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Oscar Nominee Film Review: BLUE MOON
The acting challenge that Ethan Hawke saw in the script for BLUE MOON was something that any actor would not have passed up and with his long-time collaborator, Richard Linklater, set to direct - it was a dream project for him. And it feels like an Actor’s/Director’s dream project and not a fully fleshed out piece of work. Looking more like a filmed stage play, BLUE MOON tells the fictionalized story of one night in the life of lyricist Lorenz Hart - who with his composer par
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4 minutes ago2 min read


Oscar Nominated Film Review - F1: THE MOVIE
Filmed with the cooperation of FI racing, the 4x Oscar Nominated ( including for Best Picture) Brad Pitt film, appropriately entitled F1: THE MOVIE, is a feast for the eyes and ears of racing fans that is visceral and loud and brash in the racing scenes and offers little else in the way of originality, characters and plot. Writer/Director Joseph Kosinski (TOP GUN: MAVERICK) brings the same eye for action to this film that he did for that Tom Cruise sequel and it works well wi
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6 days ago3 min read


Movie Review - 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE
Last summer, Director Danny Boyle and Screenwriter Alex Garland returned to the world that they created in 2002 with 28 DAYS LATER with the 3rd in the “rage viruse” series, 28 YEARS LATER. They hinted that this film was going to be the first in a new trilogy and with 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE, the series has already come out with the middle chapter of the trilogy. Focusing on the most interesting character in the 28 YEARS LATER film, Dr. Kelson (played by Ralph Fiennes
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Jan 232 min read


Director's Series - The Coen Bros. BLOOD SIMPLE (1984)
Back in 1984, a pair of brothers from Minnesota burst into the Cinematic world with an audacious ode to classic 1940’s/’50’s film noir, BLOOD SIMPLE, Directed, Written and Edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. Taking place in a backwater Texas burgh, BLOOD SIMPLE tells the classic film noir tale of sex, revenge, money and murder with the bad guys turning on each other and where no on is really innocent. This debut film works marvelously well thanks to the innate instincts of these 2
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Jan 182 min read
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