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STORYLINE: Forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, former baseball player Ray Waller moves into a new house with his wife and two children. He hopes that the backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for himself. However, a dark secret from the home’s past soon unleashes a…

STORYLINE: It is Cord Jefferson’s hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write…

      In addition to my annual ten favorite films of the year I have added a handful of categories to highlight additional films of 2023 I felt were note worthy.  I call them sidebars.  Enjoy and RESPECTFULLY discuss.  BEST FAMILY FILMS: The Inventor (little ones esp) Champions, Are You There God It’s Me…

STORYLINE: From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs…

STORYLINE: With dreams of opening a shop in a city  renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.    It is hard to replace an iconic actor in an iconic role.  When it works it works it works neauifully.  For instance…

SYNSOPSIS: Maestro will tell the complex love story of Leonard and Felicia, a story that spans over 30 years-from the time they met in 1946 at a party and continuing through two engagements, a 25 year marriage, and three children: Jamie Bernstein, Alexander Bernstein and Nina Bernstein Simmons.    Bradley Cooper returns to the directors…

     It is the time of year when holiday films get taken off the shelf for sone well deserved holiday play time.  If you’re me you seek theatrical screenings of these movies.        This week alone I have attended screenings of not one but three incredible holiday films and drunk them up…

SYNSOPSIS; The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.     The studio A24 has…

STORYLINE:  Nicolas Cage stars as Paul Matthews, a listless family man and tenured professor with an affinity for evolutionary biology and anxiety regarding his own anonymity. One day, he discovers he has begun to appear in other people’s dreams at an exponential rate. As in life, his presence in these dreams is banal and non-intrusive…

STORYLINE: An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.     It has been a year of long hustororocal epics.  Oppenheimer had a three hour runtime.  Killers of the Flower Moob…