Tag: drama
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Pride Month 2024 Review Batch: All of Us Strangers, Am I OK, Blue Jean, Gun Hill Road, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, In & Out, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Latter Days, L’immensità, Longtime Companion, Naz & Maalik, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Torch Song Trilogy, Victim
Happy Pride Month! Nope, didn’t forget this year, just delayed because of timing: all those buddy action-comedy flicks and 28 Pixar movies…June’s been busy because of theatrical release dates. It’s been a long time coming for this year’s batch of reviews of LGBTQ+-themed movies, so I’ll waste no further space. Let’s take a look at…
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The Best and the Worst from Pixar Animation Studios (#10-1)
We’ve reached the pinnacle (or the cellar?) of the list of Pixar animated features: the Top Ten. I suppose it says something that in the thirty years Pixar has been releasing full-length films, only three of the ten best have come in the last fifteen years. Pixar spoiled us out of the gate: for the…
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Dad-Dominant Review Batch (Part 3): Affliction, Blood Father, Brad’s Status, Broken Lance, Ezra, Fatherhood, Great American Pastime, Infinitely Polar Bear, Old Dads, Tarzan Finds a Son, We Bought a Zoo, When Did You Last See Your Father, World’s Greatest Dad
Happy Father’s Day! Like last year (and 2020, for that matter), I’m presenting a batch of reviews for movies focused on fathers and the relationships (good or bad) they have with their children. As always, I like to ferret out a wide variety of types, so there are dads who are doin’ a heckuva job,…
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From the Funny Pages Review Batch: Addams Family, Blondie, Boy Named Charlie Brown, Brenda Starr, Dennis the Menace, Dick Tracy, Garfield Movie, Lil Abner, Marmaduke, Modesty Blaise, Prince Valiant, Skippy
I’ve done a few themed review batches centered on films based on comic books (starting here), but now I’m taking a look at motion pictures inspired by comic strips you could find in newspapers and magazines (remember those?). I appreciate the art form—there was even a time in my life when I considered aspiring to…
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Memorial Day Review Batch (Part 2): Anzio, Big Red One, Fighting 69th, Good Morning Vietnam, Green Zone, Hook, Last Full Measure, Midnight Clear, Miracle at St. Anna, None but the Brave, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Wake Island
Memorial Day weekend is full of start-of-summer activities—the first trip to the swim club of the year, playing in the park, barbecue blowouts, fireworks and amusement parks and outdoor concerts and more. It was also at one time the kickoff to the summer movie season (hit movies like Beverly Hills Cop II, Indiana Jones and…
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Random Review Batch: Crisis, Freud’s Last Session, I Saw the TV Glow, Love Me Tender, Mon Oncle, Rat Race, Silent Fall
Today’s batch of random reviews includes Elvis Presley’s first movie, the second one featuring Jacques Tati’s Monsieur Hulot, a foray into adult drama by Debbie Reynolds, Anthony Hopkins as Sigmund Freud, an unsavory psychological thriller/mystery, Cary Grant miscast in a misfire, and one of 2024’s best to date. Crisis (1950) Directed by Richard Brooks. Starring…
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Grading the Franchise: Planet of the Apes
Grading the Franchise is a recurring feature at Cinecaps Digest where I review an entire film series. Today, it’s the science fiction action Planet of the Apes series. I knew the twist ending in advance. I knew some of the famous lines and had a general idea of the story. I’d even seen the Tim…
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Chick Flick Review Batch (Part 2): Age of Adaline, Brown Sugar, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Idea of You, In Her Shoes, Lake House, Letters to Juliet, Love Affair, Lucy Gallant, Return to Peyton Place, Stepmom, Summer Place, There’s Always Tomorrow, Walk to Remember, What to Expect When You’re Expecting
Mother’s Day 2024 has arrived, and I’m repeating the theme from last year for this celebration: the “chick flick” (romance movies, tear-jerkers, soap operas, “women’s pictures”, etc.). By “celebration”, I’m referring to the loving, lovely mothers out there; I’m certainly not going to be celebrating most of these movies. As I made clear a year…
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TV on the Big Screen Review Batch (Part 3): Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Æon Flux, Baywatch, Bean, Bewitched, Car 54 Where Are You, Dora and the Lost City of Gold, DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, Fall Guy, Miami Vice, Munsters, My Favorite Martian, X-Files
Thirteen more motion pictures based on television shows, and as you’d expect, most of them should have stayed on the small screen (or in our distant memories). Those that do work tend to have little to do with their inspirations or are so close to the source material, the movies came out when the shows…