Month: August 2024
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The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat review
The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat is a female friendship story. It has a star studded cast, directed by Tina Mabry. The story begins with the main characters in high school, where they bonded. It carries through until they are all in their 50s.
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Badhaai Do review: LGBTQ lives in India
Badhaai Do comes from India. It the story of a lavender marriage where a gay man and a lesbian decide to hide behind a marriage so their parents and society at large will think they are not queer. That’s them faking it in the photo above. They do look like a happy couple. It’s an…
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Parachute review: troubled people struggle with life
Parachute, an intense drama from director Brittany Snow, tells a gritty and difficult story about a young woman with food and body issues.
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Thoughts on Orphan Black Echoes: full season review
Orphan Black: Echoes finished its first season on AMC+. I’ve watched it all now and am ready to share some thoughts on this science thriller led by Krysten Ritter and Keeley Hawes.
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Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All
Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All is a documentary as unique as the Indigo Girls themselves. It uses lots of saved movies and photos belonging to the Indigo Girls as well as interviews and concert footage to tell the story of their career and growth as musicians and as people.
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review: buckle up for a wild ride
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is the latest George Miller film about the post apocalyptic world of the Mad Max series. Since I’ve seen every other Mad Max offering, it seemed only right to watch this one when it reached the streamer Max.
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Muriel’s Wedding, this 30 year old gem still packs a message
Muriel’s Wedding, a 1994 Australian classic, still tells a moving story about family, friendship, and dreams. It’s available on Netflix right now, so I watched it again. After 30 years the thing I remembered was Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths singing ABBA songs. The rest of it had faded. It was like a new movie…
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Daughters review: pack some tissues for this one
Daughters, from directors Angela Patton and Natalie Rae, is a documentary covering several years of a story about incarcerated fathers and a program in a Washington D.C. jail that let them be together with their daughters for a dance.
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Mission: Cross review, a Korean action comedy
Mission: Cross is a South Korean comedy and action movie. It’s full of humor and lots of action plus a great car chase.
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The Union review: action flick with an excellent cast
The Union is an action flick about a group of people who are not CIA, FBI, or any government agency. They are a group of nobodies who are doing the spy, action hero thing under the radar and as unknown characters.