High-Def Digest: The Bonus ViewKevin Kline Archives - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tag/kevin-kline/ A High-Def Digest Blog Wed, 13 May 2020 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (2017) Review: Pretty but Superfluous https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/beauty-and-the-beast-2017-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/beauty-and-the-beast-2017-movie-review/#comments Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:00:18 +0000 Philip Brown http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=83795 While Jon Favreau’s high-tech take on ‘The Jungle Book’ may have reinvented enough elements of the Disney animated classic to justify its existence, the live-action reboot of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ feels like little more than a restaging of the 1991 cartoon triumph. It’s nice enough and pretty enough, but why does this need to...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/last-vegas-review/feed/ 0 Movies Not to See: ‘The Extra Man’ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/movies-extra-man/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/movies-extra-man/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 17:00:27 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=769 This weekend, I caught an advanced screening of a new alleged comedy called ‘The Extra Man’, as part of the Talk Cinema series (which I generally recommend, if there’s a branch in your area). The film stars Kevin Kline as a “Walker,” an older gentleman who mooches off wealthy women in exchange for escorting them...

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