Tag: Woody Harrelson
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a wild ride
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri came out in 2017 but I just saw it for the first time. I’m late to the party. It showed up on Hulu, where I watched it. I knew it was going to be good because it won so many awards at the time, but I was surprised by how…
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Fly Me to the Moon review, fun comedy about the space race
Fly Me to the Moon built itself on top of real history with some comedy and romance added for spice. It’s about NASA’s Apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969. It’s a fun watch and brought back some vivid memories of that time for me, but it is not entirely factual. There are some…
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The Edge of Seventeen: coming of age isn’t easy
The Edge of Seventeen is a few years old. I missed it the first time around. It’s back in the rotation on Netflix and Tubi, so I took a look. Hailee Steinfeld and Haley Lu Richardson are the stars of this teen drama about a girl dealing very badly with her outsized teen emotions.
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Suncoast review, learning to live with loss
Suncoast tells a semi-autobiographical story from writer and director Laura Chinn about a small Florida family dealing with the impending loss of a son and brother to brain cancer. That sounds grim, and in many ways it is, but it’s also about life and coming of age. It’s as full of life as it is…
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Kate: Oh dear, are you bleeding?
Kate, trained assassin, knows how to do little more than kill people. When someone poisons her and she realizes it’s her last day on earth, naturally she kills more people in revenge. This bloody action thriller is on Netflix.
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Review: The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle gut punched me when I read it about 10 years ago. It’s now a film. As a film, it still conveys the emotional wreckage of a dysfunctional family upbringing in vivid ways.
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Watch This: Trailer for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri looks so good. So good. It stars Frances McDormand in a part that if it wasn’t written for her, it should have been. It promises to be wonderful, if the trailer can be believed.
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Review: Now You See Me
Do you have fun at magic shows? Can you react to a trick with a 6-year-old’s sense of delight? If the answer is yes, you are going to really enjoy this magic show of a movie. Now You See Me is a magic act wrapped up in a heist movie and featuring a Robin Hood…