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Movie Review - The Climb (2020)
At the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin did a short film called The Climb (2018) about two friends on a bike ride. A year later, they turned that short film into a...
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Movie Review - Wolfwalkers
This is the fourth feature from Cartoon Saloon, an animation studio based in Ireland. It's the third feature from co-director and co-writer, Tomm Moore, an Irish animator who has now been nominated...
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Movie Review - An American Pickle
This film was released in the summer, two months before Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. However, I didn't get around to seeing this film until after that sequel starring Sacha Baron Cohen. I thought Borat...
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Movie Review - Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
This film feels like it's an adaptation of a Broadway musical. It's not an adaptation. It's an original musical by David E. Talbert. Talbert is a slightly older and way less successful version of Tyler...
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Movie Review - The Life Ahead
Sophia Loren was the first actor to win an Oscar for a foreign-language performance, which she did at the 34th Academy Awards for her role in the Italian film, Two Women (1961). It was a World War II...
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Movie Review - Run (2020)
Aneesh Chaganty has provided a second feature that feels analogous or parallel in some thematic fashion to his first feature. His debut was Searching (2018), which was about a parent doing what he can...
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Movie Review - Hillbilly Elegy
I haven't read the best-selling memoir by J. D. Vance, but this film, by director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind and Apollo 13), is an adaptation, which drew some controversy. I can't speak to what Vance...
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TV Review - The Crown: Season 4
Peter Morgan was first nominated for Best Writing, Original Screenplay at the 79th Academy Awards for his film The Queen (2006). That 2006 Oscar-winner focused on the experiences of Queen Elizabeth II...
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TV Review - Small Axe: Mangrove
Director and co-writer Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave and Hunger) has created an anthology series of films. He's put together five, individual films that are linked thematically, all of them relating...
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Movie Review - Getting It (2020)
Tom Heard makes his debut feature as writer, producer and director. Heard had worked as an actor, mainly a stage actor, based in Austin, Texas, for over 30 years. He finally takes the reins to bring us...
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Movie Review - Complete Strangers
This is the fifth feature from Pau Masó as director. It doesn't lean into the horror as much as his first feature did, but there are some scary moments. The tone of the film is one of dread and the...
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Movie Review - Josiah (Short Film)
Writer-director Kyle Laursen is having his short film play at several film festivals, including the Bogotá Short Film Festival, the Palm Springs International Shortfest, the Raindance Film Festival and...
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Movie Review - Jackplot (Short Film)
As the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown Hollywood earlier this year, forcing most to stay-at-home and lock-down, Dekkoo decided to provide an avenue for certain creatives. Dekkoo is a streaming service,...
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Movie Review - Happiest Season
Produced by Sony Pictures, one of the major movie studios, this film is being described as the first, Christmas film from a major movie studio to feature a same-sex couple in the lead. This precedes...
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Movie Review - Something Like Summer
Jay Bell is the author of a dozen books that are collectively known as the "Something Like" series. It's a group of YA novels that were successful enough to spawn a dozen of them. It's not too...
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Movie Review - Uncle Frank (2020)
This is the third feature from Alan Ball as screenwriter. It's his second as director. Ball won the Academy Award for Best Writing for his work on American Beauty (1999). After that, he started working...
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Movie Review - Superintelligence
If you look at the films for which Melissa McCarthy was nominated for an Oscar, that of Bridesmaids (2011) and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018), it's clear that she works better when she's given things...
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Movie Review - Mank
Herman J. Mankiewicz was nicknamed "Mank." He died of alcoholism in 1953. However, he was a very well-regarded, Hollywood screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Writing for Citizen Kane...
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Movie Review - Sound of Metal
If you have to name a deaf actor, most people of a certain age, probably only those over the age of 40, would be able to name Marlee Matlin, currently the only deaf actor to have won an Academy Award...
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Movie Review - Mosul (2020)
From November 2016 to July 2017, the Iraqi government with allied forces fought against ISIS in what's referred to as the Battle of Mosul. ISIS had taken control of Mosul, which is Iraq's second...
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