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Movie Review - Colette (2018)
Keira Knightley is a British actress who has made a career out of period dramas. Even the big blockbuster for which she's probably best known, Pirates of the Caribbean, she's still doing a historical...
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TV Review - Daddyhunt: The Serial - Season 3
In December 2014, Carl Sandler launched Daddyhunt, a mobile, gay dating-app for older men and their admirers. He wrote and produced a web series to promote his app called Daddyhunt: The Serial (2016)....
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Movie Review - The Old Man & the Gun
Forrest Tucker was a career criminal who has been in and out of prison since the age 15. He committed various crimes, including car theft, but he was mostly known for his bank robberies. He was...
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Movie Review - The Hate U Give
This film is adapted from a best-selling, young-adult novel by Angie Thomas. It's a book about the Black Lives Matter movement that focuses on a teenage, African-American girl who witnesses a police...
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Movie Review - The Sisters Brothers
Jacques Audiard is a celebrated, French filmmaker. He's won 9 César Awards, which are France's version of the Oscars. He's won the Palme d'Or. His film A Prophet (2009) was nominated for Best Foreign...
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Movie Review - Ideal Home
I know that the marketing or advertising of a film normally has little to do with the actual film itself, so trailers or posters shouldn't factor into the analysis of a film, but I have to wonder what...
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Movie Review - Whitney (2018)
Kevin Macdonald is an Oscar-winning, documentary filmmaker who took home gold for his film One Day in September (1999). His movies have tackled a diversity of subjects and topics. Six years ago, he did...
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Movie Review - Affairs of State (2018)
Director Eric Bross could have been a director for Scandal or House of Cards. This movie is in line with those government intrigue and political thrillers. Bross' film has the polish and sheen of those...
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Movie Review - Leave No Trace
Writer-director Debra Granik (Winter's Bone and Down to the Bone) again adapts a novel. This time it's My Abandonment by Peter Rock. Rock's novel won the same Alex Award that Jeannette Walls' book The...
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Movie Review - Bohemian Rhapsody
Over the summer, a documentary called Whitney about Whitney Houston came out to theaters. My review of Whitney started as this one will start with a recognition that there are so many films about...
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Movie Review - Free Solo
Three years ago, the documentary Meru made the shortlist for the 88th Academy Awards. It didn't get nominated, but it was a very extraordinary film. It was about three mountain climbers who tried to...
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Movie Review - Private Life (2018)
This is only the third feature film directed by Tamara Jenkins in 20 years. I haven't seen her first feature, but I did see her second flick, The Savages (2007), which I thought was very well done. I...
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Interview - The Daddies of 'Daddyhunt: The Serial' Talk About Season 3
On October 24, the YouTube web series, Daddyhunt: The Serial premiered its Season 3. This season is four parts, which updates with a new episode every week. The series follows a couple that is...
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Movie Review - Beautiful Boy (2018)
Timothée Chalamet really burst onto the scene last year in Lady Bird and he even scored an Academy Award nomination for his role in Call Me By Your Name. However, I wanted to talk about a Chalamet film...
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Movie Review - Nobody's Fool (2018)
This is the 19th feature that Tyler Perry has written and directed. With the exception of two films earlier in his career, most of his films remain below 40-percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Of all the films...
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Movie Review - Night Comes On
Not only is this a film about a young African-American woman told from the perspective of a young African-American woman. It is one of those perfect, little films. It's an independent production that...
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Movie Review - Shirkers
Sandi Tan has made an autobiographical sketch of her life focusing on the loss of the first film she ever made. She wrote a screenplay, got her friends to help produce it and had her teacher direct it....
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Movie Review - Sex Weather
Writer-director Jon Garcia (The Falls) makes his protagonist a filmmaker who's made a movie that has itself been reviewed by critics. At one point, the woman with whom he's having an affair reads one...
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Movie Review - Overlord (2018)
It was first reported that this movie was in production last year, but I didn't hear about it until earlier this year after the Super Bowl. It was after the Super Bowl that Netflix released The...
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Movie Review - The Girl in the Spider's Web
Stieg Larsson died in 2004 but he left behind a series of books, which have been dubbed the Millennium series. It's about an abused, asocial, computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander who teams up with a...
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