My Old Ass Movie Review
Elliott (Maisy Stella of the TV show Nashville) is a girl in transition. She is finding her way in the world and many things remain undecided. Her sexuality is fluid as is her comfort to the life laid out in front of her. She dreams of leaving her hometown and bristles under the direction and limited opportunities afforded by its small population.
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Into this mix of conflicting emotions comes a night like no other. While tripping on mushrooms with her two best gal ...
2024 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival – Gloria! Movie Review
Teresa (Galatéa Bellugi) is a young servant girl at a musical school for orphans. She is mute but seems to love music, she also appears to be suffering from some sort of trauma. When she discovers a brand new pianoforte in a storeroom that was gifted to the school, she sits down and begins to tickle the ivories.
Teresa has real musical skills but they come out in a most peculiar way (for the times). When four other students hear her playing in the middle of the night they join forces to ...
2024 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival – Trust Movie Review
The basic story revolves around the life of a teacher named Pietro, played by Elio Germano. He appears to be a great teacher with a unique teaching method and is loved by all his students. That is the initial impression you are given, yet the addition of more information will tilt your perception of both his character and morality.
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This information comes via a large number of scenes that suggest much but confirm little. This technique at first is somewhat off-pu...
2024 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival – Comandante Movie Review
Salvatore Todaro (Pierfrancesco Favino - World War Z and Angels & Demons) was a real-life World War II veteran, who even though he was saddled with a severe back injury continued to serve in the Italian army. He was given command of the submarine Comandante Cappellini and asked to join the Battle of the Atlantic.
That battle, which was the longest continuous military campaign of the War was a horrendous campaign and led to an unimaginable number of casualties both civilian and ...
Wicked the Musical Theatre Review
Setting the timelines of Wicked before and after the events in the film was a masterstroke and opens up the storylines substantially. We discover that Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West played by Sheridan Adams didn’t start out so wicked and that Glinda the Good (Courtney Monsma) wasn’t always so good. Even the Great Oz is given more stick as being the fraud he is.
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This Australian production of Wicked is immense. Eugene Lee’s set design is spectacular and ...
The Wild Robot Movie Review
Her software allows her to learn and eventually understand and communicate with the native fauna. After accidentally destroying a family's bird nest she becomes the sole protector of Brightbill (Kit Connor) and also befriends an outcast fox named Fink (Pedro Pascal). She remains an outcast herself and this creates a bond between the three.
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It speaks to the quality of the writing that these computer-generated characters are imbued with such emotional resonance that ...
Dendy Powerhouse Outdoor Cinema – Runt Movie Review with Nina the Cavoodle
Those kind folks at Dendy and Think Tank pulled out all the stops and there were so many of my fellow doggies that turned out on the night, it was pawsome. I might have even fallen in love again but then a true lady doesn’t speak openly of such things in public. Everybody was so nice and all my new four-legged friends smelled great.
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Even with all the activities, treats and cuddles, the best part of the night were the moving images up on that big screen. They ...
Hinckley – I Shot The President Movie Review
John Warnock Hinckley Jr. was born to a wealthy family in Ardmore, Oklahoma and enjoyed that privilege to live a pleasant and incident-free childhood but under that facade of normalcy lay a fragile psyche. That he lived in a country that didn’t prioritise mental health and made guns as easy to buy as the local paper set him on a course of impending trouble.
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Hinckley wandered through life until obsession took over his thought process. The 1976 Martin Scorsese ...
A Million Days Movie Review
Anderson (Simon Merrells) is an astronaut on the eve of a space mission. His mind is clouded by an obsession with finding out the circumstances behind the tragic loss of a female comrade who was lost out in space during a mission. He is hard-wired to think only in facts but the night before launch will have an indelible effect on that state of mind.
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He lives in relative isolation with his partner Sam (Kemi-Bo Jacobs). She is an expert on AI and helped design a ...
Blink Twice Movie Review
Frida (Naomi Ackie) and her gal pal Jess (Alia Shawkat) are two young ladies trying to make ends meet. When they get a job hostessing at a fundraising gala they come in contact with Slater King (Channing Tatum). The tech billionaire is fighting the cancel culture after a transgression that is never fully explained and the fundraiser is part of his road back. After their paths cross, King invites them to his island for a weekend of excess.
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Once on the island, things seem too ...
