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Film Review – Official Secrets
Official Secrets takes place in the post-9/11 world, one that grows closer to the war on Iraq. What preceded the U.S. invasion of Iraq was a vote by the United Nations Security Council to vote in favor of the impending war. There was immense pressure on the…
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Film Review – It Chapter Two (Second Take)
The film adaptation of It by Stephen King began in 2017, and the first film broke records making it the highest-grossing R-rated horror film of all time. The collision of a terrifying clown, hysterical comedic elements, and excellent casting of young actors who gelled and acted…
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Film Review – The Lion King (2019)
Excited was an understatement when I saw the first poster and trailer for The Lion King (2019). The CGI looked amazing, and it brought back nostalgia from the original animated film in 1994 which released when I was in high school. With Disney seemingly given…
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Film Review – Midsommar
Writer/director Ari Aster’s first feature film, Hereditary, was a breakout hit and solidified him as a budding master of breathing new life to the horror genre. Given his success for Hereditary, the hopes are high for his second film, Midsommar. In blunt terms, Midsommar is…
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Film Review – The Last Black Man in San Francisco
The trailer for The Last Black Man in San Francisco is reason enough to seek out this film immediately. Seeing it in its entirety on a large screen in a dark theatre is breathtaking. That statement is not an exaggeration by any means.
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Film Review – Papi Chulo
Papi Chulo strikes me as an odd title for a film, but its meaning, “attractive man” or “ladies’ man” in Latin-American slang, makes sense in a couple of different ways by the end of it. Although the Irish money backing this film gave me pause…
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Film Review – The Hustle
The Hustle opens in a bar with a man wearing his button-up shirt that’s just a tad too open. He is waiting for his date, who he met through a dating app. The buxom blonde in the photos is too good to be true and…
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DIFF Film Review – Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile
Joe Berlinger is widely known as an acclaimed film documentary producer and director with credits like The Paradise Lost trilogy, Iconoclasts, and Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger. Berlinger recently focused his work on the serial killer Ted Bundy. He produced and…
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