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Highly anticipated ‘The Girl on the Train’ ultimately derails
By Mike Wilmington THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN is a chic romantic crime thriller in the “GONE GIRL” mode — but not as engrossing or gripping, nor as packed with interesting characters and wicked plot...
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TCM Classic Film Fest provides ample opps to feast on film
By the end of the TCM Classic Film Festival on Sunday night, we were bleary-eyed and decidedly not bushy-tailed. But we were blissed out on terrific movies! In “Brief Encounter,” Celia Johnson and...
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Start summer with a chilling classic …
Chinatown/1974/Paramount/130 min. By Michael Wilmington Noah Cross (John Huston) tells J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) what’s what. “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.” Those are the last words, chilling,...
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Noir City: Hollywood, TCM Classic Film Festival and COLCOA French Film...
Calling all cinephiles: Three great festivals are about to kick off… Noir City: Hollywood will run Friday, March 24, to Sunday, April 2, at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The famed fest is...
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With ‘Prevenge,’ Alice Lowe pops out a classic
Prevenge/2016/88 min. I don’t know filmmaker and mother Alice Lowe but I’d be willing to bet that if she was given a baby shower, she banned boring guessing games and gluten-free, sugarless cupcakes....
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‘L.A. Confidential,’ a neo-noir classic, turns 20
Tonight at the Laemmle Fine Arts Theatre in Beverly Hills: Oscar winner Kim Basinger and co-star Guy Pearce will participate in a Q&A after a screening of ‘L.A. Confidential’! Upon the film’s...
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Highly anticipated ‘Snowman’ turns out to be mostly slush
Looking at the billboard posters for “The Snowman” (2017, Tomas Alfredson), I had the feeling that if I paid close attention while watching the movie, I might see a red flag or perhaps spot a clue that...
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‘Film Stars’ offers fine performances, but doesn’t do full justice to the...
“Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool,” is Paul McGuigan’s film based on Peter Turner’s memoir of his relationship with actress Gloria Grahame, near the end of her life. (She died in New York City on Oct....
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Noir royalty ‘Le Cercle Rouge’ boasts Melville’s chaste classic style, five...
By Mike Wilmington Film Noir has many faces and that’s proven once again with the French noirs, old and new, shown this year at the 21st edition of the COLCOA French Film Festival, April 24 to May 2 at...
View Article‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ is a flaky, flimsy fairy tale that’s still...
For Angelenos, “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” by Quentin Tarantino, is required viewing if you 1) are too young to have any idea who Charlie Manson’s family was 2) love Brad Pitt 3) are craving...
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