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Mr. Nobody Against Putin Review – This Film Lends A Keen Eye Towards Russian Indoctrination
By Tyler Banark The United States-Russia rivalry has gone back many years and has taken various forms. Whether it’s the Cold War, in the Winter Olympics, or even in film (i.e., Rocky 4), the US and Russia have always found… Continue reading
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The Ugly Stepsister Has Awards Worthy Makeup & Hairstyling. Here Is An Interview I Did With The Head of Prosthetics & Makeup Designer
By Dan Skip Allen The Ugly Stepsister is an IFC/RLJE film based on the fantasy tale of Cinderella. It came out back in April of last year. It has garnered a lot of awards buzz for its makeup and hairstyling.… Continue reading
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Reedland Review- A Slow Paced But Beautiful Mystery Movie
By Dan Skip Allen Foreign films can be a bit of a mixed bag because of the lost in translation aspect of them for American audiences. “Reedland” is a Dutch film from first-time writer/director Sven Bresser. He was primarily a… Continue reading
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2000 Meters To Andriivka Review – This Film Defines What It Means To Fight For Every Inch
By Brian Susbielles One of the best films of the year is Warfare from Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza, the latter being a former US Marine who made the film entirely based on memory of a singular battle. Every sound,… Continue reading
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Avatar: Fire And Ash Review – A Phenomenal Three-quel To One Of The Best Film Franchise’s In History!
Avatar was a film that took the world by storm back in 2009, controlling the box office and showing film aficionados a new way to watch movies. The digital style that James Cameron created specifically for this movie would change… Continue reading
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Marty Supreme Review – Josh Safdie, Timothee Chalamet And Company Combine To Make An Intense Fast-Paced Semi-Biopic
The Safdie Brothers came on the scene of filmmaking with a storm. The Pleasure of Being Robbed, a short film, and Daddy Longlegs, a full-length feature, were their first two films, but it was their breakout hit “Good Time,” starring… Continue reading
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If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You Review – A Scenario That Is Very Real For Half The Population Of The World I’m Sure.
I’m not a woman. And I’m not a mother. I couldn’t imagine what women who are mothers go through giving birth or trying to raise a child. All I can say is that I have a mother who gave birth… Continue reading
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The Smashing Machine Review – A Sports Biopic That Would Be Pretty Mundane If It Weren’t For Johnson’s Phenomenal Performance As Kerr
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is an actor who has started his career out as a wrestler, as most people know by now. He had early roles in The Scorpion King, a spinoff of The Mummy Franchise, starring Brendan Fraser back… Continue reading
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One Battle After Another Review – PTA’s Wild Ride On A Lost Highway
By Brian Susbielles Paul Thomas Anderson, along with contemporaries Quentin Tarantino, Richard Linklater, and Kevin Smith, make up the VHS generation of directors emerging in the 1990s where they were self-taught on how to make movies and came out with… Continue reading
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Robert Redford: In Memoriam RIP (August 18th, 1936 – September 16th), One Of The Heroes Of My Childhood
I have a Mount Rushmore of actors that I grew up with as a child. Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, and Robert Redford are on that list. Jack Nicholson is next in line for me. They epitomized what it… Continue reading
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