Category: Movies
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Drop, exciting thriller with Meghann Fahy
Drop is a suspenseful thriller about a widowed mom who is pressured to murder someone to save her young son from a killer.
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Signature Move, love and wrestling
Signature Move does a lot of things right, even though it isn’t the best movie ever. It’s a love story and an homage to Lucha Libre and luchadoras.
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Stay the Night, a slow romance told in one night
Stay the Night is an everything-happens-in-one-day kind of romance. Two people having their own separate bad days meet in a bar and stumble through a lot together before the morning.
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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl review
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a rich, textured tale of family secrets revealed during a traditional Zambian funeral. Thematically, it shows how patriarchal systems and customs are enforced by both men and women. There are some spoilers ahead.
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The Great Dictator (1940), Charlie Chaplin’s first talkie
The Great Dictator is an anti-Nazi political satire from 1940, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. He makes fun of dictators, which we have come to realize since then are all alike: narcissistic bullies who can’t take criticism and want to run the entire world according to their whims.
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National Anthem, a world hidden in plain sight
National Anthem plunks a New Mexico day laborer into a world he never knew existed when he gets a job on a ranch run by a large group of queer rodeo riders.
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The Old Guard 2 keeps up the fight
The Old Guard 2 is a continuation of the story of the immortals we met in The Old Guard. A few new characters and twists bring some changes but basically the story remains pretty much the same.
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Columbus, a quiet indie full of wonders
Columbus stars Haley Lu Richardson as Casey, a young woman of about 19 who lives in Columbus, Indiana and who is enthralled by the famous architecture her home town is famous for.
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Summer of 69 – yes, that 69
Summer of 69 from writer and director Jillian Bell is a funny tale about a naive high school girl who thinks knowing how to execute a particular sex activity will land her the boy of her dreams. It sounds like it’s about sex, but it’s really about growing up and making friends.