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Movie Review – Like a Boss (2020)

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Like a Boss. 2020 Directed by Miguel Arteta Starring Tiffany Haddish, Rose Byrne, Salma Hayek, Ari Graynor, Jimmy O. Yang, Karan Soni, Billy Porter, Jessica St. Clair, Melissa Saint-Amand, Natasha Rothwell, Jacob Latimore, Brittany Guess, Caroline Arapoglou, Lana Young, Jennifer Coolidge, Aaron Dominguez, and Colby Lopez (Seth Rollins) Synopsis: Two friends with very different ideals […]

Movie Review – Waiting for Anya (2020)

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Waiting for Anya, 2020. Directed by Ben Cookson. Starring Anjelica Huston, Jean Reno, Thomas Kretschmann, Sadie Frost, Noah Schnapp, Elsa Zylberstein, Urs Rechn, Lukas Sauer, Tómas Lemarquis, Nicholas Rowe, Gilles Marini. Joséphine de La Baume, William Abadie, Jean-François Balmer, and Frederick Schmidt. SYNOPSIS: During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the […]

Movie Review – First Love (2019)

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First Love. 2019 Directed by Takashi Miike Starring Becky, Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Masaaki Uchino, Shota Sometani, Takehiro Miura, Sakurako Konishi, Jun Murakami, and Sansei Shiomi SYNOPSIS:: A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo. One of the upsides of directing […]

Movie Review – Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)

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Sonic the Hedgehog, 2020. Directed by Jeff Fowler. Starring Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, Jim Carrey, Tika Sumpter, Lee Majdoub, Frank C. Turner, Adam Pally, Natasha Rothwell, and Neal McDonough. SYNOPSIS: After discovering a small, blue, fast hedgehog, a small-town police officer must help it defeat an evil genius who wants to do experiments on it. […]

Movie Review – VFW (2020)

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VFW, 2020. Directed by Joe Begos. Starring Stephen Lang, Martin Kove, William Sadler, David Patrick Kelly, Dora Madison, Sierra McCormick, George Wendt, Fred Williamson, Tom Williamson, and Travis Hammer. SYNOPSIS: A group of war veterans must defend their local VFW post and an innocent teen against a deranged drug dealer and his relentless army of […]

Movie Review – Olympic Dreams (2020)

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Olympic Dreams, 2020 Directed by Jeremy Teicher. Starring Alexi Pappas and Nick Kroll. SYNOPSIS: In the Olympic Athlete Village, a young cross-country skier bonds with a volunteer doctor after her competition ends. You would be forgiven if you rent or go see Olympic Dreams and initially mistake it for a 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics cross […]

Movie Review – Buffaloed (2020)

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Buffaloed, 2020. Directed by Tanya Wexler. Starring Zoey Deutch, Judy Greer, Jermaine Fowler, Noah Reid, Lusia Strus, Lorrie Odom, Raymond Ablack, Nicholas Carella, Paulyne Wei, James M. Connor, Brian Sacca, Jayne Eastwood, Kate Moyer, Alex Harrouch, Bill Lake, Barbara Gordon, Carolyn Scott, Jai Courtney. SYNOPSIS: Set in the underworld of debt-collecting and follows the homegrown […]

Movie Review – Downhill (2020)

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Downhill, 2020. Directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. Starring Will Ferrell, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Miranda Otto, Zach Woods, Kristofer Hivju, Julian Grey, Ammon Jacob Ford, Giulio Berruti, and Zoe Chao. SYNOPSIS: Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to […]

Movie Review – Underwater (2020)

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Underwater, 2020. Directed by William Eubank. Starring Kristen Stewart, T. J. Miller, Vincent Cassel, John Gallagher Jr., Jessica Henwick, Mamoudou Athie, and Gunner Wright. SYNOPSIS: A crew of aquatic researchers work to get to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory. But the crew has more than the ocean seabed to fear. Underwater certainly […]

Movie Review – Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)

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Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn. 2020 Directed by Cathy Yan Starring Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Ewan McGregor, Rosie Perez, Ella Jay Basco, Chris Messina, Ali Wong, Matthew Willig, and Dana Lee SYNOPSIS: After splitting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroes Black Canary, Huntress and Renee […]