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Documentaries are often made with good intentions, sometimes to spotlight the life of a beloved figure, reveal previously unknown details about an historical event, or expose the dark sides of governments and corporations. Of course there are a myriad of ...
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There’s a sort of genre of movies that fit the 'Let’s show great food and also toss in some emotional family stuff' mold that pop up every year. Some are simple, enjoyable pleasures like Chef, others are pretentious slogs like ...
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As I’m sure everyone is aware, Storm Boy is a classic Australian novel from 1966 by Colin Thiele that was also made into a beloved Australian classic in 1976. What’s that? Oh, you have no idea what I’m talking about? ...
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A lot of times during awards season there is one particular 'surprise' of someone who’s been delivering great work for years but is now 'due'. This last year was both Richard E. Grant and Olivia Colman, although only Olivia won ...
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Who remembers Emilio Estevez? The Mighty Ducks, right? And that’s really it. I guess you can count The Breakfast Club but that barely matters to me. A decent actor, but you kind of just forgot about him. Who guessed he ...
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In 1983, Stephen King produced the disturbing horror novel Pet Sematary which warned that messing around with an Indian burial ground was not such a good idea (see also the movie Poltergeist). In 1989, Paramount Pictures produced a movie based ...
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It looks like the folks overseeing the DC Extended Universe have finally gotten their act together and realized that people actually go to the Marvel movies because they're bright and colorful, and audiences generally have fun watching them (well, perhaps ...
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Wow, this was a pretty intense and timely episode of The Good Fight where the actions carried out by some of the main characters -- or carried out on their behalf -- may lead to some serious consequences. In one ...
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We are racing to the finish line for this season of Star Trek: Discovery and it's been a good one, hasn't it? I like how there really has been a throughline with the storytelling, even when it seemed that the ...
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Six sorts of faff-tastic all around Grey-Sloan Memorial this week. A strong balance of nonsense and humor to help even out the ugly-cry severity of last week's episode, though there are still some deep and troubling things happening. Though probably ...
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In 1934, Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow traveled through the central United States with their gang robbing and killing people. Lee Simmons, Texas Department of Corrections chief convinced Governor Ferguson to hire former Ranger Frank Hamer to track ...
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This week's episode of Doom Patrol was almost a 'bottle episode', one of those budget-saving episodes that take place almost entirely in one location. It didn't quite get to that point but it did little to move the main 'find ...
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