Director Michael Mann tackles the man who made Ferrari a household name. Troy Kennedy Martin and Brock Yates’ screenplay drops us into 1957, where Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) is struggling in both his personal and professional life. He’s in the midst of an affair with Lina (Shailene Woodley) with whom he has a secret son.…
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After the very solid film, Marriage Story in 2019, writer and director Noah Baumbach decided to go off kilter with White Noise. The film opens with a montage of car crashes from movies that folks obsessed with film will enjoy trying to identify. Murray (Don Cheadle) is teaching a university class on film and performs…
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House of Gucci is the latest effort from director Ridley Scott, well known for making intense movies like Alien, Gladiator, Prometheus, and Thelma and Louise. House of Gucci appeared to be the perfect fit for Scott. It’s based on the true story of the murder of Maurizio Gucci, complete with family drama and high fashion.…
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Do you remember all of the controversy over Zero Dark Thirty’s depiction of torture? Let me just say that The Report’s depictions of torture are like ZDT 5.0. If you cannot stomach torture scenes I suggest you opt out of this one. I like to put my disclaimers at the beginning so you don’t waste…
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When award season started it was clear that Netflix was taking it seriously. The streaming giant released several movies that had Oscar bait written all over it. You could tell they wanted to be represented at the Oscars and be taken seriously by the establishment. One of the movies Netflix pushed to the forefront was…
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