Searchlight Pictures
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A Complete Unknown Review- A Transcendent Performance From Chalamet Lifts This Musical Biopic Into Great Status
I’ve said many times now that I’m a big fan of musical biopics in the past. It’s ad nauseum by now. I have to say once again that I’ve seen another fantastic musical biopic. A Complete Unknown is the latest… Continue reading
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Miami Film Festival GEMS (2024) Nightbitch Review- A Film Dealing With Maternal Instincts At Their Most Basic Nature
Mireille Heller is a writer/director who has made some very good films in recent years including A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood about Fred Rogers starring Tom Hanks, Diary of a Teenage Girl about an awkward girl coming of age… Continue reading
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Miami Film Festival GEMS (2024) A Real Pain Review- A Road Trip Film Through Poland Turns Into A Story About An Annoying Guy I Didn’t Like Very Much
Jesse Eisenberg is a prolific actor who’s done some great work in The Social Network, Now You See Me, Zombieland, and now his latest A Real Pain which he also wrote/directed. He has found an interest in directing lately with… Continue reading
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Kinds of Kindness Review- Self Indulgence By Lanthimos Isn’t Exactly A Good Thing Especially Considering His Past Films
Anthology films are a mixed bag. Sometimes they are stories of groups of people in relationships or looking for love as in New York I Love You. Sometimes they are films that have different horrific stories in them like VhS… Continue reading
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Suncoast Review- A Good Coming Of Age Film With A Realistic Backdrop
The Sundance Film Festival is a good place for burgeoning filmmakers to get their first taste of fame. If they have a film that resonates with audiences like last year’s Past Lives or Coda from a few years ago it… Continue reading
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Poor Things Review- A Wildly Wacky and Weird Coming of Age Sci Fi Fantasy
Yorgos Lanthimos is one of those directors who isn’t for everybody. His films The Lobster, The Favorite, Dogtooth, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer are a bit of an eclectic bunch of films. He tends to put a weird… Continue reading
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All of Us Strangers Review (Miami GEMS 2023)- A Conundrum Of A Film If I’ve Ever Seen One
There are films that when you watch them leave you scratching your head. Or thinking about them days afterward. All of Us Strangers is one of those kinds of films. It’s an existential journey through love and kindness with a… Continue reading
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Theater Camp Review- An Attempt at Making Theater Camp Funny and Relatable Fails to Elicit Laughs or Enjoyment
I’m not too proud or ashamed to say I wasn’t a theater camp kid when I was young. My parents never sent me or my siblings to any camp for that matter. This just wasn’t what we did. I did… 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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