All posts tagged "Drama"
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Jim Batts | March 7, 2025
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL – Review
This weekend sees the release of an acclaimed family drama that’s a compelling exploration of another country’s culture....
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Jim Batts | February 28, 2025
LAST BREATH (2025) – Review
So, did you have that one friend, or perhaps a family member, that drones endlessly about their ‘soul-sucking”...
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Mark Glass | February 18, 2025
100 YARDS – Review
For many of us, the first thought the title 100 YARDS evokes is of a football field. But...
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Cate Marquis | February 17, 2025
LOREN & ROSE – Review
The elegant, fascinating Jacqueline Bisset stars in LOREN & ROSE, as an aging star interviewing with a young...
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Jim Batts | January 17, 2025
HARD TRUTHS (2025) – Review
Although the big family holiday celebrations are nearly a month in the past, there’s always a need for...
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Cate Marquis | January 17, 2025
NICKEL BOYS – Review
Artist-turned-director RaMell Ross’ beautiful, innovative, and moving adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel NICKEL BOYS is an...
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Jim Batts | January 16, 2025
THE ROOM NEXT DOOR (2025) – Review
This weekend sees the wider release of a film that would probably be referred to as “Oscar bait”...
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Jim Batts | January 8, 2025
THE LAST SHOWGIRL – Review
This weekend’s new film release builds on an interesting trend from 2024. Though it’s not something embraced by...
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Jim Batts | December 24, 2024
THE FIRE INSIDE – Review
Well, it seems as though we’ve arrived at another end-of-the-year inspirational true-life sports story award contender. Last year...
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Jim Batts | December 24, 2024
BABYGIRL (2024) – Review
All ready to indulge in a holiday tradition, at least for the last couple of decades? The movie...
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Jim Batts | December 12, 2024
THE END (2024) – Review
As people gather from different corners of the globe to reunite with their families during this holiday season,...
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Jim Batts | November 21, 2024
BLITZ (2024) – Review
With a big holiday mere days away. this week’s new film reflects on families that can’t be together,...
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Cate Marquis | November 1, 2024
ANORA – Review
Cannes’ Palme d’Or winner ANORA follows a Brooklyn exotic dancer who marries the son of a Russian oligarch...
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Cate Marquis | October 11, 2024
THE APPRENTICE – Review
It is not the old TV show but Donald Trump’s “apprenticeship” under his attorney and mentor Roy Cohn,...
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Cate Marquis | September 13, 2024
SPEAK NO EVIL – Review
In the chilling thriller/horror drama SPEAK NO EVIL, James McAvoy delivers another striking performance as character who shifts...
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Cate Marquis | August 23, 2024
BETWEEN THE TEMPLES – Review
Jason Schwartzman plays a cantor who has lost his singing voice, his wife and maybe even hope, whose...
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Jim Batts | August 22, 2024
THE SUPREMES AT EARL’S ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT – Review
Okay all you music biopic fans, just keep reading the title past the first two words. This should...
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Cate Marquis | August 16, 2024
SING SING – Review
SING SING is not about vocalizing but a powerful, moving drama about the transformative power of art in...