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Movie Review – Mending the Line (2023)

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Mending the Line, 2023. Directed by Joshua Caldwell. Starring Brian Cox, Sinqua Walls, Perry Mattfeld, Patricia Heaton, Wes Studi, Irene Bedard, Julian Works, Chris Galust, Tristan Thompson, Pressly Coker, Michaela Sasner, Melanie Rae Wendt, Gabriel Clark, Jenna Ciralli, Scott McCauley, Phaedra Nielson, and Josef Patterson. SYNOPSIS: A Marine wounded in Afghanistan is sent to a […]

Movie Review – Giving Birth to a Butterfly (2021)

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Giving Birth to a Butterfly, 2021. Directed by Theodore Schaefer. Starring Annie Parisse, Gus Birney, Rachel Resheff, Constance Shulman, Owen Campbell, Paul Sparks. SYNOPSIS: A woman who has had her identity stolen goes on a road trip with her son’s pregnant girlfriend to find those responsible.  Theodore Schaefer’s surreal debut places a flickering light on […]

Movie Review – Showing Up (2023)

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Showing Up, 2023. Directed by Kelly Reichardt. Starring Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, Maryann Plunkett, John Magaro, Andre Benjamin, James Le Gros, Judd Hirsch, Todd-o-Phonic Todd, Lauren, Lakis, Denzel Rodriguez, Jean-Luc Boucherot, Ted Rooney, Heather Lawless, Ben Coonley, Chase Hawkins, Izabel Mar, Bahni Turpin, Holly Osborne, Ethan Benarroch, Hanna Caldwell, Matt Malloy, Amanda Plummer, Kevin-Michael Moore, […]

Movie Review – Heathers: The Musical (2023)

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Heathers: The Musical, 2023. Directed by Andy Fickman. Starring Ailsa Davidson, Simon Gordon, Maddison Firth, Vivian Panka, Teleri Hughes, Vicki Lee Taylor, Mhairi Angus, Liam Doyle, Rory Phelan, Oliver Brooks, Andy Brady, Benjamin Karran, Chris Parkinson, Jermaine Woods, Eleanor Morrison Halliday, Mary-Jean Caldwell, Hannah Lowther, and May Tether. SYNOPSIS: Based on the 1988 cult-classic movie, […]

Movie Review – Brooklyn 45 (2023)

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Brooklyn 45, 2023. Written and Directed by Ted Geoghegan. Starring Anne Ramsay, Ezra Buzzington, Jeremy Holm, Larry Fessenden, Ron E. Rains, and Kristina Klebe. SYNOPSIS: Five military veterans, best friends since childhood, gather together to support their troubled host, and the metaphoric ghosts of their past become all-too-literal. It is unquestionably terrifying that xenophobic or […]

Movie Review – Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant (2023)

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Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, 2023. Directed by Guy Ritchie. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim, Antony Starr, Alexander Ludwig, Emily Beecham, Jason Wong, Bobby Schofield, Sean Sagar, Reza Diako, Abbas Fasaei, Swen Temmel, Rhys Yates, Ash Goldeh, Christian Ochoa Lavernia, Marcel Zadé, Hadi Khanjanpour, Gary Anthony Stennette, Fariba Sheikhan, Damon Zolfaghari, Javier Ramos, Kawa Mawlayee, Altamasch […]

Movie Review – Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (2023)

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, 2023. Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson. Featuring the voice talents of Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Jake Johnson, Oscar Isaac, Issa Rae, Daniel Kaluuya, Karan Soni, Jason Schwartzman, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Velez, Greta Lee, Rachel Dratch, Jorma Taccone, Shea Whigham, Peter Sohn, Andy Samberg, […]

Movie Review – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, 2023. Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson. Featuring the voice talents of Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Jake Johnson, Oscar Isaac, Issa Rae, Daniel Kaluuya, Karan Soni, Jason Schwartzman, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Velez, Greta Lee, Rachel Dratch, Jorma Taccone, Shea Whigham, Peter Sohn, Andy Samberg, […]

Movie Review – Shooting Stars (2023)

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Shooting Stars, 2023. Directed by Chris Johnson. Starring Mookie Cook, Caleb McLaughlin, Algee Smith, Dermot Mulroney, Wood Harris, Natalie Paul, Katlyn Nichol, Avery Serell Wills Jr., Scoot Henderson, Khalil Everage, Bryant Carroll, Diane Howard, Jon Solomon, Mark McNeil II, Rohn Thomas, Jim Cirner, and LeBron James. SYNOPSIS: The inspiring origin story of a basketball superhero, […]

Movie Review – Inland (2022)

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Inland, 2022. Directed by Fridjhof Ryder Starring Rory Alexander, Mark Rylance, Sean Dingwall, Kathryn Hunter, Eleanor Holliday, Alexander Lincoln, Nell Williams, and Sebastian Orozco SYNOPSIS: A young man attempts to track down his missing mother.  A young man’s quest to find his missing mother is the premise for Fridtjof Ryder’s poetic debut. But if that […]