Tag: Kathryn Newton
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Winner, based on the true story of Reality Winner
Winner is based on the true story of Reality Winner. She is a veteran of six years in the Air Force, where she worked translating Arabic, Dari, and Pashto. After her stint in the Air Force, she went to work for the NSA. While at the NSA she leaked some documents about Russian interference in…
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Blockers, farcical parents and grounded kids
Blockers is several years old and finally hit the streamers, which means I watched it. This film is low brow comedy, raunchy, with physical gags and ridiculous situations. In other words, it’s funny. It’s about 3 over-protective parents who try to block their daughters from having sex on prom night.
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Lisa Frankenstein, a bonkers horror comedy
Lisa Frankenstein tells the story of Lisa (Kathryn Newton), a teen girl who falls in love with a reanimated corpse from a neglected graveyard. The name on the grave is Frankenstein. The Creature (Cole Sprouse) from the grave shows up at her door covered in mud. She cleans him up and discovers he’s missing a…
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The Map of Tiny Perfect Things explores perfection, math, and letting go
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things fits in the genre of stories about people who relive the same day over and over. I have no qualms about this plot idea being used elsewhere before. This is a unique treatment and an enjoyable one. It’s streaming on Prime Video.
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Review: Big Little Lies, season 1
When I read Liane Moriarty’s 2014 novel Big Little Lies I thought it was one of the best-written novels I’d ever read. Since then I’ve read everything I can find by Liane Moriarty. The novel became a TV series, created and written by David E. Kelley. It’s almost as good as the book.