Posts Tagged ‘Brie Larson’
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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Episode 1 – Captain Marvel and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Welcome to the first episode of the MacGuffin Podcast relaunch. The new hosts Cassidy and Keith spend this episode reviewing Captain Marvel, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, and at the end of the podcast they discuss the 2017 documentary Abducted in Plain…
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Film Review – Captain Marvel
After ten years and twenty films, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has finally provided us with a female-lead entry. Captain Marvel (2019) contains much of what we’ve come to expect from a superhero origin – both positively and negatively. There are some peaks and valleys all…
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Film Review – Free Fire
There are a lot of reasons why people choose a life of crime. Some do it out of an act of desperation – as though they feel like they have no way out of where life has placed them. Others might do it as an…
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Film Review – Kong: Skull Island
“And remember the story of Icarus, whose father gave him wings made of wax and warned him not to fly too close to the sun.” Samuel L. Jackson’s Lt. Colonel Packard tells his men this as helicopters carrying soldiers and explorers fly into a storm…
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Top 15 Films of 2015 – Allen’s Picks
I know what people say: “Lists of anything are dumb. How can you take something as subjective as movies and rank them in order?” Well, that’s kind of the beauty of it: no one list is definitive. If anything, putting out one’s favorite films only reveals…
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Top Female Performances of 2015
Written by Brooke Corso and Sarah Ksiazek To cover a year in which the state of women in Hollywood – both in front of and behind the camera – is increasingly scrutinized, questioned, and restructured, we chose roles across genres and even selected one actress…
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Film Review – The Danish Girl
Soon after Eddie Redmayne picked up a Best Actor Oscar for The Theory of Everything, an image of Redmayne dressed up as a woman was shared online. It was for his next project, The Danish Girl, and it pretty much became known then that this…
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