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Movie Review – Saint Omer (2022)

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Saint Omer, 2022. Directed by Alice Diop. Starring Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanga, Atillahan Karagedik, Aurélia Petit, Ege Guner, Mustili, Fatih Berk Şahin, Salih Sigirci, Valérie Dréville, Xavier Maly, Robert Cantarella, Salimata Kamate, and Thomas De Pourquery. SYNOPSIS: Follows Rama, a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court to use […]

Movie Review – Renfield (2023)

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Renfield, 2023. Directed by Chris McKay. Starring Nicholas Hoult, Nicolas Cage, Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz, Adrian Martinez, Jenna Kanell, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Bess Rous, James Moses Black, Caroline Williams, Camille Chen, Joshua Mikel, Derek Russo, Rhonda Johnson Dents, Christopher Matthew Cook, Michael P. Sullivan, Rosha Washington, T.C. Matherne, Marcus Lewis, Marvin Ross, Gabriel ‘G-Rod’ Rodriguez, Stephen Louis […]

Movie Review – Kids vs. Aliens (2023)

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Kids vs. Aliens, 2023. Directed by Jason Eisener. Starring Dominic Mariche, Phoebe Rex, Calem MacDonald, Asher Grayson, Ben Tector, Emma Vickers, Isaiah Fortune, Jonathan Torrens, Caleb Allred, and Jessica Marie Brown. SYNOPSIS: An all-time rager of a teen house party turns to terror when aliens attack, forcing two warring siblings to band together to survive […]

Movie Review – Mafia Mamma (2023)

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Mafia Mamma, 2023. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke. Starring Toni Collette, Monica Bellucci, Rob Huebel, Alfonso Perugini, Yonv Joseph, Tommy Rodger, Eduardo Scarpetta, Alessandro Bressanello, Tim Daish, Jay Natelle, Sophia Nomvete, Giulio Corso, Dora Romano, Francesco Mastroianni, Giuseppe Zeno, Mitch Salm, and Claire Palazzo. SYNOPSIS: Mafia Mamma follows an insecure American woman (Toni Collette) who unexpectedly […]

Movie Review – Sweetwater (2023)

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Sweetwater, 2023. Written and Directed by Martin Guigui. Starring Everett Osborne, Cary Elwes, Jeremy Piven, Eric Roberts, Jim Caviezel, Richard Dreyfuss, Kevin Pollak, Emmaline, Mike Starr, Jim Meskimen, Jason Sklar, Ashani Roberts, Robert Ri’chard, Paul Hipp, Eric Etebari, Gary Clark Jr., Ernest Harden Jr., Wayne Federman, Billy Malone, Dahlia Waingort, Tim Kavanagh, Ca’Ron Jaden Coleman, […]

Movie Review – Linoleum (2023)

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Linoleum, 2023. Written and Directed by Colin West. Starring Jim Gaffigan, Rhea Seehorn, Katelyn Nacon, Gabriel Rush, Amy Hargreaves, West Duchovny, Michael Ian Black, Tony Shalhoub, Elisabeth Henry-Macari, Roger Hendricks, Simon Elliot, Frances Flynn, Jay Walker, Levi Chapin, Mike Gaffigan, Patrick Gaffigan, Desmond Joseph Conrad-Fern, Willoughby Pyle, and Twinkle Burke. SYNOPSIS: When the host of […]

Movie Review – One True Loves (2023)

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One True Loves, 2023. Directed by Andy Fickman. Starring Phillipa Soo, Simu Liu, Luke Bracey, Michaela Conlin, Oceana Matsumoto, Gary Hudson, Oona Yaffe, Beth Broderick, Lauren Tom, Phinehas Yoon, Cooper van Grootel, Michael O’Keefe, and Tom Everett Scott. SYNOPSIS: A woman is unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and […]

Movie Review – On a Wing and a Prayer (2023)

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On a Wing and a Prayer, 2023. Directed by Sean McNamara. Starring Dennis Quaid, Heather Graham, Jesse Metcalfe, Abbey Rhyne, Jessi Case, Brett Rice, Rocky Myers, Selena Anduze, E. Roger Mitchell, Joe Knezevich, Brandon Quinn, Roger Anthony, Raina Grey, Trayce Malachi, Anna Enger Ritch, Wilbur Fitzgerald, Holly Morris, Rachael Markarian, and James Healy Jr. SYNOPSIS: […]

Movie Review – One Day as a Lion (2023)

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One Day as a Lion, 2023. Directed by John Swab. Starring Scott Caan, Frank Grillo, Virginia Madsen, J.K. Simmons, Taryn Manning, Marianne Rendón, Georgie Carroll, Billy Blair, Bruce Davis, and Dash Melrose. SYNOPSIS: Jackie Powers will stop at nothing to prevent his son from following him into a life of crime. With his mob employer […]

Movie Review – Devil’s Peak (2023)

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Devil’s Peak, 2023. Directed by Ben Young. Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Hopper Penn, Brian d’Arcy James, Jackie Earle Haley, Robin Wright, Emma Booth, Katelyn Nacon, Harrison Gilbertson, David Kallaway, and Stephen Matthew Smith. SYNOPSIS: Set in North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains, eighteen-year-old Jacob McNeely is torn between appeasing his meth-dealing kingpin father and leaving the mountains […]