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Film Review – Alone
As we continue to live our lives in varying degrees of isolation, it is only natural that films filmed prior to March 2020 may have the upper hand in preying on our enhanced fear and hyper-self-awareness. After the debacle of Unhinged, director John Hyams brings us…
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Film Review – Unhinged
It appears that there is a mad rush to be one of the first new films to be available to watch when movie theatres open in the US. Solstice Studios took advantage of the press around the reopenings, and its film, Unhinged, is the first film…
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Film Review – Most Wanted
Most Wanted is a “based on a true story,” revolving around the drug trade in Canada in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and the attempts by the federal police to run stings to stop the flow of drugs into the country. On the heels of…
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Film Review – Relic
Like so many films, Relic released to streaming on Friday, rather than a theatrical release. This is my first film review since the virus pandemic started. Streaming a film that is meant to be on the big screen in a dark room, especially with the horror genre,…
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Film Review – Birds of Prey
Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn is a spin-off of 2016’s Suicide Squad. I obsessed over anything about Suicide Squad until I saw it. It was a disappointment, to put it mildly. One of the best characters in the film and one…
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Film Review – The Rhythm Section
Before The Rhythm Section’s first trailer, it was the film that had so many paparazzi shots of Blake Lively in wigs and dirtied up while filming it. Just from the random photos, it became apparent that this might be Blake Lively’s attempt at pulling a…
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Film Review – The Gentlemen
Guy Ritchie is a prolific screenwriter and director. He has a style that is unmistakably original in some of his films. Surprisingly (at least for me), the recent live-action Aladdin (2019) is also one of his films. Ritchie is not afraid to take chances and divert…
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Film Review – Bad Boys for Life
Following a long break from Bad Boys II in 2003, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back as Detective Mike Lowery and Detective Marcus Burnett of the Miami Police Department. Both characters are striving to be Bad Boys for Life. Well, Mike strives more for this moniker…
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