Tag: film review
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Review: ‘Love is Blind’ Is A Blurry And Overcrowded Misstep
When making art, killing your darlings can be hard to do. Sometimes the ideas are just too good and you are too proud of them to condense for the greater good of the piece. Love is Blind, a new romantic independent film starring newcomer Shannon Tarbet, Aidan Turner, Benjamin Walker, Matthew Broderick, and Chloe Sevigny,…
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Review: Netflix’s ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ Will Leave You “Playing” For Hours On End
The idea of a “choose your own adventure” story is nothing new. The ability of the reader/viewer/player to be able to dictate how the story goes is always fascinating and leave open endless possibilities. It’s been done in books for quite some time (as described in the movie). Recently, the craze has taken on a…
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Review: ‘Mid90s’, Jonah Hill’s Directorial Debut Starring Sunny Suljic And Lucas Hedges
As we get toward the end of the twenty-tens it feels like the nostalgia for the nineties is growing stronger,even as the time for2000s nostalgia looms great. With middle age staring many in the face it’s time for filmmakers to look back on past times just like others have before withGeorge Lucas’ American Graffiti, or…
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Review: ‘The Gospel According To André’, The Fashion Icon Finally Tells His Story
So it was around 1995 or 1996, back when E! would cover fashion and air fashion shows and while I was sitting back and taking in all the high fashion, beautiful models and seeing the actual designers who made the clothes I started to notice this very large black man. Always in the front row…
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Review: ‘Bilal: A New Breed Of Hero” Starring Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje And Ian McShane
With all the talk of diversity in front of and behind the camera, and with seeing some change happen in the award space, it’s still pretty tough to find much change in the land of Feature Animation. . While this past year we’ve had Coco from Pixar with its Mexican/Latin focused story and characters the most…
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Review: ‘The Clapper’ Starring Ed Helms, Amanda Seyfried, And Tracy Morgan
The Clapper is about a man named Eddie Krumble (Ed Helms) who has a job as an infomercial audience member. He’s basically paid to clap, look interested, laugh and more on these things. Pretty down on his luck, things turn sideways with unexpected and wanted fame when he becomes the focus of an ongoing joke…