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Cinemavino — Episode 16: Let’s Get Dabney Coleman an Oscar::rating::0::rating::0::rating::0
N o,  seriously.  Dabney Coleman needs an Academy Award.  Where would our movie-going lives be without him?  Coleman was the go-to guy when an 80s movie needed an asshole authority figure.  When it came to playing an oily dude in a cheap suit, pulling drags off a cigarette and firing sexist one-liners, nobody did it better.  ("What's…
March 24, 20191Comment
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Us (2019)::rating::4
U s is one of those movies that will provoke polarized responses from audiences and lots of flowery adjectives from a needlessly verbose individual like me.  At once, this movie is audacious, infectiously funny, and relentlessly weird.  Writer-director Jordan Peele simultaneously blends unsettling suspense with an off-center wackiness that will frustrate some viewers and enthrall others.…
March 22, 20190Comments
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Wonder Park (2019)::rating::2.5
I t was about midway through Wonder Park, and the little boy behind me and three seats over had already had his fill.  He let out a bloodcurdling, paint-peeling scream.  "I want race cars!!!"  His mother shushed him, which only served to set a fire in the boy's threenager heart.  He took his 80oz bucket of Mr.…
March 20, 20190Comments
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Apollo 11 (2019)::rating::4
O n a sweltering day in September 1962, President John F. Kennedy outlined an audacious plan:  Before the decade was over, the United States would put a man on the moon and safely splash him down on Earth.  It'd been less than sixty years since the Wright Brothers sent their wobbly flyer for a glorified…
March 19, 20190Comments
The Kid
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The Kid (2019)::rating::3
"W hen legend becomes fact, print the legend."  These words close the classic Western, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and they a make fitting valediction for frontier mythology.  Men like the Earps, the James Gang, and Billy the Kid have received so much posthumous embellishment that it's almost impossible to distinguish fact from fiction.  Where dime…
March 16, 20190Comments
Ed Wood
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Ed Wood (1994)::rating::5
O f all the film directors who've ever amassed enough work for a coherent filmography, none are more challenging than Ed Wood.  His paradoxical aesthetic boggles my ability to hand out star ratings.  For example, Plan 9 from Outer Space is rightfully held as one of the absolute worst movies ever unleashed on the public.  Yet, its pedestrian…
March 14, 20190Comments
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Camp Death III in 2D (2018)::rating::1.5
C amp Death III in 2D! clumps every moldering horror cliché into one cinematic spitwad and chucks it at the screen.    For 80 minutes, it slowly slimes downward, leaving a goofy, gory, relentlessly nihilistic parody of old-school slasher flicks in its wake.  Amusingly incoherent and unabashedly insensitive, Camp Death III is sure to provoke a range of…
March 13, 20190Comments

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