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Movie Review – The Virtuoso (2021)

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The Virtuoso, 2021.Directed by Nick Stagliano. Starring Anson Mount, Abbie Cornish, Anthony Hopkins, Eddie Marsan, Richard Brake, Diora Baird, Chris Perfetti, and David Morse.A lonesome stranger, secure, nerves of steel, must track down and kill a rogue Hitman to satisfy an outstanding debt. But the only information he’s been given is a time and location […]

Movie Review – Wild Mountain Thyme (2020)

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Wild Mountain Thyme, 2020.Written and Directed by John Patrick Shanley. Starring Jamie Dornan, Emily Blunt, Jon Hamm, Christopher Walken, Dearbhla Molloy, Jon Tenney, Danielle Ryan, Lydia McGuinness, Darragh O’Kane, and Abigail Coburn.SYNOPSIS:A pair of star-crossed lovers in Ireland get caught up in their family’s land dispute.Wild Mountain Thyme is a romantic tale equal parts conventional, […]

Movie Review – Separation (2021)

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Separation, 2021.Directed by William Brent Bell. Starring Rupert Friend, Madeleine Brewer, Brian Cox, Violet McGraw, Troy James, Simon Quarterman, and Mamie Gummer.SYNOPSIS:A young girl finds solace in her artist father and the ghost of her dead mother.In a verbally explosive argument during 2019’s Marriage Story that has been memed to death, Adam Driver lost all […]

Movie Review – Things Heard & Seen (2021)

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Things Heard & Seen, 2021.Written and Directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. Starring Amanda Seyfried, Karen Allen, James Norton, Natalia Dyer, Rhea Seehorn, Alex Neustaedter, James Urbaniak, Michael Abbott Jr., Jack Gore, Ana Sophia Heger, Cotter Smith, Kelcy Griffin, Emily Dorsch, Jill Dalton, Elliot Frances Flynn, Joe Lanza, Olivia Boreham-Wing, and F. Murray […]

Movie Review – Four Good Days (2021)

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Four Good Days, 2021.Directed by Rodrigo Garcia. Starring Mila Kunis, Glenn Close, Stephen Root, Joshua Leonard, Rebecca Field, Chad Lindberg, Michael Hyatt, and Sam Hennings.SYNOPSIS:A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.Played by a disheveled and strung-out looking Mila Kunis in Four Good Days (masking inflamed gums with […]

Movie Review – Sleight (2016)

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Sleight, 2016.Directed by J.D. Dillard. Starring Jacob Latimore, Seychelle Gabriel, Dulé Hill, Storm Reid, Sasheer Zamata, Brandon Johnson, Cameron Esposito, and Frank Clem.SYNOPSIS:A young street magician (Jacob Latimore) is left to care for his little sister after their parents passing, and turns to illegal activities to keep a roof over their heads. When he gets […]

Movie Review – The Resort (2021)

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The Resort, 2021.Written and Directed by Taylor Chien. Starring Bianca Haase, Brock O’Hurn, Michael Vlamis, Michelle Randolph, Dave Sheridan, Dante Jimenez, Romualdo Castillo, and Rodney Gemberling.SYNOPSIS:Four friends head to Hawaii to investigate reports of a haunting at an abandoned resort in hopes of finding the infamous Half-Faced Girl. When they arrive, they soon learn you […]

Movie Review – Eat Wheaties! (2021)

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Eat Wheaties!, 2021.Written and Directed by Scott Abramovitch. Starring Tony Hale, Paul Walter Hauser, Danielle Brooks, Lamorne Morris, Robbie Amell, David Walton, Sarah Burns, Elisha Cuthbert, Sarah Chalke, Sarah Goldberg, and Alan Tudyk.SYNOPSIS:Sid Straw’s life unravels as he tries to prove that he was friends with a celebrity in college.Some stories simply don’t work when […]

Movie Review – Limbo (2021)

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Limbo, 2021.Written and Directed by Ben Sharrock. Starring Amir El-Masry, Vikash Bhai, Ola Orebiyi, Kwabena Ansah, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Kais Nashif, Kenneth Collard, Sanjeev Kohli, Cameron Fulton, Lewis Gribben, Grace Chilton, and Raymond Mearns.SYNOPSIS:Omar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island awaiting the fate […]

Movie Review – Mortal Kombat (2021)

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Mortal Kombat, 2021.Directed by Simon McQuoid. Starring Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Tadanobu Asano, Mehcad Brooks, Ludi Lin, Chin Han, Joe Taslim, Hiroyuki Sanada, Max Huang, Sisi Stringer, Matilda Kimber, Laura Brent, Daniel Nelson, Melanie Jarnson, Ian Streetz, Nathan Jones, Yukiko Shinohara, Ren Miyagawa, Damon Herriman, and Angus Sampson.SYNOPSIS:Washed-up MMA fighter Cole Young, unaware […]