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Emancipation Review-A True Survival Tale In More Ways Than One
Over the last decade or so there have been several television shows and films that have dealt with slavery and its effect on the men and women who lived this lifestyle. Harriet, The Underground Railroad, and 12 Years a Slave… Continue reading
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Empire of Light Review
Sam Mendez has been on fire lately directing two of the last three James Bond films, Skyfall and Specter, and nearly winning a second-best picture Academy Award for 1917 his WWI epic. Which looked like it was filmed as one… Continue reading
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover Review
Lady Chatterley’s Lover is based on the novel by D H Lawrence. His last novel. It’s a Victorian period piece set in the early 1900s. It already had another iteration back in 2015 on television on BBC1 starring Richard Madden,… Continue reading
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Violent Night Review-A Perfect Mix of Genres in this Holiday Movie Season
David Harbour has had some ups and downs in his career of late. He was part of the assembled cast of the hit series Stranger Things on Netflix. That launched his career into superstardom and off of that, he got… Continue reading
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Willow Series review
Willow was a fantasy-adventure movie that was made by Lucas Films and directed by Ron Howard, not George Lucas or Stephen Spielberg. Which in this era of Lucas Films was a surprise. Because the Star Wars films and Indiana Jones… Continue reading
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The Inspection Review
As diversity in film and equality in Hollywood has started to spread through the film industry, more and more movies have started telling LGBT stories. Some are comedies, and others are very serious fare, such as The Inspection. In this film,… Continue reading
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His Dark Material Season 3 Review
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman has been an entertaining series thus far on HBO Max. The series has established a great group of characters and a legitimate world-saving storyline. Or in the case of the series worlds saving. The… Continue reading
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Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio Review
Pinocchio has been a stalwart of the Disney library for many years When You Wish Upon a Star is a song that Disney is synonymous with. Ever since the original all those years ago there have been a few other… Continue reading
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The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special Review
Marvel/Disney has done a nice job introducing characters and getting the audience to fall in love with them and the iteration portrayed by the actors in the films. In the case of The Guardians of the Galaxy James Gunn has… Continue reading
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Devotion Review
There haven’t been a lot of films about the Korean War. Devotion is one of the few I can remember. Mash and Heartbreak Ridge are a couple that I can recall. The Korean War is known as the forgotten war… Continue reading