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Movie Review - Blockers
The key flaw with the film is that the ending is obvious and predictable from the start of the premise. That premise is that three parents of three girls who are best friends discover the three girls...
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Movie Review - A Quiet Place
It's a monster movie and a really good thrill ride, but like with any monster movie, there is some suspension of disbelief. This movie has a bit more suspension of disbelief needed than what it should....
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Movie Review - Chappaquiddick
A year and a half ago, Pablo Larraín gave us Jackie (2016), the film about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, and how his wife tried to control the narrative and...
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Movie Review - Roxanne Roxanne
Biographical films about musicians or singers have always been a thing in Hollywood. It's only been over the past decade that we've seen biopics about hip hop artists or rappers. We had huge Hollywood...
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Movie Review - Oh Lucy!
Atsuko Hirayanagi directed a 21-minute, short film called Oh Lucy!, which premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. It became a hit on the film festival circuit from that point through 2015. This...
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VOD Review - Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Oscar Nominee)
Nominated at the 90th Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature, this movie premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. It hit theaters last year before airing on PBS as part of the...
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VOD Review - Behind the Curtain: Todrick Hall
Todrick Hall is a singer-songwriter, a dancer-choreographer and an actor. He's what some would call a triple-threat, as well as a YouTube, social-media celebrity. He's also black and gay. He rose to...
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DVD Review - 2001: A Space Odyssey (50th Anniversary)
This April marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Stanley Kubrick's science-fiction masterpiece. It is considered one of the most influential pieces of cinema in the genre and a complete classic....
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Movie Review - Rampage (2018)
This is a loose adaptation of the 1980's arcade game of the same name. It's a loose adaptation in that the premise of the game is to control huge monsters and intentionally destroy cities, as well as...
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Movie Review - Braven
Saban Films has a slate of low-budget action flicks and this one is another to add to the pile. The majority of which are throwbacks to the kind of action flicks that were hits in theaters back in the...
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Movie Review - Come Sunday
Oscar-nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave and Doctor Strange) stars as Carlton Pearson, the real-life minister who was the Sunday preacher at Higher Dimensions, one of the largest churches in...
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Movie Review - Amateur (2018)
It was reported in the news that the FBI has been investigating corruption within college basketball in regard to recruiting violations. In April of this year, federal prosecutors filed an indictment...
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Movie Review - Irreplaceable You
Here's the reason why this movie fails. A woman wrote the script. A woman directed it. A woman stars in it. A woman of color stars in it. Yet, the movie is all about a dorky white man. It's a cancer...
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Movie Review - Traffik
The third and final season of John Ridley's American Crime did a better job of exploring the issue of human trafficking and modern-day slavery than this piece of sheer schlock. This movie, written and...
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Movie Review - First Match
This movie gets points for exploring something that is rarely explored, an African-American female athlete. The Lifetime channel did give us The Simone Biles Story, but that was a biopic of a national...
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TV Review - The Crossing (2018)
Almost 15 years ago, the USA network scored three Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Miniseries for The 4400 (2004). It ran for four seasons because it was so successful and so well done. It had...
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TV Review - The Chi
Lena Waithe made history at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards in September of last year when she won for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series becoming the first black woman to do so. It was an episode...
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TV Review - Alex, Inc.
This series is quasi-biographical of Alex Blumberg who founded a podcast company in 2014 that focused on other start-ups or emerging new businesses. Written by Matt Tarses (The Goldbergs and Scrubs),...
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Movie Review - Avengers: Infinity War
The 19th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is also the 3rd movie with the word "Avengers" in the title. Yes, having knowledge of the previous 18 films would certainly help going into it. The...
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Movie Review - The Strange Ones
The feature debut of filmmakers, Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein, is an adaptation of their 2011 short film of the same name. The short film focused on a man in his mid-to-late twenties on...
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