Romance

Cute ‘Freaky Friday’ (1976) leads to even better 2003 remake

When “Freakier Friday” hits theaters, it will be a sequel to the 2003 version of “Freaky Friday,” which remade the original (1976), which itself had

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Scares of ‘Dangerous Animals’ go beyond the sharks

Among the chum-bucket full of shark movies to come out of Australia in recent years, “Dangerous Animals” is one of the juiciest pieces of meat.

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Marriage, murder awkwardly mix in ‘Busman’s Honeymoon’ (1937)

For an author who believed strongly in the rules of murder mysteries (in a nutshell, playing fair with the reader and being true to reality),

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Argento’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’ (1998) a kitschy experiment

In my Dario Argento reviews up to this point in his filmography, I’ve given at least a mild recommendation to everything except 1990’s “Black Cat”

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‘It’s a Boy Girl Thing’ (2006) tackles the double empathy problem with laughs

“It’s a Boy Girl Thing” (2006) could perhaps be an honorary member of that batch of Shakespeare-inspired teen films from the early 21st century. That

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‘Gaudy Night’ (1935) explores chaos of changing times on campus

Dorothy Sayers marks the occasion of her 10th Lord Peter Wimsey bow, “Gaudy Night” (1935), with a novel that’s messy, socially fascinating, narratively ambitious, unwieldy,

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‘Have His Carcase’ (1932) coasts along with multiple intrigues

Without abandoning her obsession with detail, Dorothy L. Sayers follows the borderline unreadable “Five Red Herrings” with one of her elite novels, “Have His Carcase”

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Despite team-up, ‘Karate Kid: Legends’ is legendarily dull

If “Karate Kid: Legends” was merely a flat sequel to 2010’s “Karate Kid” – about the next kid, Li Fong (Ben Wang), mentored by Jackie

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‘Keeper of Enchanted Rooms’ (2022) and the dreariness of coziness

The cover of “Keeper of Enchanted Rooms” (2022) features a soft, inviting drawing of the house where the magical events take place, and the book

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In ‘One, Two, Three’ (1961), Wilder knows the ABC’s of good comedy

“One, Two, Three” (1961) is a good showcase of what writers Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond can do with quick-hitting language. Though it is stagier

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