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Movie Review - The Midnight Sky
George Clooney is one of only three people to be nominated in six, different categories at the Academy Awards. The other two is Walt Disney and Alfonso Cuarón. Interestingly, Cuarón achieved this...
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Movie Review - Wonder Woman 1984
Before the coronavirus pandemic, this film was originally supposed to be released in the summer of 2020, which would have occurred a month before the Tokyo Olympics and probably would have still been...
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Movie Review - Soul
Pete Docter is one of the filmmakers who works for Pixar Animation that has gotten a lot of acclaim. He's been nominated eight times for the Academy Award. He won twice in the category of Best Animated...
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Movie Review - Promising Young Woman
Films like Bombshell (2019) and The Assistant (2020) are the recent prima facie stories about the Me Too movement in this country. These films have been meant to explore and expose the institutional...
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Movie Review - News of the World
Oscar-winner Tom Hanks has been acting in film for nearly 40 years. However, he's never done a Western before to my knowledge. He became a star and rose to prominence as the Western genre was on the...
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Movie Review - Sylvie's Love
Eugene Ashe's film felt like the kind of film that hasn't been in abundance or at least in the mainstream since the late 1990's and early 2000's. It's a simple, straight-forward, romantic drama,...
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TV Review - A Teacher (2020)
Writer-director Hannah Fidell created A Teacher (2013), an independent film about a male high school student who has a sexual affair with his female English teacher. This series is an adaptation of...
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TV Review - Grand Army
Katie Cappiello is a playwright, director and feminist. She created a play seven years ago called Slut (2013). It follows a teenage girl who is raped by three of her friends, delving in a "brutal...
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Best Music of 2020
The nominations for the 63rd Grammy Awards were announced. Beyoncé has the most nominations with nine. A chunk of her nominations came from her being featured on the song "Savage" by Megan Thee...
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Best Moments on TV of 2020
At the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, Netflix had the most nominations of any network. However, HBO went home with the most wins in one night. The reason was the success of Succession, which won...
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Best Movies of 2020
There are some people who are declaring that the movie industry, at least as a theatrical experience, is dead. The coronavirus pandemic caused the total shutdown of theaters or cinemas back in the late...
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Movie Review - One Night in Miami (2020)
On February 25, 1964, Muhammad Ali fought Sonny Liston in a boxing match for the World Heavyweight Championship in Miami Beach, Florida. On June 7, 2013, Kemp Powers premiered a play in Los Angeles...
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Movie Review - Pieces of a Woman
This is an adaptation of a stage play by Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó and his partner, Kata Wéber. Mundruczó has had several films premiere at the Cannes Film Festival over the decades. His film...
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Movie Review - City Hall (2020)
Frederick Wiseman is the Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker who rose to prominence in the late 1960's. He was put on the map with his Titicut Follies (1967), a searing look at a mental institution in...
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Movie Review - The Little Things (2021)
Nominated for a Golden Globe and a SAG Award, there's a possibility that this film could also get an Oscar nomination. Because of which, this film deserves a conversation, if briefly. The nominations...
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Movie Review - Malcolm & Marie
There have been so many films about Hollywood and filmmaking. Some of them can seem so navel gazing and self-indulgent. There have been so many films about filmmaking that there doesn't seem to be...
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Movie Review - The White Tiger (2021)
Aravind Adiga is an author from India whose 2008 debut novel won the Man Booker Prize, a literary award for works published in the United Kingdom. Several films have been made based on Man Booker Prize...
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TV Review - Cobra Kai: Season 3
This season is about former friends becoming rivals and former rivals becoming friends. It's still in a lot of ways a referendum on the kind of patriarchal, uber-masculine, violent culture that gave...
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TV Review - Batwoman: Season 2
When I first reviewed this series a year and a half ago, I wasn't that impressed. It was a great step in providing audiences with a lesbian superhero, or at least another lesbian superhero. This series...
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TV Review - To All the Boys: Always and Forever
This is the third and potentially final film to the hit, Netflix series that began with To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018). The series centers on a young Asian-American girl and her romantic...
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