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Perfect Blue ~ 25th Anniversary
STORYLINE: Mima leaves the idol group CHAM, in order to pursue her dream as an actress. Mima climbs up the rocky road to success by performing as rape victims and posing nude for magazines, but is haunted by her reflections of the past. Perfect Blue is twenty five years old now. I…
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Perfect Blue ~ 25th Anniversary
STORYLINE: Mima leaves the idol group CHAM, in order to pursue her dream as an actress. Mima climbs up the rocky road to success by performing as rape victims and posing nude for magazines, but is haunted by her reflections of the past. Perfect Blue is twenty five years old now. I…
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THE EQUALIZER 3: a 2023 Threequel.
STORYLINE: Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he’s done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the…
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Movies are Made for the Big Screen!
DTPRYLINE: A star-pilot for hire and his trusty sidekick must come to the rescue of a princess and save Planet Druidia from the clutches of the evil Spaceballs. I hate streaming services, Netflix chief among them. They take the social aspects out of the movies. The movie theater is a shared experience. …
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GOLDA (223)
GOLDA STORYLINE: Focuses on the intensely dramatic and high-stakes responsibilities and decisions that Golda Meir, also known as the ‘Iron Lady of Israel,’ faced during the Yom Kippur War. Does the moment a film is made effect how the story is portrayed? For instance during the writing of Zero Dark Thirty history was…
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Gran Turismo (2023)
Storyline: Based on the unbelievable, inspiring true story of a team of underdogs – a struggling, working-class gamer, a failed former race car driver, and an idealistic motorsport exec – who risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world. The summer season is winding down and I…
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RETRO REVIEW: THE WIND RISES (2013)
STORYLINE: Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world’s most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. The film chronicles much of his…
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SUMMER MOVIE REWIND!
The days, minute by minute, are getting shorter. This pleases me, as I prefer the longer hours of darkness that the fall and winter bring. With the summer movie season winding down, it is time to look back at the past few months of moviegoing. Let’s take the elephant out…
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An R Rated Comedy’ I’m no STRAYnger to them!
STORYLINE: An abandoned dog teams up with other strays to get revenge on his former owner. Why couldn’t the pirate see the movie? It was rated arrrgh! Fair warning Strays is a hard core R rated comedy. Ok, now that the warning is out of the way let me say…
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Sharks, Storms, & Surf! OH MY!
SYNSOPSIS: When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, nature’s deadliest killer rules sea, land, and air as thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace. A decade ago something bizarre swam into TV sets. Sharknado, a true B rated creature feature, instantly became a pop culture phenomenon that spawned a franchise with six entries. …