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US, 1992, 105 min, Dir. Norman René
Mary-Louise Parker got booted from this role for Meg. Courtesy of Meridian Film Distribution CompanyIf you’ve ever wanted to see Alec Baldwin have awkward sexual chemistry with an elderly man, boy do I have a film for you.
Prelude to a Kiss is a ridiculous romantic fantasy film that stuffs some good old-fashioned body-switching, a quick wedding engagement, and a weird kiss into its hour and forty-eight minutes. Director-screenwriter team Norman René and Craig Lucas adapt the film from a Broadway play the duo also created the unstreamable films
Longtime Companion and
Reckless. It features Baldwin, who plays Peter, a square who falls in love with Rita (Meg Ryan), a pessimistic bartender he meets at a party. Rita is free-spirited and not quite ready for marriage but decides to go through with it anyway after Peter pops the question. But just after exchanging vows, Rita kisses a random older gentleman named Julius (Sydney Walker), who drools
What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend: May 14-16
Including reviews of The Underground Railroad, The Killing Of Two Lovers, In The Earth and more By Norman Wilner and Radheyan Simonpillai
May 14, 2021
OW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of May 14. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
The Killing Of Two Lovers
(Robert Machoian)
Machoian’s solo debut as a writer/director after more than a decade of collaborations and documentaries is a spare, aching and almost unbearably sad drama about thirtysomething David (Clayne Crawford), a husband and father in rural Utah mired in a domestic crisis. He’s separated from his wife Nikki (Sepideh Moafi) and their children. Nikki appears to be moving on. David has a gun. He badly wants to use it. But The Killing Of Two Lovers isn’t that simple. Machoian immediately complicates his story by showing us who David is when he’s not blinded by rage, and then complicates things fur
Region: A
MSRP: $39.95
A pre-code melodrama that provided equal opportunities for sinning for both sexes, Dorothy Arznerâs
Merrily We Go to Hell shows âmodernâ movie marriage in ways that wouldnât be allowed on the screen less than two years later and features charismatic performances from its two leading players that would be bellwethers of finer things to come from both of them. In its free-flowing drinking and multiple sexual escapades, the film may show its age, but itâs still an enjoyable entertainment with glimpses of some stars to be also in the mix.
Newspaper reporter and fledgling playwright Jerry Corbett (Fredric March) has definite problems with alcohol, drinking himself into a stupor almost nightly to forget the girl that got away, flighty Broadway actress Claire Hempstead (Adrianne Allen). One night at another drunken party he meets Chicago heiress Joan Prentice (Sylvia Sidney) who has not allowed her fatherâs (George Irving) millions t
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