You didn’t ask, but I’m going to tell you anyway. The late great film critic Roger Ebert kept a regular column, “The Movie Answer Man,” to respond to all the questions he received from curious readers. The Coeur d’Alene Press doesn’t field quite as many film queries, but we love pretending to be the size […]
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Trying to appease all types of fans and regular moviegoers, the new “Ghostbusters” film, subtitled “Frozen Empire,” introduces a half-dozen decent ideas and fails to deliver on any of them. Without divulging spoilers, “Frozen Empire” assembles 12 different characters for a finale in which only two of them have anything to do. Everyone else just
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The Coen Brothers make movies unlike most everything on the market. Even then, their filmography can be splintered into distinct flavor types, from something as gripping and serious as “No Country for Old Men” to the absurdist worlds of “Raising Arizona” and “The Big Lebowski.” After the release of their Western anthology film, “The Ballad
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If you get room service delivered to your car while you’re on a stakeout, chances are you’re about to get a banana in your tailpipe. It’s another masterful Eddie Murphy performance in the action-comedy “Beverly Hills Cop.” Operating in a fairly standard cop procedural plot, Murphy elevates every scene as the impulsive, insubordinate and fast-talking
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Raptors speak! Kinda. “Jurassic Park III” gets a lot of grief for being silly, short and a little too far removed from the majesty and grandeur of the Steven Spielberg-directed efforts. But that’s kinda why we like it! “Jurassic Park III” just wants to be a breezy thrill machine, and it will do whatever it
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Well would you look at this morose *expletive deleted* right here. Smells like someone *expletive deleted* in your cereal. It’s important to remember just how well-received “Chasing Amy” was back in 1997. Writer/director Kevin Smith followed his breakthrough debut “Clerks” with the then-ignored “Mallrats.” Smith scaled back for a relationship drama about Holden McNeil (Ben
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Expecto patronum! Expelliarmus! Exfoliate-ess! Journey back to Hogwarts and the early stages of puberty with “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” the third installment in the J.K. Rowling-inspired movie franchise. It’s time to get SERIOUS in Harry Land thanks to director Alfonso Cuaron, hot off that other popular children’s franchise, “Y Tu Mama, Tambien.”
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“The sauce-a you can have, but the secret? She’s A MINE!” Another “Saved by the Bell” episode that begins one way and takes a hard turn into another plotline entirely. The gang produces a cable access news broadcast, but Screech’s cooking segment inexplicably sparks a sensation around Bayside. He also makes incredible spaghetti sauce, and
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“Listen you little wiseacre. I’m smart; you’re dumb. I’m big; you’re little. I’m right; you’re wrong. And there’s nothing you can do about it.” – Parents to their kids during the 2020 quarantine. Actually, that’s a Danny DeVito rant from “Matilda,” a charming movie adaptation of the Roald Dahl children’s book. Most of the adults
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“We need Doc Brown to sort out the timelines of this show.” – Jonah Anderson, world’s foremost expert on “Saved by the Bell.” The “Saved by the Bell” continuity is… confusing. Never mind the fact the powers-that-be want you to think “Good Morning Miss Bliss” is the first season of the show (it isn’t). Things
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