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Rambo: Last Blood (2019) Review
Rambo: Last Blood (2019) Director: Adrian Grunberg Screenwriters: Matt Cirulnick, Sylvester Stallone Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Paz Vega, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Adriana Barraza, Yvette Monreal The first four films in the Rambo franchise aim to celebrate the individuals fighting for good in complicated situations. First Blood deals with how poorly Vietnam veterans were treated after returning home from war – while…
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Downton Abbey (2019) Review
Downton Abbey (2019) Director: Michael Engler Screenwriter: Julian Fellowes Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Jim Carter, Michelle Dockery, Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith, Imelda Staunton, Penelope Wilton. I would like to begin this review by stating that I am a huge fan of ‘Downton Abbey’. Therefore, I was both excited and nervous when it was announced that there was going…
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Border (2018) Review
Border (2018) Director: Ali Abbasi Screenwriters: Ali Abbasi, Isabella Eklof, John Ajvide Lindqvist Starring: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jorgen Thorsson, Ann Petren, Sten Ljunggren Films that collide age-old mythology and ancient folklore with the hustle and bustle of the contemporary world and modern sensibilities always leave an impact. Societies across the globe were built upon…
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The Souvenir (2019) Review
The Souvenir (2019) Director: Joanna Hogg Screenwriter: Joanna Hogg Starring: Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke, Tilda Swinton Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) is a young film student living in London in the early 1980s. She wears oversized shirts, carries an Olympus camera round her neck at parties, and sits at a typewriter each day, attempting to…
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It Chapter Two (2019) Review
It Chapter Two (2019) Director: Andy Muschietti Screenwriters: Gary Dauberman Starring: James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, Bill Skarsgård Two years ago, It took the September box office by storm. The Andy Muschietti directed feature set records for the biggest opening weekend in September, beat out Paranormal Activity…
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Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition – Review
Utter the name Stanley Kubrick to even the most casual of filmgoers and there’ll be a look of acknowledgement or even trepedation that is returned to you, such is the legendary director’s reputation for pushing boundaries and his overall impact on the film industry. The director of such monumental classics as A Clockwork Orange and…
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Little Women (1994) Retrospective Review
Director: Gillian Armstrong Screenplay: Robin Swicord, based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott Starring: Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes, Christian Bale, Eric Stoltz, Susan Sarandon After a decade-long slog through the backwaters of American Independent Cinema (both in front of and behind the camera) Greta Gerwig finally…
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Overcomer (2019) Review
Overcomer (2019) Director: Alex Kendrick Screenwriters: Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick Starring: Alex Kendrick, Priscilla Shirer, Shari Rigby, Jack Sterner The Kendrick Brothers have made several fundamentalist Christian films over the years. The entirety of their filmography is set in the crumbling, idyllic small-town America and features Salt-of-the-Earth protagonists whom face the hardships of marital strife,…
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Dragonworld (1994) Review
Dragonworld (1994) Director: Ted Nicolaou Screenwriters: Suzanne Glazener Naha, Ted Nicolaou Starring: Sam Mackenzie, Courtland Mead, Janet Henfrey You know how the best part of The Phantom Menace is the trade negotiations? Well, if you agree with that, you’ll love 1994’s Dragonworld, a direct-to-video kid’s release that is equal parts fantasy and anti-capitalist political thriller. The film…
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47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019) Review
47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019) Director: Johannes Roberts Screenwriters: Johannes Roberts, Ernest Riera Starring: Sophie Nelisse, Corinne Foxx, Brianne Tju, Sistine Stallone 47 Meters Down: Uncaged is a film almost completely unrelated to its 2017 predecessor. The story in this follow up revolves around a group of teen girls going scuba diving in a sunken…