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Movie Review – Ophelia
Director: Claire McCarthy Starring: Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts, Clive Owen, George MacKay Year: 2018 Ophelia starts out well enough, for a from-another-point-of-view film, which I can’t imagine is a genre that’s easy to work in. And Daisy Ridley is a good enough lead character at first as well, which couldn’t be taken for granted, since
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Book Review – Rose Madder
Author: Stephen King Year: 1995 I’m gonna have to do something sacrilegious here and disagree with my favorite author; Steven King thinks that he was trying too hard with Rose Madder and with Insomnia, that they are stiff novels, and most readers agree with him, but I can’t. At least not fully, because I do
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Movie Review – Birds of Prey
Director: Cathy Yan Starring: Margot Robbie, Ewan McGregor, Jurnee Smollett-Bell Year: 2020 Coming in stronger than expectations dictated shouldn’t have been that hard for Harley Quinn, Birds of Prey, The Fantabulous Whatnot of Emancipation of One Joker Lady, whatever they finally decide to stick with calling it; DC has, in many ways, failed to deliver
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Sports – 2020 NFL Free Agency
With the 2019 season behind us, the Super Bowl over, and the reality of zero football setting in, it’s never too early to look ahead to next year. The 2020 season kicks off with the HOF game in Canton in August and the NFL Opener in September, but before that there are two major events
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Movie Review – Harriet
Director: Kasi Lemmons Starring: Cynthia Erivo, Joe Alwyn, Leslie Odom Jr. Year: 2019 Cynthia Erivo was nominated for Best Actress for this role, and she also wrote/performed an original song for the film that was nominated as well, so obviously those two parts of the picture are worth noticing, recognizing, and applauding. As is the
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Movie Review – Brittany Runs a Marathon
Director: Paul Downs Colaizzo Starring: Jillian Bell, Utharsh Ambudkar Year: 2019 It’s nice to write a movie about your friend, but it’s a whole other feat to convince a major studio that you should also direct said movie, especially when your only other credit in the biz is helming one episode of the MacGyver reboot.
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