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Ricki and the Flash ***½ (2015, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Mamie Gummer, Rick Springfield, Audra McDonald) – Movie Review
Nothing stops Meryl Streep. The three-time Oscar-winner stars as Ricki, a hard-rocking, singing guitar chick who years back gave up everything for her dream of rock-and-roll stardom, which somehow has never happened. In Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo […]
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl ***½ (2015, Thomas Mann, R J Cyler, Olivia Cooke, Connie Britton, Nick Offerman, Molly Shannon, Jon Bernthal) – Movie Review
Thomas Mann stars as eccentric but essentially nice 17-year-old Pittsburgh high schooler Greg, who makes parodies of classic movies with his buddy Earl (R J Cyler) but otherwise has no friends. ‘We make films,’ says Greg. […]
American Ultra ** (2015, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Connie Britton, Topher Grace, John Leguizamo, Bill Pullman, Walton Goggins, Tony Hale) – Movie Review
Jesse Eisenberg stars as small-town stoner Mike Howell, who works in a mini-mart and is writing a graphic novel about a superhero monkey (Apollo Ape) but doesn’t know he was trained by the CIA to be a lethal […]
Gemma Bovery *** (2014, Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng, Niels Schneider, Isabelle Candelier) – Movie Review
Gallic charmer Fabrice Luchini exactly hits the spot as Martin Joubert, a well-heeled ex-Parisian over-passionate about the writer Gustave Flaubert, who has settled into a French Norman village as a baker. She is married to […]
Dope *** (2015, Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons, Zoe Kravitz, Kimberly Elise, A$AP Rocky) – Movie Review
Shameik Moore impresses in his first lead role as geeky young Malcolm in writer-director Rick Famuyiwa’s bright and lively coming-of-age comedy drama, produced by Forest Whitaker and Nina Yang. It pulls off the trick of […]
The Serpent and the Rainbow *** (1988, Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield) – Classic Movie Review 2872
Director Wes Craven tackles the darkly disturbing dreams of the undead in this creepy 1988 voodoo hokum carefully tailored for horror buffs. Bill Pullman stars as Dennis Alan, an anthropologist who goes to Haiti to investigate […]
Swamp Thing *** (1982, Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise) – Classic Movie Review 2871
Writer-director Wes Craven’s 1982 cult horror comic movie, based on Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson‘s D C Comic book characters, is reasonably engaging and amusing. Ray Wise stars as a research scientist Dr Alec Holland, […]