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Film Review – Peppermint
Peppermint (2018) wastes too much time focusing on undeveloped characters and not enough time on what we came see: Jennifer Garner kicking ass and taking names. It’s billed as a revenge/action picture, and in certain cases it is. But writer Chad St. John and director…
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Film Review – The Wife
I’m going to meander a bit before I get to my review of Björn Runge’s new film The Wife. The source material for this film is a novel by Meg Wolitzer, who is one of my favorite contemporary writers. I don’t usually care for literary…
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Film Review – Searching
Searching (2018) is the latest entry into a growing category of films that takes place entirely on screens. A story is told as though we are looking at a computer monitor, cell phone, or TV screen. Information is given to us through text messages, FaceTime,…
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Film Review – Kin
Not every Science Fiction movie has to be a monumentally Earth shaking affair with all of humanity on the line. And not every movie has to be a tent pole to a multipart franchise that sprouts 14 sequels, 2 spinoffs, 3 prequels, and a TV…
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Film Review – Operation Finale
Adolf Eichmann was one of Hitler’s top Nazi officers. He was a chief architect of the “Final Solution,” better known as the Holocaust, resulting in the deaths of six million people. Eichmann oversaw the operations of the concentration camps and helped organize the death trains…
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Film Review – Support the Girls
Let’s cut to the chase. Go see Support the Girls. See it in the theater if you can, but rent or buy when available. It’s directed by Andrew Bujalski, who I had never heard of before now (That’s on me, not him.). Throw some money…
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Film Review – Blaze (Second Take)
Blaze begins with a quote by Willie Nelson, solidifying Blaze Foley’s place in music history. Many people, or possibly most, like myself, have never heard of Blaze Foley. A fan of Blaze’s music, Ethan Hawke directed the film and co-wrote the screenplay with Blaze’s wife,…
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Film Review – Blaze
“This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender” says the etching around the body of the guitar owned by late singer-songwriter Blaze Foley, an enigmatic, sometimes infuriating, often obstinate figure in the Texas music world of the 1980s, when country was becoming cool and…
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