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Lured<\/strong><\/em>: Lucille Ball stars as a dance-hall girl turned undercover detective! A serial killer is stalking the women of London via the personals ads\u2026 and one of the suspects is none other than the great Boris Karloff! This movie is pure pleasure. I\u2019d never seen Ball in anything before and she\u2019s a gem. She\u2019s brassy and funny, able to swirl a gown or filch a gun with equal aplomb. Karloff is of course oozily frightening. There\u2019s some of the era\u2019s requisite psychoanalysis (the killer must have read\u2026 Baudelaire!<\/em>), but it\u2019s OTT enough that it\u2019s enjoyable as camp rather than clotting up the cotton candy. Streaming on Kanopy, so you may be able to watch it on your library card.<\/p>\n

Breaking Surface<\/strong><\/em>: This Scandinavian film is a perfectly serviceable tale of two semi-estranged sisters whose scuba adventure takes a grim turn after a rockslide. It was tense. The sisters were easy to cheer for. That\u2019s about it, though\u2013I\u2019d hoped for the underwater sublime of Sea Fever<\/em><\/a> plus the complex interpersonal loyalties and cruelties of The Descent<\/em>, whereas this is pretty much a straightforward suspense flick. Possibly still streaming as part of the AFI European Union festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Smooth Talk<\/strong><\/em>: Laura Dern stars in this mid-\u201980s adaptation of Joyce Oates\u2019s \u201cWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been?\u201d Dern is believably self-absorbed, unguided; a lazy suburban summer haze hangs in the air. Treat Williams gives a fantastic physical performance as a man with his eye on a 14-year-old girl: he\u2019s like a sleazy marionette, all weird hanging angles, his eyes behind sunglasses. He\u2019s got to do too much monologuing toward the end, and I\u2019m not sure the film\u2019s coda really hits the note of \u201cthat strange, sad summer\u201d that it was heading for, but if anything in this description intrigues you it\u2019s worth a watch. Streaming at AFI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ma<\/strong><\/em>: A bunch of contemporary high-schoolers get a Gen X woman (Octavia Spencer) to buy them some booze. Before they know it they\u2019re hanging out all the time in her basement, calling her \u201cMa,\u201d partying down as she blasts \u201cFunkytown\u201d and does the Robot and hands out shots. But, and wait while I blow your mind, this middle-aged lady who hangs around drunk teenagers all the time is not completely stable! \u2026All the best moments from this movie were in the trailer, and yet I still found it an enjoyable popcorn horror\u2013with a haunting undertow due to Spencer\u2019s performance, alternately yearning, scheming, and dead-eyed.\u00a0 Ma<\/em> takes the standard \u201cprank gone wrong\/reunion revenge\u201d horror plotline and really thinks through what kind of person would still be that<\/em> stuck in teenage traumas twenty-plus years later, as well as what kind of person prefers to be surrounded solely by deciduous youth.<\/p>\n

You Kill Me<\/strong><\/em>: A comedy in which Ben Kingsley (man, this set of reviews is all about marquee names in unexpected roles) plays an alcoholic hit man sent by his crime family to sober up on the other side of the country. Kingsley\u2019s great, Tea Leoni is a charmer as his girlfriend, I assumed from her haircut and the repeated obnoxious \u201cI\u2019m not gaaaaaaaaaay\u201d humor that this was from the late \u201990s but in fact I\u2019ve just forgotten the late 2000s entirely I guess. (And nothing of value was lost.) Anyway I did laugh, but I wanted an actual moral arc. If this really were from the \u201990s I bet it would\u2019ve been one of those \u201ccats discover moral gravity<\/a>\u201d flicks, like (heart emoji, name tag emoji) Grosse Pointe Blank<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"