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Movie Review: The Holdovers

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Plot: Set in December 1970, acclaimed director Alexander Payne’s latest feature depicts the life of Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti), a strict and hidebound classics teacher at the prestigious New England boarding school, Barton… Continue reading

Movie Review: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Second Opinion)

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Plot: Set sixty-four years before the events of the first Hunger Games film, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (TBOSAS) chronicles the early life of Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth). The last surviving son… Continue reading

Movie Review: ‘Napoleon’

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Plot: Acclaimed director Ridley Scott’s latest chronicles the exploits of Napoleon Bonaparte (Joaquin Phoenix). Beginning with his time as a young army officer during the French Revolution and continuing on through his rise… Continue reading

Movie Review: ‘The Killer’

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Plot: Based on the graphic novel by Alexis Nolent, director David Fincher’s latest delves audiences into the world of the eponymous Killer (Michael Fassbender). When a job in Paris goes disastrously awry, the… Continue reading

Movie Review: ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

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Plot: Based on the 2017 David Grann book of the same name, iconic director Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon recounts the tragedy of the Osage Nation of Oklahoma in the 1920s.… Continue reading

TV Review: ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’

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Plot: A modern re-imagining of the beloved Edgar Allan Poe short story, The Fall of the House of Usher details the downfall of the infamous and wealthy Usher family. Creator Mike Flanagan frames… Continue reading

Movie Review: ‘No One Will Save You’ (Second Opinion)

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Plot: Brynn (Kaitlyn Dever) lives alone as a seamstress in a small town. Still mourning the loss of her mother from four years ago, Brynn feels increasingly isolated. Brynn spends her time writing… Continue reading

Movie Review: ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’

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Plot: An adaptation of the “Captain’s Log” chapter from Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel “Dracula,” The Last Voyage of the Demeter follows the doomed exploits of the crew of the self-same ship. Led by… Continue reading

Ranking the Indiana Jones Movies

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With the summer movie season quickly drawing to a close, I’ve become a little wistful. It’s been a Hell of a year for Harrison Ford. Not only has he starred (although shone like… Continue reading

Movie Review: ‘Oppenheimer’ (Second Opinion)

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Plot: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, director Christopher Nolan’s latest magnum opus examines the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), the head of the… Continue reading