Category: -Movie Review
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Movie Review – Trolls Band Together
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For such tiny Trolls, these little cuties have a huge hit on their hands. I was not really looking forward to doing the Peetimes on Trolls Band Together. Dreading it is a little closer to how I felt honestly. I’m happy to report that I was wrong. From the very beginning to the end of…
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Movie Review – The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
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There were a few things to like, but a whole bunch of “what the #$%@ are they doing” in this movie. The Good The acting was generally good. Headlining the effort is Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow. I thought he had a solid performance as the young Snow. I was especially impressed with Viola Davis…
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Is the Aviator a Forgotten Scorsese and DiCaprio Gem?
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Leonardo DiCaprio is easily one of the best actors of all time, but his career may have panned out differently if Martin Scorsese hadn’t decided to work with him so frequently. It’s arguably thanks to the legendary director that DiCaprio became the incredible star he is today, and that all began in the early 2000s…
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Movie Review – After (2019)
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“After,” a romantic drama from Jenny Gage, was one of many intriguing and diverse movies that the year 2019 brought us. Based on the popular young adult novel of the same name by Anna Todd, the film follows the tumultuous love story of Tessa Young and Hardin Scott. While it may have flown under the…
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Movie Review – The Holdovers
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The Holdovers could be this generation’s Dead Poets Society. I don’t think The Holdovers is as inspirational as DPS, but they serve the same general purpose: an eccentric teacher (the wizard) guiding a young man/hero, who is missing a father figure, through the transition from adolescence into adulthood. There are numerous movies that illustrate this mythic…
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Movie Review – The Marvels
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I didn’t have high expectations for this movie. In fact, I can’t remember an MCU movie I was less enthusiastic to see. Unfortunately, it didn’t live up to my low expectations. TL;DR The overall direction of the MCU is a mess. It appears that events in this movie were force-fed to the writers, leaving them…
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Movie Review – Inspector Sun
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Inspector Sun looked like it had a lot of promise. I loved the vibe that the trailers put out there but I was slightly disappointed with the overall movie. When I review children’s movies I try to keep them in mind. Do I think kids will like it? Kind of, I’m not sure what age…
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Movie Review – Priscilla
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A24 did it again. They left me scratching my head and asking, “What did I just see?” I have a long-running love/hate relationship with their movies. I’ve learned that I need to keep an open mind and watch them spin their tale to the very end. I will admit that I gave them reviews that…
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Movie Review – What Happens Later
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It was charming to see two of my favorite actors from my early adulthood back on the big screen. But, David Duchovny and Meg Ryan are old now so that means I’m… That can’t be right. 🙂 If it wasn’t apparent from the movie preview, this is like a two-person play. The only other person…
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Documentary Review – After Death
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Writing a review on a documentary is way different than writing one for a movie. I think the way I’ll sum it up is if you are interested in what happens after you die, or more to the point, a near-death experience, check out this production. It delves deeply into the unknown. There are a…
