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Front Row at the Movies: Fly Me to the Moon
Suppose you took two older movies – say, “Capricorn One,” a fanciful film suggesting that the moon landing was faked, and “Wag the Dog,” a film about using Hollywood to fake a war – and turned them into a rom-com starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum?
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Tropic Sprockets: Last Summer
Catherine Breillat is known for pushing the envelope, and she does so here in “Last Summer,” a remake of the 2019 Danish film “Queen of Hearts” and an engrossing objective analysis of an incestuous situation between stepmother and stepson. The matter-of-fact dispassionate tone is certain to challenge assumptions.
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Tropic Sprockets: The Bikeriders
That being said, the action is brisk, and the acting is solid. While the cliches are in place, full of punches, squared shoulders, and sulking speech, the film is testament to how potent yet also how dated and very unreal the concept of the reckless and bruising male remains.
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Front Row at the Movies: MaXXXine
Director Ti West continues his homage to horror films with “MaXXXine,” the third installment in his “X” film series. This is a direct sequel to “X” (2022) and a compliment to its prequel “Pearl” (2022). All three have starred Mia Goth, who seems to be Ti’s muse.
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Tropic Sprockets: MaXXXine
The sheer volume of film references combined with the iconic sight of Mia Goth, who recalls Nancy Allen from Brian De Palma fame, makes this film a sight, but its impersonal spaced-out tone, feels distant and lacks charge.
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Tropic Sprockets: Fancy Dance
Erica Tremblay strikes an affecting and empathetic first film with “Fancy Dance,” which underscores the existential plight of the Native American community in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Tropic Sprockets: Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
It is an ambitious undertaking in this day and age of 90-minute post pandemic cinema, and Costner as director hits the perfect comforting Western notes, with grand landscapes and a majestic score.
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Front Row at the Movies: Horizon: An American Saga
From his Oscar-winning “Dances With Wolves” to “Open Range” to TV’s more recent “Yellowstone” – 69-year-old Kevin Costner has thrived with the Western genre. So Costner is trying to capture lightning in a bottle again, coming up with his own cowboy tale that’s so large he plans to tell it as four sequential movies.
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Front Row at the Movies: A Quiet Place: Day One
As the title suggests, this new entry “takes the action back to the first day of the invasion when we find out exactly how the world went quiet, and follows as a woman named Sam must survive an invasion in New York City by these bloodthirsty alien creatures with ultrasonic hearing.
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Tropic Sprockets: Ghostlight
In other director’s hands, these notes of guilt, fear and frustration could play like a Hallmark card of pathos, but O’Sullivan executes all of the accents with a fine understated quality that is just right,
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