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RUSTIN (2023)
STORYLINE: Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington. The biopic genre has a history of being cookie cutter and formulaic. That statement is not limited to the biopic genre, that will explain but I am wondering off…
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A REVISIT IF A HOLIDAY CLASSIC
STORYLINE: Christmas is approaching and 9-year-old Ralphie Parker wants only one thing: a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun. When he mentions it at the dinner table, his mother’s immediate reaction is that he’ll shoot his eye out. He then decides on a perfect theme for his teacher, but her reaction is like his…
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PRISCILLA (2023)
STORYLINE: When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend. Through Priscilla’s eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and…
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THE HOLDOVERS (2023)
STORYLINE: Nobody likes teacher Paul Hunham (Giamatti) — not his students, not his fellow faculty, not the headmaster, who all find his pomposity and rigidity exasperating. With no family and nowhere to go over Christmas holiday in 1970, Paul remains at school to supervise students unable to journey home. After a few days, only one…
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Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
STORYLINE: The world of freight handlers Wilbur Grey and Chick Young is turned upside down when the remains of Frankenstein’s monster and Dracula arrive from Europe to be used in a house of horrors. Dracula awakens and escapes with the weakened monster, who he plans to re-energize with a new brain. Larry Talbot (the Wolfman)…
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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…