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Blu-ray Review – Scary Movie (1991)

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Scary Movie, 1991. Directed by Daniel Erickson. Starring John Hawkes, Suzanne Aldrich, Butch Patrick, Ev Lunning, and Zane Rockenbaugh. SYNOPSIS: A nervous young man believes that an escaped killer is stalking him at a Halloween carnival. This Scary Movie is not the horror movie spoof from the 2000s but a low budget regional horror movie […]

Movie Review – Paradise City (2022)

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Paradise City, 2022. Directed by Chuck Russell. Starring John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Blake Jenner, Praya Lundberg, Stephen Dorff, Corey Large, Branscombe Richmond, Lorenzo Antonucci, Kate Katzman, Carrie Bernans, Mary Ann Perreira, and Amber Abara. SYNOPSIS: Ryan Swan must carve his way through the Hawaiian crime world to wreak vengeance on the kingpin who murdered his […]

Movie Review – Somebody I Used to Know (2023)

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Somebody I Used to Know, 2023. Directed by Dave Franco. Starring Alison Brie, Jay Ellis, Kiersey Clemons, Danny Pudi, Haley Joel Osment, Amy Sedaris, Julie Hagerty, Olga Merediz, Zoë Chao, Evan Jonigkeit, Ayden Mayeri, Fabi Reyna, Marian Li, Ted Rooney, Rochelle Maria Muzquiz, Loudon McCleery, Phillip Ray Guevara, Hannah Barefoot, Sam Richardson, Leigh Guyer, Rachel […]

Movie Review – At Midnight (2023)

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At Midnight, 2023. Directed by Jonah Feingold. Starring Diego Boneta, Monica Barbaro, Casey Thomas Brown, Catherine Cohen, Fernando Carsa, Whitney Cummings, Maya Zapata, Anders Holm, Sara Sampaio, Kara Del Toro, Dazelle Yvette, and Victor Oliveira. SYNOPSIS: Ambitious hotel manager Alejandro and movie star Sophie meet when fate strikes when the shoot brings them all to […]

Movie Review – Your Place or Mine (2023)

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Your Place or Mine, 2023. Written and Directed by Aline Brosh McKenna. Starring Reese Witherspoon, Ashton Kutcher, Jesse Williams, Zoë Chao, Steve Zahn, Tig Notaro, Wesley Kimmel, Griffin Matthews, Rachel Bloom, Shiri Appleby, Vella Lovell, and Mystic Inscho. SYNOPSIS: Two long-distance best friends change each other’s lives when she decides to pursue a lifelong dream, […]

Movie Review – Women Talking (2022)

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Women Talking, 2022. Written and Directed by Sarah Polley. Starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod, Liv McNeil, Kate Hallett, August Winter, Frances McDormand, Kira Guloien, Shayla Brown, Emily Mitchell, Eli Ham Lochlan, Ray Miller, Vivien Endicott Douglas, Nathaniel McParland, and Marcus Craig. SYNOPSIS: A group of […]

Movie Review – Sharper (2023)

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Sharper, 2023. Directed by Benjamin Caron. Starring Julianne Moore, Sebastian Stan, Justice Smith, Briana Middleton, John Lithgow, Darren Goldstein, Phillip Johnson Richardson, Kerry Flanagan, David Pittu, Quincy Dunn-Baker, and Lucy Taylor. SYNOPSIS: A small, wealthy family in New York City gets progressively torn apart by secrets, lies, and the theft that orchestrates all of it. It’s […]

Movie Review – Seriously Red (2023)

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Seriously Red, 2023. Directed by Gracie Otto. Starring Krew Boylan, Daniel Webber, Celeste Barber, Thomas Campbell, Jean Kittson, Bobby Cannavale, Rose Byrne, Todd Lasance, Wayne Blair, Sarah Su, Tony Barry, Sophia Forrest, and Nell Campbell. SYNOPSIS: Raylene ‘Red’ Delaney trades her nine-to-five career in real estate for a life under the spotlight as a Dolly […]

Video Review – Fair Play is Netflix’s Next Best Picture

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EJ Moreno with a video review of Sundance darling Fair Play… In the era of films we are getting now, it’s hard to balance themes with the story. Fair Play walks the fine line in what critic EJ Moreno calls the best screenplay of Sundance 2023 and a future awards contender for Netflix. Director Chloe […]