Tag: movies
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CAUGHT STEALING (2025)
STORYLINE: Hank Thompson, once a hotshot high school baseball prospect, turned unlucky alcoholic, going-nowhere bartender mistakenly gets caught up in a bloody treasure hunt through New York City. It turns out that the cat Hank’s neighbor left in his care is sitting on a secret. Hidden at the bottom of its cage is a key…
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THE ROSES (2025)
STORYLINE: Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Colman) and Theo (Cumberbatch): successful careers, great kids, an enviable sex life. But underneath the façade of the perfect family is a tinderbox of competition and resentments that’s ignited when Theo’s professional dreams come crashing down. (IMDb) I went to see 2018’s A Star is Born…
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EDEN (2025)
STORYLINE: From Academy Award®-winning director Ron Howard, Eden unravels the shocking true story of a group of disillusioned outsiders (Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Daniel Brühl, and Sydney Sweeney) who abandon modern society in search of a new beginning. Settling on a remote, uninhabited island, their utopian dream quickly unravels as they discover…
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HOLLYWOOD GRIT (2025)
STORYLINE: When his daughter vanishes from a Hollywood jazz club, a detective must battle mobsters, starlets, and his own demons to unearth the sinister truth lurking behind LA’s neon lights. (IMDb) In the 1940’s through the 1960’s the film noir genre hit its peak. It’s hard to argue when films such as Double Indemnity…
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IT’S NEVER OVER, JEFF BUCKLEY (2025 – Documentary)
STORYLINE: Never-before-seen footage, exclusive voice messages, and accounts from Jeff Buckley’s inner circle paint a captivating portrait of the gifted musician who died tragically in 1997, having only released one album. (IMDb) There is an expectation with documentaries about musicians and music that thst viewer will become familiar with the subjects music. With films…
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HIGHEST 2 LOWEST (2025)
STORYLINE:When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), widely known as having the “best ears in the business”, is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Brothers Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the 5th in their long working relationship for a reinterpretation of the great filmmaker Akira…
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2025 SUMMER MOVIE SEASON RECAP
My personal preference of long nights and short days is slowly happening, day by day. Like this yearly tradition the 2025 summer movie season’s credits are beginning to roll. In a time dedicated to big sequels and remakes three original films stood out of the pack for me: the documentary Secret Mall…
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MY MOTHER’S WEDDING
STORYLINE:Three sisters return to their home for the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother. But the mother and daughters are forced to revisit the past and confront the future, with help from a colorful group of unexpected wedding guests. (IMDb) Films about family gatherings are films I go into with the most hesitation. It…
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WEAPONS (2025)
STORYLINE: When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance. (IMDb) Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Conversation (1074), Tinker Tailror Soldier Spy (2011), Gone Girl (2014), Knives Out…
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FREAKIER FRIDAY (2025)
STORYLINE: 22 years after Tess and Anna endured an identity crisis, Anna now has a daughter and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might strike twice. (IMDb) There is a lot of material out in the cinematic universe surrounding…
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