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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix cri-fi movie).
You’re welcome to assemble the puzzle with the new Netflix crime film, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. In the sequel to Rian…
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November 2021
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Red Notice: cri-fi/caper movie, film review by Mark Kermode.
The cri-fi movie, Red Notice, is reviewed by our man of many movies, Mark Kermode. There is an FBI agent, the world’s most…
April 2020
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John Turturro interview: his The Big Lebowski sequel, The Jesus Rolls (by Mark Kermode).
John Turturro is interviewed by that man-of-much-movies, Mark Kermode, about his The Big Lebowski sequel, The Jesus Rolls. The Jesus Rolls is a…
December 2019
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The Gentlemen (cri-fi film review: by Mark Kermode).
Our many of many movies, Mark Kermode, sits down to watch the Guy Ritchie cri-fi movie The Gentlemen, in which a British drug…
September 2019
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The Day Shall Come (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
Moses is the head of a very tiny church in Miami–less than a handful of members–that preaches that the Great Inversion is coming.…
July 2019
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The Irishman (Netflix tempts Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro into new Cri-Fi film).
Netflix is bringing us a new Scorsese and De Niro crime flick (with a little added Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel just for…
May 2019
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Room For Rent (2019) (a psychological thriller film review by Mark R. Leeper).
Joyce, a woman recently widowed, finds she has been left deeply in debt by her late husband. Desperate for a source of income,…
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El Chicano (2019) [a film review by Frank Ochieng]
The super-hero film craze has proven to be popcorn-pleasing box office gold over the last several years or so within Hollywood circles. Plus,…
February 2019
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Shaft (2019) (Reboot with Samuel L. Jackson).
Here’s the trailer for the Shaft movie reboot with Samuel L. Jackson inhabiting the titular role he was surely born to play. This…
January 2019
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Widows (2018) (a film review by Frank Ochieng)
Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen (’12 Years a Slave’) commits a notable heist of his own that has nothing to do with his capable…
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Deadpool 2 (2018) (a film review by Frank Ochieng)
Deadpool rules! Okay, admittedly this is an unconventional way to segue into a film review without sounding like a giddy fanboy. Nevertheless, the…