TCFF 2023 Documentary Reviews: ‘Still Working 9 to 5’ and ‘Greener Pastures’

In the interest of time, I'm going to be posting more than one review at a time during the film fest. Some might be shorter than others, depending on how much time I have on a given day. Still Working 9 To 5 Let me preface this review with the fact that I had not …

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Trio Female-led Reviews: Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody + 80 For Brady + Faraway

The benefit of being in super long flights (I'm talking about 20+ hours of flight time) is to catch up on movies. I watched two out these three movies on the plane, while I saw Faraway on Netflix the weekend I came back from Bali while still recuperating from a massive jet lag. I thought …

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FlixChatter Review: LUCK (2022)

Luck has the distinction of being Apple TV's first animated feature, which is part of an exclusive deal with Skydance Animation. The movie aims for Pixar quality, especially since it's got former Disney/Pixar's chief creative officer John Lasseter as a producer. The story centers on Sam Greenfield, an 18-year-old orphaned girl who seems to always …

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Day 4 Review – TCFF 2015 Gala Screening: Youth

This is the first film from Paolo Sorrentino that I saw, as I missed his film The Great Beauty which won an Oscar foreign language winner in 2014. YOUTH is about about two longtime friends vacationing in the Swiss Alps, they're in their 80s so you could say youth is behind them. Michael Caine plays Fred, an acclaimed composer …

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