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While it’s not quite bad enough to make you long for the bad old days of “jiggle TV,” it’s also hard to shake the feeling that the old “Angels,” as offensive as it was, was at least a little more fun than this. via “Charlie’s Angels” have fallen — Static and Screen

As disposable as the film is, it’s hard to completely denigrate a film that has this much willingness to make you chuckle. Laughter is good medicine, especially right now, and Bautista and company dispense it with ease. via “My Spy” has an arsenal full of laughs — Static and Screen

Even as the impossibilities of the plot swirl around them like a gathering storm, Oyelowo and Reid stand firm as the film’s emotional anchors. via “Don’t Let Go” of these great actors — Static and Screen

By depicting the brutality of the Soviet regime, Holland reminds us of the value of human life and of the press, and how the latter has an integral role in preserving the former. via Thesis, truth and “Mr. Jones” — Static and Screen

It makes you feel so … embarrassed and ashamed: At the foot of Mount Rushmore’s granite monument to his presidential forebears, President Trump on Friday delivered a dark speech ahead of Independence Day in which he sought to exploit the nation’s racial and social divisions and rally supporters around a law-and-order message that has become… via… Continue reading American carnage Part II — Digby’s Hullabaloo

Enjoy your cookout, movie night, fireworks or whatever else you are doing safely on this 4th of July. There is a lot to think about this year. Email via Patriotism — Digby’s Hullabaloo

I’m sure you’ve heard the expression “Hotter than the 4th of July”? Ice tea on standby: Coronavirus. Massive unemployment. Murder hornets. Saharan dust… How could 2020 get any worse, you might ask. With record-breaking scorching heat. That’s how. Meteorologists on Tuesday revealed that July could bring unusually hot temperatures for more than two-thirds of the […]… Continue reading The Big Heat: The 10 Sweatiest Film noirs (and Neo-noirs) — Digby’s Hullabaloo

The Adjustment Bureau is a 2011 American science fiction romantic thriller film written and directed by George Nolfi, based on the 1954 Philip K. Dick short story “Adjustment Team”.To make a practice of watching movies, I have managed to get three lessons from the movie. via Things I Learned From The Movie : The Adjustment Bureau… Continue reading Things I Learned From The Movie : The Adjustment Bureau — thegraysagewrites

Once again, I could not find a youtube video link of Moviedrome presenter Alex Cox introducing director Edward Dmytryk’s 1962 screen adaptation of writer Nelson Algren’s 1956 novel Walk on the Wild Side, readers will have to rely on Cox’s intro transcript (read here). The episode’s original airdate was August 19, 1990 (read here). Not […]… Continue reading Moviedrome Mondays: Walk on the Wild Side (1962) — cinematiccoffee

Since I could not find a youtube video link of Moviedrome presenter Alex Cox introducing indie director/writer Jim Jarmusch’s 1986 deadpan crime comedy Down by Law, readers will have to rely on a page in the book of an old Moviedrome guide (read here), since the link to that episode transcript is missing (read here). […]… Continue reading Moviedrome Mondays: Down by Law (1986) — cinematiccoffee