Month: June 2021
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Stanley Cup Magic Starts Tonight!
KK chats with his old pal, two time Stanley Cup winner and former center for the Montreal Canadiens, Brian Skrudland to discuss the 2021 Finals. Most of my articles are about music and movies, with the odd book in there so people know I can read. But not today! Thanks to an incredibly flimsy loophole…
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The Criterion Cut: Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
We dig deep back into the Criterion Collection vault for a rare and enigmatic David Bowie performance in director Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. Another week in which I revisit a classic oldie. I first saw this film on home video sometime around 1984 or 1985. I had just discovered ‘Let’s Dance’ era David…
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Nobody – Blu ray Review
It’s highly recommended that all action movie fans add Nobody to their collection. It’s now available to own on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, DVD, and digital. Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) is not a flashy guy. Polo shirts and khakis, brown bag lunches and home in time for dinner with his kids and wife (Connie Nielsen) each…
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The Great Zoom Boom and Cosmetic Surgery: I Was A Middle-aged Moleman
Cosmetic surgery is up 90% in this Zoom Boom. In a comedic piece, Craig fights against a gross mole that tried to take him over. The inability to meet face-to-face during Covid has led to a Zoom Boom in video conferencing technology. We’ve all learned how to make sure we’re muted, the importance of waiting…
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Lazarus
Some of the execution might veer between cliched and questionable, but there is just enough fun action in Lazarus to make it worth a go. Comic book movies are not always based on the standard comic characters. It is a tone, a stylistic choice by the production, that make it a modern comic book film.…
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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
The Conjuring-verse chugs along, sometimes huffing and puffing, sometimes more effective. The Devil Made Me Do It is on the better end of the scale. The box office’s favorite supernatural investigator couple are back five years after The Conjuring 2 (but only after a short two-year gap from their extended cameos in Annabella Comes Home)…