Tag: movies
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MERCHANT IVORY (2023 – Documentary Feature)
STORYLINE: Follows the history of the Merchant Ivory partnership, featuring interviews with James Ivory and close collaborators detailing and celebrating their experiences of being a part of the company. (IMDb) When making a documentary about a subject you admire, I imagine it is difficult to remove your fandom, to create an unbiased motion picture. …
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SUPERMAN (2025)
STORYLINE: Superman must reconcile his alien Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as reporter Clark Kent. As the embodiment of truth, justice and the human way he soon finds himself in a world that views these as old-fashioned. (IMDb) Superhero fatigue has set in at the cinemas, for me. Between the Marvel and…
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ABRAHAM’S BOYS: A DRACULA STORY (2025)
STORYLINE: Abraham van Helsing moves his two sons to the United States in an attempt to escape their past. (IMDb) Movies inspired by vampires, Draculain particular, are all over the radar. It’s hard to top the 1931 Universal Monster Movie Dracula or the 1992 Gary Oldman Dracula adaption. Of course I have to…
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WHAT MAKES A MOVIES GOOD OR BAD?
What makes a movie a good or a bad one? That answer is different from person to person. I personally have two different answers to that question. I’m going to start with telling you my favorite movies. I often say it’s James Bond, and I do throughly love the 007 franchise.…
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PAVEMENTS (2025)
STORYLINE: A prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid, is an examination of the iconic 90s indie band Pavement. The film intimately shows the band preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour while simultaneously tracking the preparations for a musical based on their songs, a museum devoted to their history and a big-budget Hollywood biopic…
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MEFAN 2.0 (2025)
STORYLINE: Two years after M3GAN’s rampage, her creator, Gemma, resorts to resurrecting her infamous creation in order to take down Amelia, the military-grade weapon who was built by a defense contractor who stole M3GAN’s underlying tech. (IMDb) Its basic Hollywood mathematics, when a film is popular, it makes money, the idea of a…
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BRIDE HARD (2025)
STORYLINE: When a mercenary group takes a lavish wedding hostage, they have no idea what they are in for as the maid of honor is actually a secret agent ready to rain hellfire upon anyone who would ruin her best friend’s wedding. (IMDb) Comedies are untended to make the viewer laugh. They come…
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THE UNHOLY TRINITY (2025, western)
STORYLINE: Buried secrets of an 1870s Montana town spark violence when a young man returns to reclaim his legacy and is caught between a sheriff determined to maintain order and a mysterious stranger hell-bent on destroying it. (IMDb) Secret. Lies. Betrayal. No this is not a political debate. These three adjectives tend to be…
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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (2025)
STORYLINE: As an ancient threat endangers both Vikings and dragons alike on the isle of Berk, the friendship between Hiccup, an inventive Viking, and Toothless, a Night Fury dragon, becomes the key to both species forging a new future together. (IMDb) I grew up in the VHS era of classic Disbey animation. I…
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THE LIFE OF CHUCK (2025)
STORYLINE: A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King’s novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz. (IMDb) When watching movies based on the works of Stephen King I expect to be watching a horror movie. The 1980 adaption of The Shining remains my favorite adaptation from…
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