Focus Features
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Drive Away Dolls Review- A Funny Roadtrip Film That Doesn’t Live Up To Its Own Hype
Ethan Coen is primarily known as one-half of the Coen Brothers. He and his brother Joel have directed more than their fair share of films over the last few decades, such as Raising Arizona, Fargo, Oh Brother Where Art Thou,… Continue reading
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Lisa, Frankenstein Review- It Would Have Been A Good Premise In The Hands of Tim Burton & Johnny Depp Thirty Years Ago, Not Now Though
Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, and Sweeney Todd are all Tim Burton movies starring Johnny Depp. Lisa Frankenstein is Zelda Williams, the daughter of Robin Williams, and Diablo Cody (Juno) trying to do a coming-of-age story the way these two… Continue reading
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The Holdovers Review- A Teacher Student Mentorship That Reminded Me Of My Own Life As A Young Man
Alexander Payne has had a pretty long and successful career as a filmmaker. Directing such films as Election, The Descendants, and About Schmidt. He has worked with a star-studded array of actors and actresses in his time, such as Reese… Continue reading
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My Top 10 Films of 2023… So Far! Half Way Through the Year
By Dan Skip Allen Honorable Mentions: (In No Particular Order) Chevalier, Creed 3, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Elemental, Fast X, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Mario Brothers Movie The, Path of the Panther, Tetris, Transformers: Rise… Continue reading
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Asteroid City Review- A Film With A Singular Vision That Is Perfectly In Sync With Wes Anderson’s Sensibilities
Wes Anderson is what would be considered an auteur director. A director who has a singular vision of what he or she is doing from film to film with no studio interference. That is why he’s such a great director… Continue reading
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Inside Review- A Film that Has a Story that Defies Odds
There have been a lot of movies that have odd or weird premises. Some of them are horror films, others are not. Inside isn’t one of those but it’s also not exactly a straightforward film either. It’s a movie that… Continue reading
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Armageddon Time Review
James Gray isn’t the first or the last, in fact, Steven Spielberg has a story of his upbringing coming out in a couple of weeks called The Fablemans, a director who has decided to tell his semi-autobiographical story of his… Continue reading
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Tar Review
Musical biopics are one of my favorite genres of film. They are able to show a side of musicians that most people don’t know about. Sometimes the not-so-good things in their lives come out in these films. Tar is a… Continue reading
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The Silent Twins Review
There has been a wide range of films about crime or criminals. Most are straightforward types of stories such as gangster films or films where the characters are just going down the wrong path. Or calculated criminals like bank robbers… Continue reading
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