It’s all too clear that Almost Friends skims over crucial coming-of-age topics such as parental neglect, teenage pregnancy, and emotional distress. In his third feature film (following Don McKay and Life of a King) Goldberger presents this coming-of-age story as a comic drama and hosts a range of emotions from gentle to downright frustrating. Parts […]
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Bill Shannon is a multi-discipline artist who goes by the names “Crutch” and “Crutch Master.” He is a skilled dancer, street performer, choreographer, skateboarder, filmmaker, and much more. Shannon’s skill set and experience would be astonishing to any person, but what truly catches people’s attention is his means of mobility crutches with round bottoms. In
Fifteen-year-old Saber works with an Iranian crew at a run-down scrap metal workshop owned by Mr. Sabahi. Alongside Afghans, Saber also constructs wheelbarrows, buckets, and basins for the construction sector, although the Afghans only make half of what the locals do and don’t have any proper working documentation. Additionally, in the event of any police
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Some people say that sarcasm is the dullest form of humor. It is not good for a movie with a title like Multiple Sarcasms. Expecting to fill it with witty scenes does not promise good results. Ideally, Gabe has a supportive wife, a sweet daughter, a nice best friend, and a good job. On the
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October 6, 2017, marked the release of a follow-up to the 1982 science fiction cult classic movie, Blade Runner 2049. Denis Villeneuve took the reins as director and managed to defy all odds with not only a great sequel but a nationwide astounding stand-alone feature film as well. This was after the aforementioned movie had
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RUN! These are the only words Billie Kope seems to hear as she runs into the woods of an island she wakes up on. The strangers who are asking her to run, she is not familiar with. Even the men in the paramilitary outfits who are chasing her are a mystery to her. Heck, she
THE WEDDING TRIP takes us into a peculiar plotline that differs from Lisa and Murray’s marriage story. Groomsman Jack (Bart Blachnio) sets off on the road trip driving to the wedding. He has to pick up his bridesmaid Samantha (Sydney Bakich). After meeting her, he remembers her from a bad date in the past and
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Promises! Promises! is particularly acclaimed, not because it’s a great movie, but rather as one of the first mainstream films where a leading woman strips on screen. In this case, it was Jayne Mansfield, widely regarded as a poor man’s Marilyn Monroe, who gets the honor and the camera’s attention. And, you’d be hard-pressed, pun
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Throwing everything you know out the window is how I would sum up Bel-Air. It is a dramatized version of the beloved 1990s sitcom, made by independent filmmaker Morgan Cooper in 2019. In Cooper’s version, Will Smith runs away from a tough life in West Philadelphia and into the arms of a wealthy family in
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Jon Hall had acted in a minor role in a Republic B western with John Wayne, but this was his first starring role in an A-budget Western following his debut in John Ford’s THE HURRICANE. He is good at handling stories set in the open, and he would make many more pictures in this genre
