Who doesn’t love a revenge movie? We all wait for that climactic moment when Charles Bronson finally does in the bad guys – as the anti-hero of the Death Wish franchise or as the excellent “man with the harmonica” in Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West. Or when John Wick just loses …
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Double Reviews: Passing + The Forty-Year-Old Version
Passing and The Forty-Year Old Version are two Netflix films I saw recently that share some similarities. Both are feature film debuts of two female filmmakers, Rebecca Hall and Radha Blank, respectively, and both deal with racial inequality, albeit set in two different periods and dealt with in very different ways. PASSING (2021) "Passing" follows …
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TV Review: The Little Drummer Girl (2018) mini series starring Florence Pugh
One of my TV viewing highlights in May I mentioned in my monthly recap was The Little Drummer Girl. I happened to watch quite a bit of TV that month (seven different series to be exact) and this spy thriller was definitely a standout. The fact that it's based on John le Carré's novel appealed …
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FlixChatter Review: LONG SHOT (2019)
Let me preface this review that I rarely go to R-rated comedies, particularly those with Seth Rogen in it. In fact, the last movie I saw Seth Rogen in a movie is probably 50/50 a decade ago with Joseph Gordon-Levitt which interestingly enough is also directed by Jonathan Levine. Yet there's something about the story …
FlixChatter Review: The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
Did you that if you type 'Tarzan' on IMDb, there'd be about 200 titles popped up since 1918 all the way to 2016. So yeah, you could say that Edgar Rice Burroughs' titular character has been adapted to death in various formats. But hey, Hollywood loves to recycle stuff over and over, and this one promises to …
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Double Indie Film Reviews: Disconnect + Unfinished Song
This past week, I had the chance to watch a couple of indie films through MSPIFF and press screening. It would've been three films but the blizzard last Thursday kept me from going to the MUD screening. Yes it's such a bummer but really, in the grand scheme of things, especially compared to what's going …
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