Category: Movies
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Watch This: Trailers and Teasers for The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Just in time for Halloween, Fox is doing a remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. There is a following for this classic – people who have seen it dozens of times and know every line by heart. How will this remake do with the die-hard fans? Will it convert new viewers who have never…
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Review: Margarita, With a Straw
Margarita, With a Straw is from India. It is set partly in India, partly in New York City. The film is a mix of Hindi and English. It’s the story of a college student named Laila (Kalki Koechlin) who leaves her home and comes to New York University to study.
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Watch This: Trailer for The Eagle Huntress
The Eagle Huntress is a documentary about a 13 year old Mongolian girl who wants to break with 12 generations of family history and become a female eagle huntress.
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Review: Kelly and Cal
Kelly and Cal stars Juliette Lewis as new mom Kelly. I’ve never seen Juliette Lewis in a part like this. She’s a mom. She’s the lead. She nails it. She should be allowed to soar like this more often and not relegated to supporting roles.
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Review: Tallulah
Tallulah is a fascinating character study of broken people and how they deal with their responsibilities and relationships. It features a neglected baby, a homeless woman, and a lonely writer.
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Watch This: Trailer for Beauty and the Beast
This is the French version of the old fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast (original title La belle et la bête). Disney has a version of this story in the works, but this one looks like a film for grown ups.
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Review: Love Is Not Perfect
Love Is Not Perfect (original title L’amore è imperfetto) stars a woman and has a woman director. Those two things enticed me to watch it. It’s in Italian with English subtitles. The point of the film, the best I could figure it out, is that it takes a lot of time and mistakes to grow…
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Trailers and News from Comic Con SDCC
There is so much news and hype coming out of the San Diego Comic Con. I’m not interested in most of it, but I’m very interested in some of it. Here are some of the things I’m watching happen in San Diego.
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Review: In the Valley of Elah
In the Valley of Elah from 2007 is a searing condemnation of the war in Iraq. The story is a mystery about a father and a cop who investigate the son’s murder just outside a mythical Army base in New Mexico.
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Review: Ashby
Sometimes you just get tired of scouring the streaming services in search of a film starring women or directed by a woman. Then you watch a comedy and hope for the best. Ashby is part comedy, part coming of age, part contract killer, and part end-of-life decisions.