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Robert Kojder

Movie Review – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020)

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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, 2020. Directed by George C. Wolfe. Starring Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo, Michael Potts, Jonny Coyne, Taylour Paige, Jeremy Shamos, and Dusan Brown. SYNOPSIS: Chicago, 1927. A recording session. Tensions rise between Ma Rainey, her ambitious horn player and the white management determined to control the uncontrollable “Mother […]

Film Twitter is Sometimes a Betrayal of Cinema

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Robert Kojder on Film Twitter and the betrayal of cinema… There are two things spawning this messy article that’s most likely going to come across as a rant against Film Twitter. The first of which didn’t compel me enough to start writing because it’s actually something that happens all the time but we will start […]

Exclusive Interview – Sophia Lillis talks Uncle Frank, empowerment, role models, portraying literary characters, finding her calling, and more

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Robert Kojder chats with Sophia Lillis… Just in time for Thanksgiving, Uncle Frank puts a spin on the crazy uncle stereotype, where the eponymous relative is basically the only educated, thoughtful, artful, progressive, and empowering one of the backwoods South Carolina bunch. More to the point, Frank (a wise but perpetually troubled Paul Bettany) is the […]

Movie Review – Uncle Frank (2020)

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Uncle Frank, 2020. Written and Directed by Alan Ball. Starring Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Steve Zahn, Judy Greer, Stephen Root, Peter Macdissi, Margo Martindale, Caity Brewer, Lois Smith, and Cole Doman. SYNOPSIS: In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family […]

Wonder Woman 1984 delay likely as Illinois theaters shut down again

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Let’s face it, the possibility of Wonder Woman 1984 actually releasing on Christmas Day has always been up in the air. Most of us are awaiting another inevitable delay rather than actually allowing anticipation to kick in. Although, if the hotly anticipated blockbuster was going to arrive as a Christmas present, it was going to […]

Movie Review – Sound of Metal (2020)

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Sound of Metal, 2020. Directed by Darius Marder. Starring Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci, Lauren Ridloff, Mathieu Amalric, Tom Kemp, Chris Perfetti, Hillary Baack, and Chelsea Lee. SYNOPSIS: A heavy-metal drummer’s life is thrown into freefall when he begins to lose his hearing. As much as Sound of Metal is about a drummer poorly […]

Movie Review – The Last Vermeer (2020)

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The Last Vermeer, 2020. Direct by Dan Friedkin. Starring Claes Bang, Guy Pearce, Roland Møller, Vicky Krieps, Matt Beauman-Jones, Paul Bentall, August Diehl, Richard Dillane, Olivia Grant, Marie Bach Hansen, Andrew Havill, Tom Mulheron, Simon Paisley Day, Oliver Ryan, and Joakim Skarli. SYNOPSIS: An artist is suspected of selling a valuable painting to the Nazis, […]

Movie Review – Hillbilly Elegy (2020)

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Hillbilly Elegy, 2020. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett, Freida Pinto, Bo Hopkins, Owen Asztalos, Ethan Levy, Jesse C. Boyd, Stephen Kunken, Dylan Gage, David Atkinson, Keong Sim, Chase Anderson, David Jensen, Jason Davis, and Sarah Hudson. SYNOPSIS: A Yale law student drawn back to his hometown grapples […]

Movie Review – Come Away (2020)

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Come Away, 2020. Directed by Brenda Chapman. Starring Angelina Jolie, David Oyelowo, Jordan A. Nash, Keira Chansa, Reece Yates, Michael Caine, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Derek Jacobi, Anna Chancellor, Clarke Peters, and David Gyasi.   SYNOPSIS: When their eldest brother dies, Peter and Alice seek to save their parents from despair until they are forced to choose […]

Movie Review – Mank (2020)

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Mank, 2020. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Dance, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam Troughton, Ferdinand Kingsley, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke, Joseph Cross, Jamie McShane, Toby Leonard Moore, Monika Gossmann, Leven Rambin, Craig Robert Young, Randy Davison, Jack Romano, Craig Welzbacher, Adam Shapiro, Paul Fox, Jessie Cohen, Amie Farrell, […]