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Movie Review – Gladiator II (2024)

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Gladiator II, 2024. Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Connie Nielsen, Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger, Derek Jacobi, May Calamawy, Lior Raz, Peter Mensah, Matt Lucas, Alexander Karim, Tim McInnerny, Lee Charles, Alfie Tempest, Riana Duce, Chi Lewis-Parry, Hadrian Howard, Rory McCann, Alec Utgoff, Yuval Gonen, Amira Ghazalla, Chris Hallaways, Tom […]

Movie Review – Out of My Mind (2024)

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Out of My Mind, 2024. Directed by Amber Sealey. Starring Phoebe-Rae Taylor, Jennifer Aniston, Rosemarie DeWitt, Luke Kirby, Judith Light, Emily Mitchell, Michael Chernus, Courtney Taylor, Catherine McNally, Kate Moyer, Maria Nash, Jeff Roop, Sharron Matthews, Kim Huffman, Ian Ho, Gabriela Francis, Gavin MacIver-Wright, Maya Lee O’Connor, Nicholas Fry, Miley Haik, Lauren Plech, Nylan Parthipan, […]

Movie Review – Blitz (2024)

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Blitz, 2024. Written and Directed by Steve McQueen. Starring Elliott Heffernan, Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson, Benjamin Clémentine, Kathy Burke, Paul Weller, Stephen Graham, Leigh Gill, Mica Ricketts, CJ Beckford, Alex Jennings, Joshua McGuire, Hayley Squires, Erin Kellyman, Sally Messham, Josef Altin, Sandra Huggett, Thea Achillea, Grahame Fox, David Kirkbride, Tommy Daley, Thomas Aitch, Charlie Hodson-Prior, […]

Movie Review – Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. (2024)

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Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin., 2024. Written and Directed by Todd Komarnicki. Starring Jonas Dassler, Phileas Heyblom, August Diehl, Moritz Bleibtreu, Nadine Heidenreich, Flula Borg, Lisa Hofer, Luise Landau, William Robinson, James Flynn, Greg Kolpakchi, Simon Licht, Mark Wingett, Evan Hart, Vincent Franklin, Patrick Mölleken, Felix von Bredow, John Akanmu, Tim Hudson, Caroline Berry, Marc Bessant, […]

Movie Review – Joy (2024)

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Joy, 2024. Directed by Ben Taylor. Starring Thomasin McKenzie, Bill Nighy, James Norton, Charlie Murphy, Rish Shah, Cecily Cleeve, Eoin Duffy, Mariam Haque, Abbiegail Mills, Olivia Sellers, Joanna Scanlan, Tanya Moodie, Ella Bruccoleri, Douggie McMeekin, Miles Jupp, Louisa Harland, and Toby Williams. SYNOPSIS: 3 trailblazers: a young nurse, a visionary scientist, and an innovative surgeon […]

Movie Review – Emilia Pérez (2024)

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Emilia Pérez, 2024. Written and Directed by Jacques Audiard. Starring Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, Edgar Ramírez, Mark Ivanir, Eduardo Aladro, Emiliano Hasan, Lucas Varoclier, Daniel Velasco-Acosta, James Gerard, and Sébastien Fruit. SYNOPSIS: In Mexico, a lawyer receives an unexpected offer to help a feared cartel boss retire from his business […]

Movie Review – Magpie (2024)

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Magpie, 2024. Directed by Sam Yates. Starring Daisy Ridley, Matilda Lutz, Shazad Latif, Alistair Petrie, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Niall Wright, and Cherrelle Skeete. SYNOPSIS: A couple find their lives turned upside-down when their daughter is cast alongside a controversial major star. There are horny guys, and then there is Shazad Latif’s Ben of director Sam Yates’s […]

Movie Review – Heretic (2024)

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Heretic, 2024. Written and Directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. Starring Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East, and Topher Grace. SYNOPSIS: Two young religious women are drawn into a game of cat-and-mouse in the house of a strange man. With Heretic, writers/directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods have taken holy horror, which is usually […]

Movie Review – The Mistress (2023)

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The Mistress, 2023. Written and Directed by Greg Pritkin. Starring John Magaro, Chasten Harmon, Aylya Marzolf, Kat Cunning, Eddie Alfano, James Carpinello, Jake Sidney Cohen, Tina D’Marco, Alexandra Grey, and Paul Schackman. SYNOPSIS: Newlyweds move into their dream home where they discover a collection of 100-year-old letters from a young woman who committed suicide after […]

60th Chicago International Film Festival Review – Armand

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Armand, 2024. Written and Directed by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel. Starring Renate Reinsve, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Endre Hellestveit, Thea Lambrechts Vaulen, Øystein Røger, Vera Veljović-Jovanović, Loke Nikolaisen, Assad Siddique, and Patrice Demonière. SYNOPSIS: Armand, a 6-year-old boy, is accused of crossing boundaries against his best friend at elementary school. While no one knows what actually happened […]