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TV Review - Mingle All the Way
Hallmark Channel produces tons of movies. The cable network gives audiences at least one new movie a week. Sometimes, it's five, and it's been pumping out these movies for the better part of 20 years....
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TV Review - Homecoming (2018)
Ever since the podcast Serial by Sarah Koenig in 2014 was so successful and was such a phenomenon, podcasts and people who make them have entered the mainstream. Serial was so successful and the rise...
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TV Review - Elseworlds
In 2012, Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg created the TV series Arrow, which was an adaptation of the DC Comics character named Green Arrow. Green Arrow was created in the 1940's as...
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Movie Review - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
This Marvel Comics character is one of the most popular, super-hero characters ever created. Several animated TV series have been made for him. Sam Raimi adapted the character into a blockbuster film...
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Movie Review - Roma (2018)
This is the official submission from Mexico to the 91st Academy Awards. It's been critically acclaimed since it premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival where it won the Golden Lion....
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Movie Review - The Mule (2018)
Clint Eastwood has directed 37 feature films. The majority of them has had Eastwood himself as the star or main actor. However, Eastwood hadn't starred in one of his own films since Gran Torino (2008)....
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Movie Review - Mary Poppins Returns
The original Mary Poppins (1964) was a massive hit for Disney and still remains one of the company's most successful properties, even in the 54 years since. It was nominated for 13 Academy Awards,...
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Movie Review - Aquarians
Movie titles can be references to a character, a place, a theme or a quote in the dialogue. They can be random or they can provide some insight into what the audience is about to see. Writer-director...
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Movie Review - Aquaman (2018)
It seems as if the DCEU is going to make some of the same mistakes as the MCU did in its phase two. The DCEU is the DC Comics Extended Universe, or the term for the super-hero movies produced by Zack...
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Movie Review - Bumblebee
The film is essentially a prequel to Transformers (2007). It also acts as a remake of that same film. Its basic premise is that a teenager discovers a robot that can turn itself into a car. The...
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Movie Review - Welcome to Marwen
Mark Hogancamp is an artist. He used to be in the Navy. He was a showroom designer and carpenter. In the film, it also says that he was an illustrator for comics and elsewhere. In April 2000, he was...
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Movie Review - Second Act (2018)
There is a classic or perhaps cliché battle going on here between street smarts versus book smarts. The protagonist here has street smarts but she contends with a corporate world or a corporate culture...
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Movie Review - The Favourite
So many films have been made about British royalty. Earlier this year, there were TV movies about Prince Harry and his marriage to Meghan Markle. This December, a film was released about Mary, Queen of...
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Movie Review - Vice (2018)
Adam McKay used to be a head writer for Saturday Night Live. After that, he became known for directing a lot of films with Will Ferrell, including Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) and Step...
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Movie Review - If Beale Street Could Talk
This year has been a great year for black cinema, meaning cinema about African-American people, starring African-American people or directed by African-American people. Leading the charge is Black...
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Movie Review - Ben is Back
Writer-director Peter Hedges is a name that most people might not recognize. I certainly didn't prior to this film. I've been aware of him but didn't know it. Peter Hedges was nominated for an Academy...
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Movie Review - Border (Gräns)
This film was the official submission from Sweden to the 91st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. It didn't make the December shortlist. It won "Un Certain Regard" at the 71st Cannes Film...
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Movie Review - Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku)
This film is the official submission from Japan to the 91st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. It won the Palme d'Or at the 71st Cannes Film Festival where it premiered. It's critically...
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Movie Review - On the Basis of Sex
There have been several films about famous Supreme Court cases, but it's rare that we get a film that is about a specific Supreme Court justice, a specific real-life justice. The Magnificent Yankee...
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Movie Review - 1985 (2018)
Yen Tan is a Malaysian filmmaker who is now an American citizen based in Dallas, Texas. He's openly gay. His first feature-length film was Happy Birthday (2002), a narrative about five queer people in...
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