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Movie Review – Where is Kyra? (2018)

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Where is Kyra?, 2018.Directed by Andrew Dosunmu. Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Kiefer Sutherland, Sam Robards, and Suzanne Shepherd.SYNOPSIS:In Brooklyn, New York, Kyra (Pfeiffer) loses her job and struggles to survive on her ailing mother’s income. As the weeks and months go on, her problems worsen. This leads her on a risky and enigmatic path that threatens […]

Movie Review – Finding Your Feet (2017)

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Finding Your Feet, 2017.Directed by Richard Loncraine. Starring Imelda Staunton, Timothy Spall, Celia Imrie, Joanna Lumley, Phoebe Nicholls, David Heyman, Josie Lawrence, Sian Thomas, and John Sessions. SYNOPSIS:On the eve of retirement a middle class, judgmental snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her […]

Movie Review – Beirut (2018)

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Beirut, 2018.Directed by Brad Anderson. Starring Jon Hamm, Rosamond Pike, Dean Norris, Mark Pellegrino, Idir Chender, Shea Whigham, Douglas Hodge, Jonny Coyne, Alon Aboutboul, and Larry Pine.SYNOPSIS:Caught in the crossfires of civil war, CIA operatives must send a former U.S. diplomat to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind.Beirut is a competently […]

Movie Review – Blockers (2018)

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Blockers, 2018.Directed by Kay Cannon. Starring John Cena, Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz, Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan, Gideon Adlon, Ramona Young, Gina Gershon, Miles Robbins, Gary Cole, Graham Phillips, Jimmy Bellinger, T.C. Carter, and Hannibal Buress.SYNOPSIS:Three parents try to stop their daughters from having sex on Prom night.Preparing young adults for their first sexual encounter is […]

Movie Review – A Quiet Place (2018)

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A Quiet Place, 2018.Directed by John Krasinski. Starring Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, and Noah Jupe.SYNOPSIS:A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.A Quiet Place presents one of the worst possible scenarios to conceive and bring into the world a baby (also known as beings that […]

Movie Review – Isle of Dogs (2018)

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Isle Of Dogs, 2018.Directed By Wes Anderson Featuring the voice talents of Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Kunichi Nomura, Akira Takayama, Frances McDormand, Greta Gerwig, Scarlett Johansson, Yoko Ono, Harvey Keitel, F. Murray Abraham, Tilda Swinton, Akira Ito, Ken Watanabe, Liev Schreiber, Courtney B. Vance, Fisher Stevens, Kara […]

Movie Review – Final Portrait (2017)

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Final Portrait, 2017.Written and Directed by Stanley Tucci. Starring Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Sylvie Testud, Tony Shalhoub, Clémence Poésy, and James Faulkner.SYNOPSIS:The story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti.The creative process for artists is a nightmare. This sentiment has been explored time and time again, but rarely so intimate to a singular piece. The […]

Movie Review – Gemini (2018)

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Gemini, 2018.Written and Directed by Aaron Katz. Starring Lola Kirke, Zoe Kravitz, John Cho, Greta Lee, Nelson Franklin, Michelle Forbes, Ricki Lake, Reeve Carney, James Ransone, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Todd Louiso, Marianne Randon, and Gabriela Flores.SYNOPSIS:A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant […]

Movie Review – Ready Player One (2018)

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Ready Player One, 2018.Directed by Steven Spielberg Starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller, Lena Waithe, Hannah John-Kamen, Ralph Ineson, Mckenna Grace, Win Morisaki, Susan Lynch, and Philip ZhaoSYNOPSIS:When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS […]

Movie Review – Journey’s End (2018)

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Journey’s End, 2018.Directed by Saul Dibb. Starring Asa Butterfield, Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham, Tom Sturridge, Robert Glenister, Miles Jupp, Theo Barklem-Biggs, Jake Curran, Rupert Wickham, Oliver Dimsdale, Nicholas Agnew, Andy Gathergood, Adam Colborne, Derek Barr, and Toby Jones.SYNOPSIS:Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of […]