Category: Reviews

Let’s just get this out of the way now. You will probably only enjoy Mank if you’re a cinephile or if you seriously love Citizen Kane and/or Orson Welles. If you don’t fit into any of those categories I’d advise you to just go ahead and skip this one. Mank is short for Herman Mankiewicz.…
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From David Dobkin, the director who brought you Wedding Crashers, comes one of the most ridiculous movies you will see this year. Eurovision stars Will Ferrell so right away you know what kind of movie you’re in for. I highly recommend not being sober while watching this movie. I will say for a Will Ferrell…
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Every once in a while you’ll see a movie that is so wildly different than anything you’ve seen before and it will make you incredibly happy that unique stories are still being told. Sound of Metal is that type of movie. Ruben (Riz Ahmed) and Lou (Olivia Cooke) are in a band together. Lou sings…
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Quo Vadis, Aida? is based on a true story. It was one of my favorite movies of 2020 and tells the story of a genocide that few people seem to be acutely aware of. In 1995, the Bosnian Serb army raided the town of Srebrenica. The army was under the command of General Ratko Mladic.…
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The Mole Agent is a documentary from filmmaker Maite Alberdi. Alberdi bends the genre and form of traditional documentaries by setting the stage as more of a slick spy thriller. Investigator Rómulo Aitken has a client who suspects that her mother is being abused at a nursing home. He places an ad for an older…
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The White Tiger is a Netflix original movie that has garnered some buzz during award season. Writer and director Ramin Bahrani has done a mix of projects but I had never seen any of his work, so I was excited to view this movie with fresh eyes. The White Tiger follows a precocious young man…
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I am a massive fan of Vanessa Kirby. I first saw her in the Netflix show The Crown where she plays the young version of Princess Margaret. She went on to star in two huge action movies, Mission: Impossible – Fallout and Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw. It was an unlikely transition from…
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The New Mutants is the last of the X-Men movies (for now). You know they will be rebooting this franchise at some point. It doesn’t feature any of the traditional X-Men you know and love. It’s an entirely new cast with faces you haven’t seen before and powers that are new. When I heard that…
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Over the Moon is the latest animated movie from Netflix. Fei Fei (Cathy Ang) is a young girl who loses her mother. Four years pass, and her father is ready to move on and marry another woman. Fei Fei is still grieving over her loss and can’t fathom how her father could possibly have forgotten…
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To say I was excited for this movie would be an understatement. I love Billie Holiday. You can recognize her voice anywhere. My favorite song of hers is I’ll Be Seeing You. If you haven’t ever listened to any of Holiday’s music, this is an excellent one to start with. It’s a beautiful song tinged…
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