Category: Movies
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Review: Hot Pursuit
Hot Pursuit stars Reese Witherspoon and Sofía Vergara in a ridiculous and funny tale about cops and federal witnesses and crooked cops and crooked witness and untrustworthy cops and untrustworthy witnesses.
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Watch This: Trailer for Mon Roi (My King)
Mon Roi, or My King in English, is a French film directed by Maïwenn, the 4th film from this director. Maïwenn also wrote the screenplay. Vincent Cassel and Emmanuelle Bercot star as the couple in the film.
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Review: The Truth about Emanuel
The Truth about Emanuel is a surreal film, written and directed by Francesca Gregorini. I watched it all with interest, so I obviously found it worth watching. It isn’t a great film, but it drags you into its unhinged world. It’s about madness and grief, wounded healers and magic.
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Watch This: Trailer(s) for Bad Moms
Bad Moms stars Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, and Kathryn Hahn as the bad moms. Other moms in the story are played by Christina Applegate and Jada Pinkett Smith. Normally a cast like this would get me very excited, but my excitement is tempered by the fact that both writers and directors are male (Jon Lucas…
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Watch This: Trailer for Absolutely Fabulous the Movie
The British comedy series Absolutely Fabulous is now a movie. It will open in theaters the US on July 22. Be ready to go, sweetie darling. Absolutely Fabulous reunites Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley as the iconic Edina and Patsy along with the rest of the original cast that includes Julia Sawalha as Saffy, Jane…
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Review: All About E
Australian writer and director Louise Wadley brings us All About E, a story about an Arabic-Australian woman and her efforts to figure out her life. This effort includes losing love because of being closeted to her family, having lots of sex as a very cool DJ, absconding with a bag of money for a long…
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Watch This: Trailer for Maggie’s Plan
Maggie’s Plan has a great cast, a female writer and director, and a plot idea that seems original in concept. Here’s the plot synopsis:
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Review: Echo Park
Echo Park is Sophia’s (Mamie Gummer) story. We find her at a point in her life when she questions everything, she shakes up everything, and she turns a 180 on the way she’s been living. There are spoilers ahead.
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Review: Confirmation, with a dash of Lemonade
I never thought I’d see Confirmation since I don’t have HBO, but Dish had a promotion going to get people to watch HBO and Showtime all weekend. The only thing I wanted to see on HBO was Kerry Washington as Anita Hill in the film Confirmation.
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Watch This: Trailer for The Girl on the Train
The Girl on the Train stars Emily Blunt in a tale based on Paula Hawkins’ bestselling novel by the same name. I fell in love with Emily Blunt way back in Sunshine Cleaning in that exact moment when she climbed up a wobbly wooden train trestle as a train thundered overhead. I haven’t found any…