So here we are... forty two years after the first ever Star Wars film opened in 1977, the final chapter of the Skywalker saga is released. There was a huge anticipation for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, naturally, given its place in the franchise history as the final conclusion. In preparation for this, my …
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Written & Directed by: Jim Jarmusch In The Dead Don't Die, the quiet small town of Centerville is thrown into chaos as the dead begin rising from their graves and feasting on the citizens' flesh. The few police in town (Bill Murray's Chief Cliff Robertson, Adam Driver's Officer Ronnie Peterson, and Chloe Sevigny's Officer Mindy …
I have to admit that my life has been so hectic lately I haven't really had time to anticipate any films this holiday season like I normally do. But when the press screening invite came out for The Last Jedi, I actually got more excited despite only having seen only one trailer. Well, I'm glad …
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It's been ages since Steven Soderbergh, though I gotta admit I wasn't too impressed with his last film Side Effects. But still, glad he didn't end up retiring after all, and he returns to do a heist action comedy, as Soderbergh himself described, Logan Lucky is an anti-glam version of an Ocean movie (per EW) …
Written/Directed By: Jim Jarmusch Cast: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani Runtime: 1 hr 58 minutes Jim Jarmusch films can be challenging and Paterson (2016) is no exception. Audiences who are accustomed to plot or character-driven stories will find themselves grappling instead with a mood in search of a reason. Without a genre label to help, we must work through …
To close out his trilogy of religious theme film that includes The Last Temptation of Christ and Kundun, Martin Scorsese has spent over 20 years on trying to bring his latest picture to the big screen. Based on the novel by Shusaku Endo and technically a remake of a Japanese film that was directed by …
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I'm a big fan of science fiction films, and the ones that are more *grounded* in our reality, meaning it's not all sleek and drowned in special effects are usually the most compelling. Midnight Special is certainly one of those films, which in essence is a father/son story. Right from its opening scene, this film …
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