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Review: ‘Goldstone’ Is A Neo-Western, Outback Noir Twist On The Classic Crime Drama
Goldstone is an Australian film from Ivan Sen starring Aaron Pedersen, Alex Russell, Jacki Weaver, David Wenham, and Michelle Lim Davidson; about a detective named Jay Swan (Pedersen) that find himself in the small, desolate, country town of Goldstone, much to the dismay of the locals, in an attempt to sole the case of a…
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‘Irreplaceable You’ Trailer: Netflix’s Tearjerker Rom-Com With Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kate McKinnon, And More
I don’t know what Netflix is doing with Irreplaceable You, but I can only guess their marketing strategy matches the mixed emotions of the movie itself. Y’see, the film, which boasts a rather great cast with Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Huisman, Christopher Walken, Brian Tyree Henry, Jacki Weaver, Kate McKinnon, Steve Coogan, and Timothy Simons, is…
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‘The Polka King’ Trailer: Jack Black Runs A Polka Ponzi Scheme
Sometimes it’s really hard to gauge what movies to see while you’re scrambling around Sundance. Plenty of them have big names attached but you know there will be one or two star-studded films that just won’t click with the festival crowd. That was apparently the case with The Polka King, a title that virtually guaranteed…
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Review: James Franco’s ‘The Disaster Artist’ Is For More Than Just Fans Of ‘The Room’
Here in DC and just about any major city in the country, you can find scores of midnight moviegoers attending screenings of Tommy Wiseau’s The Room. Arguably the worst film ever made, or certainly in the pantheon of worsts, Wiseau’s passion project sets the bar for ineptitude, and people love it for exactly that reason.…