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Film Review – Underwater (Second Take)
January is usually the month that film studios drop their supposed film duds. When a film has a January release date, the eyebrows go up. Underwater completed filming in 2017. It is possible that 20th Century Fox’s sale to Disney had something to do with the delay. Regardless…
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Film Review – The Aeronauts
The Aeronauts is an unexpected film. The majority of the film is set in London in 1862 and begins right before Amelia Rennes (Felicity Jones) takes off in a giant hot air balloon with burgeoning atmosphere scientist James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne). The film has no backstory, to…
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Interview – Trey Edward Shults – Waves
Sarah interviews writer/director Trey Edward Shults about his film Waves.
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Film Review – Waves
Writer and director Trey Edward Shults returns with another family-oriented drama after Krisha and It Comes At Night. Waves continues to be held in high regard by critics since arriving on the film festival circuit in early 2019. The trailer for the film gives me goosebumps and…
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Film Review – Honey Boy (Second Take)
Honey Boy is a semi-autobiographical film written by Shia LaBeouf and directed by Alma Har’el. While the characters’ names are different, it is easily identified as based on Shia LaBeouf’s childhood to becoming a star as a young man and the trouble that created.
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Film Review – Marriage Story
Director and screenwriter Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story is a film that revolves around the dissolution of a marriage, not the story of it. Divorce is, unfortunately, commonplace in our modern society, but that does not mean that it is a not sad occurrence, one that…
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Film Review – The Report
The Report is an important, based on real events, drama that tells the story of corruption and falsehoods at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the aftermath of the events of 9/11. Americans will be familiar with the photos and stories of mistreatment and torture of…
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Film Review – Ford v Ferrari
I am claiming ignorance to the majority of the characters and the true story told in Ford v Ferrari. I will admit that after viewing the trailers and seeing the film, my impression of the story from the trailers was utterly wrong. I am not…
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