Moving On (2023) movie review & film summary
Bette Davis famously owned a pillow with the adage “old age ain’t no place for sissies” stitched across it. This truism is at the heart of writer/director Paul Weitz’s “Moving On,” which stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as Claire…
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Halloween Ends movie review & film summary (2022)
I wrote in my review of the 2018 reboot of “Halloween” that the team behind the film didn’t “really understand what made the first film a masterpiece.” Not to be that guy, but if the cluttered “Halloween Kills” didn’t prove…
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Lou (2022) movie review & film summary
When I told my wife that I had to watch “An Allison Janney Action Movie” for a review this week, she was a little startled (although interested in the concept, to be fair). I’m all for unexpected casting, and the…
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Samaritan ‘Sylvester Stallone’: movie review & film summary (2022)
“25 years ago the world’s greatest superhero vanished,” according to the poster for Prime Video’s “Samaritan.” The narration by Sam (Javon ‘Wanna’ Walton) that opens the film gives us the Cliffs Notes version of how he did. Samaritan had a…
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The Sea Beast movie (2022): review & film summary
The robust family adventure “The Sea Beast,” appearing today on Netflix, is one of the biggest movie surprises of the year so far. Fun, smart, and sneakily deep, it has elements that will be familiar to families around the world….
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The Valet: Movie Review & Film Summary
The tropes in play in “The Valet” are those of culture-clash romcoms, where two people of different backgrounds have to somehow reconcile and merge their worlds. The movie also belongs to that very satisfying sub-category of romcom where two people…
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