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  • The TIFF Report, Vol 2

    The TIFF Report, Vol 2

    His Three Daughters Director: Azazel JacobsCast: Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen, Natasha Lyonne, Jay O. Sanders, Jovan AdepoSynopsis: A tense, captivating, and touching portrait of family dynamics surrounding sisters who converge after their father’s health declines.Thoughts: When I hear the words “film festival,” tight-quartered dramas dealing with fractured family dynamics are often the type of motion

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  • Movie Review ~ The World to Come

    The Facts: Synopsis: Somewhere along the mid-19th century American East Coast frontier, two neighboring couples battle hardship and isolation, witnessed by a splendid yet testing landscape, challenging them both physically and psychologically. Stars: Katherine Waterston, Vanessa Kirby, Casey Affleck, Christopher Abbott Director: Mona Fastvold Rated: R Running Length: 98 minutes TMMM Score: (3/10) Review:  There’s

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  • The Silver Bullet ~ Alien: Covenant

      Synopsis: The crew of the colony ship Covenant discover what they think is an uncharted paradise, but it is actually a dark, dangerous world, whose sole inhabitant is the synthetic David, survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition. Release Date:  May 19, 2017 Thoughts: Anticipation was high back in 2012 when director Ridley Scott’s mysterious

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  • Movie Review ~ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

    The Facts: Synopsis: The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school. Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Jon Voight, Ron Perlman, Carmen Ejogo, Jenn Murray, Faith Wood-Blagrove, Colin Farrell, Zoe Kravitz

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  • The Silver Bullet ~ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

    Synopsis: The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school. Release Date:  November 18, 2016 Thoughts: Now that’s how you make a teaser trailer.  I think in the din of awards season and upcoming superhero movies of 2016, we’ve forgotten

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  • The Silver Bullet ~ Steve Jobs

    Synopsis: Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, the film takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter. Release Date:  October 9, 2015 Thoughts: Less than two years after another biopic of

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  • Movie Review ~ Inherent Vice

    The Facts: Synopsis: In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles detective Larry “Doc” Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend. Stars: Joaquin Phoenix,Reese Witherspoon, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Jena Malone, Owen Wilson, Martin Short, Katherine Waterston, Joanna Newson, Maya Rudolph Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Rated: R Running Length: 148 minutes Trailer Review: Here TMMM Score: (1/10) Review: Looking back at the experience

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  • The Silver Bullet ~ Inherent Vice

    Synopsis: In Los Angeles in 1970, drug-fueled detective Larry “Doc” Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend. Release Date:  January 9, 2015 Thoughts: I didn’t like The Master. There, I said it and I’m not sorry I did. I thought it was bloated and too cuckoo for words. Not that it wasn’t a handsomely

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