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    ‘Cyrano’: Joe Wright’s His Wrongs

    by Blake Ison April 6, 2022
    by Blake Ison April 6, 2022

    Coming off of the back of the critical failure The Woman in the Window, Joe Wright is making a return to form (of sorts) with his latest picture, the romantic, musical, period piece Cyrano. Based…

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    ‘King Richard’: The Fresh Prince Becomes King

    by Blake Ison March 1, 2022
    by Blake Ison March 1, 2022

    Sports dramas have been a staple of cinema for many years. Whether they be fictional or biographical, audiences love seeing stories of the trials and tribulations of sports. It could be an off-field drama in…

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    ‘Red Rocket’: A Parody of the American Dream

    by Blake Ison January 4, 2022
    by Blake Ison January 4, 2022

    Every once and a while, a filmmaker comes along to flip the script and tackle themes and ideas that most are afraid to touch. Sean Baker has done this his entire career, but especially with…

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    ‘Respect’: A Lackluster Look at the Life of the Queen of Soul

    by Blake Ison August 20, 2021
    by Blake Ison August 20, 2021

    Biopics have long been a crowd favorite. From the 1985 Best Picture winner Amadeus to the modern classic The Social Network, audiences are enamored by the idea of watching a biographical tale unfold on the…

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    ‘F9’: To Boldly Go Where No ‘Fast & Furious’ Film Has Gone Before

    by Blake Ison June 17, 2021
    by Blake Ison June 17, 2021

    The Fast & Furious franchise is an ever-evolving set of films that has fascinated and possibly baffled audiences for the past two decades. Once upon a time, the franchise was about street racing, pink slips,…

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    ‘Voyagers’: More of a Space Oddity Than an Odyssey

    by Blake Ison April 8, 2021
    by Blake Ison April 8, 2021

    Voyagers is written and directed by Neil Burger of Limitless fame, and stars Colin Farrell, Tye Sheridan, and Lily-Rose Depp. In it, a crew of young astronauts embarks on a multi-generational mission to save humanity, all…

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    ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’: An Outlandish Battle for the Ages

    by Blake Ison March 24, 2021
    by Blake Ison March 24, 2021

    From director Adam Wingard, Godzilla vs. Kong is the next epic installment in the Warner Bros. MonsterVerse that has been crafted over the past seven years. Kicking it off with Godzilla in 2014 and following…

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    ‘Crisis’ Fails to Stick the Landing Across Any of Its Three Narratives

    by Blake Ison March 17, 2021
    by Blake Ison March 17, 2021

    Coming nine years after his debut feature film, director Nicholas Jarecki returns with Crisis. The film stars Gary Oldman, Evangeline Lilly, and Armie Hammer and tells three colliding stories about the world of opioids and their…

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    ‘Occupation: Rainfall’ – When It Rains, It Unfortunately Falls

    by Blake Ison February 20, 2021
    by Blake Ison February 20, 2021

    Occupation: Rainfall comes to us from the mind of writer/director Luke Sparke and is the sequel to Sparke’s previous film, Occupation. Picking up two years after aliens have landed on Earth, a group of Aussie…

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    ‘Beau Travail’: Hard Work Has Never Looked So Good

    by Blake Ison September 7, 2020
    by Blake Ison September 7, 2020

    Beau Travail is the 1999 cult classic from renowned director, Claire Denis. It tells the story of Galoup, an ex-Foreign Legion officer who recalls his time leading troops in the country of Djibouti; and thanks…

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    ‘Tenet’ Ushers in a New Era of “Spy-Fi”

    by Blake Ison August 27, 2020
    by Blake Ison August 27, 2020

    As the uncertainty of 2020 continues, there is one thing that we can be certain of, and that’s that we have another Christopher Nolan hit on our hands. A film that has seemingly united the…

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    ‘Lucky Grandma’: Making the Elderly Cool Again

    by Blake Ison May 27, 2020
    by Blake Ison May 27, 2020

    Lucky Grandma is the Chinese/American debut feature film directed by Sasie Sealy, and tells the story of Grandma Wong, an ill-tempered, chain-smoking, newly widowed Grandma eager to live an independent life in the bustling Chinatown…

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    ‘Why Don’t You Just Die!’: From Russia, With (Some) Love

    by Blake Ison April 13, 2020
    by Blake Ison April 13, 2020

    Why Don’t You Just Die! comes from writer/director Kirill Sokolov and tells the story of Matvey, a young man who has been tasked with murdering his girlfriend’s detective father, Andrey, by none other than his…

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