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1 week ago |
bostonmovienews.com | James Verniere
Who might have guessed that the sleeper hit of the spring 2025 film-going season was going to be an action film fronted by a wispy-bearded, bleached blonde Josh Hartnett, playing a rogue CIA agent seeking an international assassin nicknamed Ghost aboard a massive, double-decker airplane? I’d say it’s “John Wick” on a plane, and it’s so completely bat shit and blissfully heavy metal that the description fits it to a tee.
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1 week ago |
bostonmovienews.com | James Verniere
The low-budget Swedish entry “Watch the Skies” appears to take its name from Christian Nyby’s 1951 science-fiction classic “The Thing from Another World ” and its final cautionary warning: “Keep watching the skies.” But what’s most noteworthy about this humble tale of a Swedish girl who believes that her missing father was abducted by a UFO is that it was dubbed using the Artificial Intelligence technique “Flawless Immersive Dubbing” that manipulates the voices and faces of the actors and...
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1 week ago |
bostonmovienews.com | James Verniere
Are you ready for “Children of the Corny?” Based on a 2020 novel by Boston University graduate Adam Cesare and directed by Eli Craig (“Tucker & Dale vs Evil”), “Clown in a Cornfield” gleefully appropriates tropes from Stephen King novels and movies (“Children of the Corn” and “It,” most obviously) and 1980s slasher flicks such as “Friday the 13th” and the “Scream” franchise. The trouble with Craig’s killer-clown pastiche is not that it is not original (it’s not supposed to be).
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2 weeks ago |
bostonmovienews.com | James Verniere
Based upon the same 1954 novel by Francoise Sagan as the 1958 Otto Preminger film starring his muse (and Joan of Arc) Jean Seberg, shortly before Seberg become an international star in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 New Wave classic “Breathless,” this new “Bonjour Tristesse” from writer-director Durga Chew-Bose, making her feature film debut, is an impressive achievement.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonmovienews.com | James Verniere
With the forgettable “Captain America: Brave New World” still in a handful of theaters, more filler from Marvel—“Thunderbolts,*”—introduces us to a band of misfit superheroes who will no doubt soon save the world from destruction. But for now, their job is to save themselves from a Cruella-like Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Yeah, it’s not much of a plot or very dramatic to be sure. But it’s what they’ve got for now. It’s not going to save the box office from its post-COVID slump. But it might keep it afloat.
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