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Review: Fair Game

Leave a Comment / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / September 12, 2018 / Chris Matthews, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Dan Rather, David Andrews, Dick Cheney, Doug Liman, Fair Game, Fair Game: How a Top CIA Agent Was Betrayed by Her Own Government, Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, Naomi Watts, Polly Holliday, Sam Shepard, Sean Penn, The Politics of Truth: A Diplomat's Memoir: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity, Valarie Plame

I find it interesting that 2010’s Fair Game is back on Netflix now as a trending selection. This is the true story of how the George W. Bush administration used disinformation and the outing of one of their own CIA […]

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Review: Ithaca, from first time director Meg Ryan

Leave a Comment / Movies / By Virginia DeBolt / April 20, 2017 / Alex Neustaedter, Christine Nelson, Hamish Linklater, Ithaca, Jack Quaid, Meg Ryan, Sam Shepard, Scott Shepherd, Spencer Howell, Tom Hanks, trailers, William Saroyan, Women Directors

Ithaca is one of those women’s movies I’m always looking for. With Meg Ryan stepping up to her first ever directing role and several important positions behind the scenes filled by women, I had to watch it.

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Review: August: Osage County

Leave a Comment / Movies / By Virginia DeBolt / January 13, 2014 / Abigail Breslin, August: Osage County, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Cooper, Dermot Mulroney, elders rock, Ewan McGregor, Frozen River, Jinji Kohan, Julia Roberts, Julianne Nicholson, Juliette Lewis, Margo Martindale, Meryl Streep, Misty Upham, Orange is the New Black, Sam Shepard

There are many films that can make you feel as if you’ve been assaulted by life, by pain, by damage and abuse, by hurt. August: Osage County is one of these. It peers into the way abuse and pain carries

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