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Film Review – Underwater
It’s rare for a film to start at the beginning of the second act. Normally, we are given some introductory scenes where we learn a little bit about our characters and their relationships. This is meant as a set up so that we understand what…
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Film Review – Just Mercy
The inherent inequity of the American Judicial System has been the subject of many pointed and moving stories. Cinema has a long history of portraying the wrongly incarcerated on screen. Also, showing the spotty record our courts have with applying punishment to prisoners as influenced…
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Film Review – Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Céline Sciamma‘s Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a meticulously done film of scenes of time passing that put together a thoughtful and intriguing idea about romance and camaraderie in extraordinary situations. In the 18th century Marianne (Noémie Merlant), a female painter, is sent…
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Film Review – The Grudge (2020)
Ahh, 2020. A brand new year, which means a brand new start to check out fresh, original movies. Every January brings some excitement and anticipation for what will come, in hopes that we will be graced with cinema that makes us look at the world…
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Film Review – Uncut Gems
Taking a breather from both his multi-million dollar Netflix deal and basketball shorts, Adam Sandler again reminds us how good he can be outside of his Happy Madison orbit as Howard Ratner, a charmingly idiotic gambler and star of the Safdie Brothers’ Good Time follow-up,…
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Film Review – Little Women (2019)
This is how you do it. Film adaptations of classic pieces of literature are so common we all take them for granted. And in the case of some works like this one, it feels like there have been so many versions created at this point…
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Film Review – 1917
Long, unbroken camera takes – where the frame follows on screen action without any edits or cuts – can immerse us into a film when done properly. It allows us to experience events as they happen in real time, going through the physical and emotional…
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Film Review – A Hidden Life
What does it mean to be a hero? What does it mean to do the right thing? We often remember great acts of valor, of sweeping gestures that can shift the tides of civilizations. These people are forever planted into history in textbooks, statues, and…
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