“The Shining” plays at the Maine Film Center for one week only opening Sept. 6.
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Movie Review: ‘The Big Lebowski’ is Bridges at his best
“The Big Lebowski” is opening on the big screen at The Maine Film Center in Waterville on Aug. 30.
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Movie Review: ‘Silence of the Lambs’ keeps movie fans looking over their shoulders
Why, after all these years, have we never forgotten one of the darkest villains in movie history? Here is “Silence of the Lambs” again, after opening with little fanfare on Feb. 14, 1991, and grossing $14 million to become the number one film in box offices across the country. Anthony Hopkins quietly put his debonair […]
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Movie Review: There is no one smart guy holding up the dumb one in ‘The Instigators’
No. I don’t know what that title means or if it defines the two brain-dead, small-time corner boys played by Matt Damon and Casey Affleck in Doug Liman’s (The Bourne sequels) new comedy thriller “The Instigators” on Apple TV+. Would you believe me if I told you that the movie begins in a shrink’s office […]
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Movie Review: ‘Under Paris’ well-acted, beautifully filmed thriller
It’s on Netflix, yes it is. It’s about sharks in the Seine, yes, that Seine. Yes, sharks. In the already polluted famous river where Gene Kelly made love to Leslie Caron. If that doesn’t keep you on the beach, try this: A competing Olympic swimmer, Belgium’s Claire Michel, became sick after swimming in the […]
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Movie Review: ‘The Sting’ became a big colorful gambling melodrama, J.P. Devine writes
If you haven’t seen this 50-year-old “Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid” in pin stripe suits and soft fedoras, you’re gonna be surprised and delighted just as your family was 50 years ago.
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Movie Review: ‘The Boys in the Boat’ is old fashioned and lovable. Just love it, writes JP Devine
Here we are to welcome George Clooney’s directorial adventure into history, the little known sport of college rowing, and how America beat the Nazis at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. That’s a lot to put on screen, and George did it. Based on a best-selling book by Daniel James Brown, with a screenplay by Mark […]
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Movie Review: Hal Wyler back to old games in ‘The Diplomat’ season 2
You watched the final scenes of season one of Debora Cahn’s “The Diplomat” with eyes open wide and mouth open wide. Cahn left us dangling in our slippers with that one. A bomb went off in London as our favorite diplomat Kate Wyler (Keri Russell) attended a high-level political event in Paris. Her husband was […]
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Movie Review: ‘Shirley’ a powerful force in American politics
It’s sad that we have to reintroduce Shirley Chisholm after all these years, but with the political rise of Vice President Kamala Harris, why wouldn’t we?
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MIFF Movie Review: ‘The Ghost Trap’ an engaging, professional voyage that is easy on the eyes, J.P. Devine writes
‘The Ghost Trap’ plays Wednesday, July 17, and Saturday, July 20, at the Maine International Film Festival in Waterville.