, but top executives at Dimension Films were not happy with…
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Promoting sickness isn't cool. Punishing this show with low ratings for its wokness crap.…
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With Chicago effectively a lawless city controlled by warring gangsters fighting over their turf and their lucrative prohibition income, opportunistic “Louie” (Lew Ayres) sees an opportunity to centralise things. A meeting, a few machine guns, and some sheer brass neck soon sees him running the racketeers and presiding over an unusually peaceful city. Then he marries his sweetheart “Doris” (Dorothy Matthews) and has something of an epiphany. He wants to hand over the reins to his deputy “Mileaway” (James Cagney) and retire to the panhandle for some well earned rest and recuperation. Without hi…
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