Tag: Movie Review

Aretha Franklin is the undisputed Queen of Soul! She led an extraordinary life, full of triumphs and tribulations. Respect is an attempt to capture her life in all its glory. As with most biopics, Respect begins with Aretha as a child played by Skye Dakota Turner. We get some background on her upbringing as her…
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Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most popular and well-known works. One might grumble and wonder if we really need another adaptation of Macbeth. When an adaptation is as good as Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, the answer is inevitably yes, yes we do. This one has a killer cast with Denzel Washington taking on…
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Petite Maman was written and directed by one of my favorite filmmakers working right now, Céline Sciamma. You might recognize Sciamma’s name from her 2019 tour de force, Portrait of a Lady on Fire. If you haven’t seen that masterpiece, you should really stop reading and go watch it. Petite Maman is an incredibly different…
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Don’t Look Up is from writer and director Adam McKay and has the signature McKay tone but the premise is a little more absurd than his usual subject matter. While doing research one night, Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) discovers a massive comet on a trajectory to collide with Earth in six months. Fellow scientist Dr.…
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Director Paolo Sorrentino decided to take a page out of Alfonso Cuaron’s book and make a movie about his childhood. The Hand of God takes place in Naples in the 1980’s and follows the story of Fabietto (Filippo Scotti) as he comes of age. He lives with his parents and older brother Marchino (Marlon Joubert).…
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Zola has such an interesting backstory it almost seems like it was made up to promote the movie. The story was inspired by a popular Twitter thread containing 148 tweets in 2015. The tweets and the story itself came from a Detroit waitress by the name of A’Ziah “Zola” King. The Twitter thread quickly went…
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Flee is one of the most effective and moving documentaries I’ve seen in years. Amin is on the verge of getting married to his partner, Kasper. This major life event has triggered an emotional response from him and he wants to share his past for the first time. And what an intense past it is.…
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Joe Wright has directed some of my favorite films including Pride and Prejudice (2005) and Atonement (2007). His next project, Cyrano, was especially interesting to me because it was a period piece musical. That’s right, it’s a musical! I was pleasantly surprised at the execution. The plot is fairly straightforward. Cyrano (Peter Dinklage) is a…
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Passing is the directorial debut for Rebecca Hall who you might be more familiar with as an actor. She has had a fairly successful acting career with movies such as The Town (2010), Christine (2016), and Godzilla vs. Kong (2021). With Passing, Hall steps into the realm of writer and director. Irene (Tessa Thompson) is…
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Raya and the Last Dragon is the latest animated movie from Walt Disney Animation Studios. It takes place in the fantasy world of Kumandra. 500 years ago an evil force called the Druun began taking over Kumandra and turning all those who lived there into stone. Eventually, the dragons of Kumandra used the last of…
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