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Movie Review – Sea Fever (2020)

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Sea Fever, 2020. Written and Directed by Neasa Hardiman. Starring Hermione Corfield, Dougray Scott, Ardalan Esmaili, Jack Hickey, Elie Bouakaze, Olwen Fouéré, and Connie Nielsen. SYNOPSIS: The crew of a West of Ireland trawler, marooned at sea, struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply. Sea Fever made its debut at […]

Movie Review – The Other Lamb (2020)

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The Other Lamb, 2020. Directed by Malgorzata Szumowska. Starring Michiel Huisman, Raffey Cassidy, Denise Gough, Eve Connolly, Kelly Campbell, Isabelle Connolly, Charlotte Moore, Zara Devlin, Ailbhe Cowley, Irene Kelleher, Jane Herbert, and Mallory Adams. SYNOPSIS: A girl born into an all-female cult led by a man in their compound begins to question his teachings and […]

Movie Review – Vivarium (2019)

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Vivarium, 2019. Directed by Lorcan Finnegan. Starring Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg, Eanna Hardwicke, Jonathan Aris, and Senan Jennings. SYNOPSIS: A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses. Maybe the American dream is a nightmare in disguise. That seems to be the point Vivarium (directed […]

Movie Review – Resistance (2020)

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Resistance, 2020. Written and Directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Edgar Ramírez, Clémence Poésy, Matthias Schweighöfer, Bella Ramsey, Géza Röhrig, Karl Markovics, Alicia von Rittberg, Vica Kerekes, and Ed Harris. SYNOPSIS: The story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans […]

Movie Review – Banana Split (2018)

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Banana Split, 2018. Directed by Benjamin Kasulke. Starring Hannah Marks, Liana Liberato, Dylan Sprouse, Addison Riecke, Haley Ramm, Jacob Batalon, Luke Spencer Roberts, Jessica Hecht, Ben Konigsberg, and Meagan Kimberly Smith. SYNOPSIS: Over the course of a summer, two teenage girls develop the perfect kindred spirit friendship, with one big problem: one of them is […]

Movie Review – The Burnt Orange Heresy (2020)

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The Burnt Orange Heresy, 2020. Directed by Giuseppe Capotondi Starring Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, Donald Sutherland, Mick Jagger, Rosalind Halstead, and Alessandro Fabrizi SYNOPSIS: Hired to steal a rare painting from one of the most enigmatic painters of all time, an ambitious art dealer becomes consumed by his own greed and insecurity as the operation […]

Movie Review – Blow the Man Down (2020)

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Blow the Man Down, 2020. Written and Directed by Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy. Starring Morgan Saylor, Sophie Lowe, Margo Martindale, June Squibb, Annette O’Toole, Marceline Hugot, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Meredith Holzman, Skipp Sudduth, Owen Burke, Will Brittain, and Gayle Rankin. SYNOPSIS: Mary Beth and Priscilla Connolly attempt to cover up a gruesome run-in with […]

Movie Review – Bloodshot (2020)

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Bloodshot, 2020. Directed by Dave Wilson. Starring Vin Diesel, Eiza González, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Guy Pearce, Toby Kebbell, Sam Heughan, Talulah Riley, Alex Hernandez, Siddharth Dhananjay, and Lamorne Morris. SYNOPSIS: Ray Garrison, a slain soldier, is re-animated with superpowers. If it were a better movie, Bloodshot would have taken the inherent blandness of its globetrotting […]

Movie Review – The Hunt (2020)

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The Hunt, 2020. Directed by Craig Zobel. Starring Betty Gilpin, Emma Roberts, J. C. MacKenzie, Hilary Swank, Justin Hartley, Ethan Suplee, Macon Blair, Glenn Howerton, Ike Barinholtz, Amy Madigan, Teri Wyble, Wayne Duvall, Sylvia Grace Crim, Steve Coulter, Reed Birney, Christopher Berry, Kate Nowlin, Dean J. West, Vince Pisani, and Sturgill Simpson. SYNOPSIS: Twelve strangers […]

Movie Review – The Postcard Killings (2020)

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The Postcard Killings, 2020. Directed by Danis Tanovic. Starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Cush Jumbo, Denis O’Hare, Naomi Battrick, Ruairi O’Connor, Joachim Król, Eva Röse, Lukas Loughran, Steven Mackintosh, Sallie Harmsen, Dylan Devonald Smith, Orla O’Rourke, Christopher Pizzey, Tim Ahern, Leander Vyvey, Ben Vinnicombe, Martin Wenner, and Famke Janssen. SYNOPSIS: A New York detective investigates the […]