Review – D. Wade: Life Unexpected

Review – D. Wade: Life Unexpected

          Dwayne Wade is one of the greatest basketball players to ever play the game.  Being a major basketball fan, I have followed Wade’s career since he was in college, starting during his legendary run of taking Marquette University on a Cinderella-run to the Final Four in 2003.  But even following Wade’s legendary career and for him being one of the best players to ever step on the hardwood, Wade’s personal…

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Review – Sonic the Hedgehog

Review – Sonic the Hedgehog

      Sonic the Hedgehog was originally supposed to be released in November of 2019.  However, when the teaser trailer for the film dropped the internet went bananas over the look of Sonic (the human teeth are still unnerving).  Paramount Studios then did the unthinkable and listened to the internet and delayed the movie so they could get the look of Sonic right, or as right as the internet wanted it to be.  This…

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Ranking the 2020 Oscars Best Picture Nominees

Ranking the 2020 Oscars Best Picture Nominees

Unlike last year’s crop of Best Picture nominees, I am actually rather pleased with this year’s nominees.  Of the nine nominees, four of the films made my top ten of 2019, seven of the nine nominees were in my top 25 of last year, and there is only one nominee that I genuinely do not like.  With the field being this strong, I would only get mad if the movie I did not like won. …

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2020 Oscars – Who Will Win and Who Should Win

2020 Oscars – Who Will Win and Who Should Win

            It’s Oscar time!  The one night a year where we celebrate everything that is great in cinema!  Regardless of how I feel about the nominees, I love Oscar night and I love everything that goes into the show.  It’s big, glitzy, absurd, but it’s always a great time to watch and see the winners, especially ones that I like.  With that being said, here are my predictions for the…

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The Best of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival

The Best of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival

The 2020 Sundance Film Festival is officially in the books.  I saw 24 movies this festival and overall it was a pretty good year.  There weren’t too many duds this year, but there were definitely a number of great movies from exciting new filmmakers and great performances from some of our best actors and actresses working today.  What stood out the most at this year’s festival was the number of great female performances that were…

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Sundance 2020 Review – Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Sundance 2020 Review – Never Rarely Sometimes Always

          Never Rarely Sometimes Always is a movie that will stick with you long after you see it.  Eliza Hittman’s latest film is a quietly powerful film that beautifully captures friendship, desperation, and determination with painstaking authenticity that you won’t shake. Seventeen-year-old Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) is living a relatively boring life in rural Pennsylvania working as a cashier at the local grocery store with her cousin Skylar (Talia Ryder).  When Autumn finds…

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Sundance 2020 Review – Worth

Sundance 2020 Review – Worth

          Worth was one of my most anticipated movies of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.  Director Sara Colangelo returned to the festival following 2018’s The Kindergarten Teacher to tell the true story of Ken Feinberg (played by Michael Keaton), an attorney who battles against cynicism, bureaucracy and politics to help the victims of 9/11.  This is a powerful, emotional, masterfully acted film and surely to be one of the best movies out…

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Sundance 2020 Review – Scare Me

Sundance 2020 Review – Scare Me

          Scare Me is one of the most inventive Midnight movies I have seen during my years at Sundance.  A wildly original and incredibly entertaining film filled with meta humor, thrills, and three terrific performances. Fred (Josh Ruben) is a struggling writer who is hiding out in a cabin in the middle of the woods to find inspiration.  Fanny (Aya Cash) is a cocky, successful horror writer.  The two spend the night…

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Sundance 2020 Review – Zola

Sundance 2020 Review – Zola

          Zola plays like the younger sister of Spring Breakers.  It is a gorgeously shot, wildly inventive Floridian nightmare with excellent performances.  It is a movie that grabs you from minute one and even though it does slow down a bit at some times, it’s a truly hypnotic experience. Based on a legendary, 148-tweet storm from a stripper named Zola (Taylour Paige) who went on a trip to Florida with another stripper named…

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Sundance 2020 Review – The Mole Agent

Sundance 2020 Review – The Mole Agent

        The Mole Agent is a real life spy movie with a twist.  This documentary looks at Sergio, and no, Sergio isn’t some debonair young-buck who is continuously fighting evil henchmen, he’s an 83-year-old who barely knows how to work a cellphone.  So how did he become a spy?  He was hired by Chilean police to infiltrate a retirement home where there is suspicion of abuse and negligence.  But what Sergio discovers when…

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