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A Man Called Otto Review- Hanks Channels an Old Man Who Gets a Nice Redemption Story In the End
A Man Called Ove was a Swedish film from 2015. It was nominated for best foreign language film in 2017. It was a pretty popular film with film critics and others that saw it. With that must come the inevitable… Continue reading
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The Son Review-Zeller analyzes a different kind of illness this time out
Florian Zeller wrote and directed The Father a couple of years in which Anthony Hopkins won his second Academy Award for playing an elderly gentleman who suffers from dementia. This was controversial because he beat out Chadwick Boseman who would… Continue reading
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Kaleidoscope Review- Giancarlo Esposito has another hit show on his hands
Netflix has invested millions of dollars in films and television shows in the last decade or so. A lot of their films and television shows are just mindless entertainment but some of them have a genuine interest to the public… Continue reading
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The Pale Blue Eye Review- A Film as Dark & Atmospheric as its Story Is
Scott Cooper is an eclectic director his films have varied from horror, Antlers, period piece, Hostiles, Biopics, Blass Mass, and music-based films, Crazy Heart. He once again delves into period piece territory with his latest film The Pale Blue Eye.… Continue reading
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I Wanna Dance With Somebody Review- A Paint By Numbers Musical Biopic
In the last few years or so there has been an influx of musical biopics from Bohemian Rhapsody to Rocketman to this year where there are two big musical biopics in Elvis and I Wanna Dance With Somebody about the… Continue reading
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Babylon Review- A Mishmash of Scenes that don’t Add Up to Anything Substantial
Damien Chazelle came on the scene like a champion. His first three major motion pictures have garnered a lot of buzz from critics and fans alike. La La Land almost won the Best Picture Academy Award after a mess-up between… Continue reading
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Avatar: The Way of Water Review- An Achievment in Filmmaking Only James Cameron Could Do
Avatar was a cultural phenomenon when it came out back in 2009. It was a huge hit financially having made 2.9 billion dollars. Breaking James Cameron’s record that he set with Titanic. Cameron has been working on Avatar ever since… Continue reading
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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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