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Movie Review - Axis (2017) (Portland Film Festival)
For the past five years, we've gotten one film every year that is about a man driving in his car where the movie spends the entire time in that car, never letting the man get out. It started with...
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Movie Review - Thor: Ragnarok
This is the third film with Chris Hemsworth as Thor in the leading role. It's the 17th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The last movie with Thor as the lead was back in 2013. There have been...
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Movie Review - The Florida Project
This movie focuses on a young, single mother named Halley and her little daughter Moonee who are extremely poor. They're virtually homeless. What separates them from the streets is a cheap motel called...
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Movie Review - The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Yorgos Lanthimos is a filmmaker whose sensibilities seem to be very cold and clinical. This could be said of a lot of filmmakers, particularly European filmmakers and those who draw inspiration from...
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Movie Review - BPM (Beats Per Minute)
This film premiered at the 70th Cannes Film Festival in May. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or. It lost, but it did win the Queer Palm, the FIPRESCI Prize and the Grand Prize of the Jury. In...
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DVD Review - Body Electric (Corpo Eléctrico)
The title most likely is a reference to the poem "I Sing the Body Electric," written by Walt Whitman from his book, Leaves of Grass.Whitman was known as the father of free verse, a style of poetry not...
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Movie Review - The Square (2017)
The official submission from Sweden to the 90th Academy Awards is also the Palme d'Or winner at the 70th Cannes Film Festival. It was written and directed by Ruben Östlund whose previous film Force...
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Movie Review - God's Own Country
Written and directed by Francis Lee, this movie is nominated for 10 British Independent Film Awards, including Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best British Independent Film. I perhaps...
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Movie Review - Novitiate
Margaret Betts has a feature debut, which garnered her a Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Director at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. She demonstrates here the beginning of what will hopefully be a...
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DVD Review - Your Name (Kimi no Na wa)
This film was submitted last year to the 89th Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature. Some thought it would get nominated. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association named it Best Animation in 2016. It...
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TV Review - Stranger Things: Season 2
Because Netflix doesn't reveal data about who is watching its shows and how many are watching, it's difficult to know which shows are successful and which aren't. Nielsen ratings have been...
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Movie Review - Justice League (2017)
This film continues the story-line from last year's Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. It was directed by Zack Snyder. In May of this year, Snyder announced he was stepping away from the project due...
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Movie Review - Mudbound
The adaptation of the 2008 novel by Hillary Jordan retains passages from the book as beautiful but somber narration. Directed and co-written by Dee Rees, visually the whole thing is beautiful but...
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DVD Review - Hidden Kisses (Baisers Cachés)
Directed by Didier Bivel and written by Jérôme Larcher, this movie was originally broadcast on French television, FR2, on May 17th, which is International Day Against Homophobia, or what's known as...
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TV Review - Young Sheldon
Sheldon Lee Cooper is the breakout character of CBS'The Big Bang Theory. He's portrayed in that series by Jim Parsons who has won the Emmy Award four times for this character who is a theoretical...
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TV Review - S.W.A.T. (2017)
Yet another cop series, but this one started with some promise. Yes, it's a remake of the 1975 series of the same name by Robert Hamner. Adapted by Aaron Rahsaan Thomas (CSI: NY) and Shawn Ryan (The...
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Movie Review - Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Denzel Washington has played a lawyer before in the Oscar-winning Philadelphia (1993). Washington wasn't nominated himself for that role. His co-star, Tom Hanks, was. Hanks ultimately won. The music...
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Movie Review - Coco
Lee Unkrich directed this feature with Adrian Molina. Unkrich won the Oscar for Toy Story 3 (2010) and this film is very much in that same vein of childhood adventure leading to lessons of family and...
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Movie Review - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Those on the far, political right and those who watch FOX News seem to believe there is a "war on police" and people have linked that with the Black Lives Matter Movement or BLM. There is this belief...
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Movie Review - Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig is an actress and filmmaker from Sacramento, California. She's the daughter of Christine Gerwig, an OB-GYN nurse, and Gordon Gerwig, a loan officer. She has a brother. She attended an...
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