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Movie Review - The Trial of the Chicago 7
Aaron Sorkin's second film as director is another legal drama. His directorial debut, Molly's Game (2017), was more or less a biography of a young woman, but it also involved a type of courtroom...
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Movie Review - Rebecca (2020)
This year marks the 80th anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940), the only film from the acclaimed, British director to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. That 1940 classic was nominated...
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Movie Review - Charm City Kings
Several documentaries have been the basis for narrative films, either independent films or polished, Hollywood productions. This film by Angel Manuel Soto would be an example of the former. Recently,...
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Movie Review - Bad Hair (2020)
Writer-director Justin Simien is known for Dear White People (2014), a film and TV series that tackled race on college campuses and race relations. A lot of it though was about dynamics within the...
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Movie Review - The Witches (2020)
For the most part, Disney is the supreme leader in remakes of children's stories, mainly its own. It's done well financially for the company with recent hits like Maleficent (2014), Beauty and the...
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Movie Review - The Fight (2020)
Four years ago, in the run-up to the 2016 Presidential election, a political documentary was released that was powerful and topical, commenting on the times and events as they were happening or very...
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Movie Review - Totally Under Control
Alex Gibney has become one of the top ten documentary directors in the country. He's been nominated for the Academy Award twice in the category of Best Documentary Feature. He won for his film Taxi to...
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Movie Review - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Sacha Baron Cohen returns as the titular character, Borat Sagdiyev. He reprises his role from Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan or just Borat (2006)....
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Movie Review - On the Rocks (2020)
This is the third time that Oscar-nominee and comedic actor Bill Murray has worked with director and Oscar-winner Sofia Coppola. The first time that Murray and Coppola worked together is how Murray...
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Movie Review - Over the Moon (2020)
Glen Keane is a long-time animator who started working in animation back in the 1970's. He's mainly worked for Disney. He's had a hand in many of Disney's hits from The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty...
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Movie Review - Time (2020)
Garrett Bradley premiered this film at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival where it won the U.S. Documentary Directing Award. Bradley became the first African-American woman to win in this category. Given...
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Movie Review - His House
Remi Weekes is a Black British filmmaker making his debut feature. His film focuses on a black couple who are African refugees who have come to the United Kingdom as asylum seekers. As such, he invokes...
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TV Review - Fargo: Season 4
Noah Hawley has gotten perhaps a bit too ambitious in this season. Strangely, after watching the first, three episodes, I still had no clue what the show was doing or where it was going. In the...
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TV Review - The Vow (2020)
Keith Raniere from New York was convicted of several federal crimes, including sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit forced labor. He was the founder of NXIVM, a multi-level marketing company that...
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TV Review - Swamp Thing (2020)
This series was created for DC Universe, which is a video-on-demand streaming service. It aired in 2019 on that service. Unfortunately, the service canceled the series shortly after the series began in...
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TV Review - Deaf U
The title is a reference to Gallaudet University, a school in Washington, D.C., that is specifically designed for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing. The series has Nyle DiMarco, a deaf...
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TV Review - Next (2020)
Last year, ABC put on the air a great, science-fiction series called Emergence (2019). It was about a woman who worked for the police who was investigating some crimes related to a tech company and...
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TV Review - Someone Has To Die (Alguien Tiene Que Morir)
Five years ago, Netflix started producing Spanish-language, original programming. It started with Club de Cuervos (2015). That series was successful, so more and more Spanish-language shows and films...
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TV Review - Dark Desire (Oscuro Deseo)
This year, I became more aware of Netflix's Spanish-language original programming or just the films and TV shows from Spanish-speaking countries that it has adopted and embraced, making stars out of...
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Movie Review - Let Him Go
This is an adaptation of Larry Watson's 2013 novel. Writer-director Thomas Bezucha (The Family Stone and Big Eden) does an excellent job of translating the essential story to the screen. Bezucha also...
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