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J.P. Devine movie review: ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It’ pays tribute to a legend
The film, which tells the story of singer Tina Turner’s rise to stardom and how she broke free from her abusive husband, begins showing Monday at the Maine International Film Festival.
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‘Ticket to Paradise’ actors made film for the money
Before you buy your “Ticket to Paradise,” did you know that Bali, the “ideal” vacation spot that was the location for George Clooney and Julia Roberts’s movie “Ticket to Paradise,” is the home of 500 different varieties of spiders, some of which have eight eyes and 15-centimeter legs? You didn’t? Did you know that today, […]
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On the Edge: Where’s your hat?
As the Fourth of July approaches, J.P. Devine is thinking about the “holiday wardrobes” of yesteryear.
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‘New York, I Love You’ chock full of stars, magic — writes JP Devine
Here’s a bright, sparkling, and really magical comedy-drama anthology film that has been hiding since 2008, it was received with pans and raves the way Modigliani and Van Gogh once were. Give it a look. It consists of 11 short films, each one different, each directed by one of 11 directors and chock full of […]
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On the Edge: Prince of Darkness vs. The Donald
J.P. Devine imagine a mysterious figure sweeping into a courtroom in an ankle-length black cape and fedora, holding a carved walking stick.
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‘Delivery Man’ stars always-in-trouble Vince Vaughn
It all started in 2011 when director Ken Scott put his French Canadian film “Starbuck” on the market, and soon we’re told, it was the most successful film in Canada. Still, nobody outside of Canada knew much about it. Now we’ve got it. Scott’s remake of his film with Vince Vaughn as the local miscreant […]
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On the Edge: Thank Heaven for my little girls
I’ll share a secret with you. When you lose your father at age 9 you spend the rest of your life — I mean every day, month and year of it — searching for someone to take his place. And I’m here this year, a nonagenarian father with two girls lucky enough to have one, […]
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‘Blue Jean’ script has problems, writes J.P. Devine
Life is softer for LGBT people in the UK now than it was in the ’80s in “Blue Jean,” when Margaret Thatcher initiated “Section 28.” Now, as the clouds thin, we find ourselves in a small, dreary school in Newcastle upon Tyne, where our young Jean, a gay physical education teacher, is a basketball coach. […]
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On the Edge: There’s always something
J.P. Devine mulls an expression that was ingrained in his life by his mother, who used it like a wash cloth or toothbrush.