Review: Greyhound
This 2020 American war film is directed by Aaron Schneider. It stars Tom Hanks, Stephen Graham, Elisabeth Shue, Rob Morgan,
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Review – Waves (2020)
An ambitious, sensory explosion of pathos. Life is a tide-to-tide crash of love and loss, tragedy and grace. Adversity both
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Review: Knives Out
This 2019 American murder mystery is written, produced, and directed by Rian Johnson. It stars an ensemble cast including Daniel
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Review: Last Christmas
This 2019 romantic comedy, loosely based on the 1984 Wham! song of the same name, is directed by Paul Feig.
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Review: Marriage Story
Guest review by Connor Lightbody (@Calbody) Noah Baumbach’s delicate and emotionally fraught film, Marriage Story, is a timeless foray into
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Review: Downton Abbey (2019)
This 2019 British historical period drama, directed by Michael Engler, serves as a continuation of the television series of the
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Review – Stuber (2019)
With a title like Stuber, and a concept that revolves around a ride-sharing service that encourages riders to rate their
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Review – Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
A Kaiju-stuffed calamity. The path towards Godzilla: King of the Monsters has been, for lack of a better word, pornographic. The
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Review – Rocketman (2019)
Explosion of fantasy, theatrics and reality. “You gotta kill the person you were born to be to become the person
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Review – Wine Country (2019)
Amy Poehler is the latest actor-turned-director to make the transition from in front of the camera to behind it, serving
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Review – High Life (2019)
Bewildering, penetrative sci-fi. Endless blackness, an infinite stretch of both everything and nothing, mesmerizing but (literally) suffocating in its incomprehensible
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The Lowedown on “Hellboy” (R – Theatrical – US)
This started out top be a sequel and I cheered… but then they decided on a reboot and I jeered.
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The Lowedown on “Shazam” (PG-13 – Theatrical – US)
Genre: FantasySub-genre: ComicLength: 2hr 12min Aside from the 70’s TV series, I have never been a fan of Shazam…and the
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Review: Avengers: Endgame
With such a fever sweeping the globe for the highly anticipated “endgame” of the now 22-film strong Marvel Cinematic Universe,
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The Lowedown on “Alita: Battle Angel” (PG-13 – Theatrical – US)
Based on a manga (not anime, fellow space travelers), I knew this was going to be a CGI fest of
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Review – What Men Want (2019)
Loosely based upon the 2000 film, What Women Want, Adam Shankman’s What Men Want continues the recent brand of gender-flipped
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Review – Us (2019)
Bonkers, dense and straight up scary. “Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to
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Review: Captain Marvel
This 2019 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Carol Danvers is the twenty-first film in the Marvel
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Review – Fighting With My Family (2019)
In what amounts to the biggest surprise of the year so far, Stephen Merchant’s Fighting With my Family is quite the delight! Even
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Review: Cold Pursuit
This 2019 American black comedy thriller is directed by Hans Petter Moland as a remake of his own native 2014
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