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Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023)
STORYLINE: Mike Schmidt, a night guard at a local diner, becomes troubled after confronting the truth about the animatronic costumes that reside: they aren’t just robots. They are alive. Will he be able to survive all five nights at this haunted diner? Or is something more sinister at play? It is the final…
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A LOOK BACK AT SHAFT (1971)
STORYLINE: John Shaft is the ultimate in suave Black detectives. He first finds himself up against Bumpy, the leader of the Black crime mob, then against Black nationals, and finally working with both against the White Mafia who are trying to blackmail Bumpy by kidnapping his daughter. When you read I was…
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NYAD (2023; biopic)
STORYLINE: A riveting chapter in the life of world-class athlete Diana Nyad. Three decades after giving up marathon swimming in exchange for a prominent career as a sports journalist, at the age of 60, Diana becomes obsessed with completing an epic swim that always eluded her: the 110 mile trek from Cuba to Florida, often…
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A GREAT HOLIDAY HYBRID FEATURE FILM
STORYLINE: Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, is bored with doing the same thing every year for Halloween. One day he stumbles into Christmas Town, and is so taken with the idea of Christmas that he tries to get the resident bats, ghouls, and goblins of Halloween Town to help him put on…
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An R Rated, Offensive, Musical Parent Trap
Note this is a blog about a movie called DICKS: THE MUSICAL. Read at your own discretion. STORYLINE: A pair of business rivals discover that they’re identical twins and decide to swap places in an attempt to trick their divorced parents to get back together. As mentioned in the title of this blog…
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KILLERS of the FLOWER MOON (2023)
Storyline: Members of the Osage tribe in the United States are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s, sparking a major F.B.I. investigation involving J. Edgar Hoover. Over the past few years the pendulum has swung back towards long run times at the movies. Some of these films have been fantastic (Oppenheimer, No…
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Taylor Swift The Concert “Film”
STORYLINE: it’s a concert film and concert films are not real movies. They are over extended and often unentertaining music videos. Based off what I wrote for the storyline for the Taylor Swift Eras Tour cab you guess what I am going to say about this feature film? Hint it is not how…
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MISTER ORGAN: A Bizarre & Intriguing Documentary
STORYLINE: Journalist David Farrier (Tickled) is drawn into a game of cat and mouse with a mysterious individual. Delving deeper he unearths a trail of court cases, royal bloodlines and ruined lives, in this true story of psychological warfare. In both thr biopic and documentary genres there is a sub genre I have…
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A Disappointing Cinematic Checkin
STORYLINE: Americans Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called ‘The Royal Hotel’ in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy and a host of locals give…
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SHE CAME TO ME (2023)
STORYLINE: Composer Steven Lauddem is creatively blocked and unable to finish the score for his big comeback opera. At the behest of his wife Patricia, formerly his therapist, he sets out in search of inspiration. What he discovers is much more than he bargained for, or imagined The rom-com genre hit its peak…