Tag: netflix
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tick, tick…BOOM! (Review)
In the last ten years especially, there has been an influx of stage musicals making it to the big screen, both in remade adaptations and first-time films. It’s a tricky genre to pull off on the big screen due to the highly theatrical nature of a lot of musicals; the energy, dynamics, and aesthetics are…
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020) Review
I’m Thinking of Ending Things is Charlie Kaufman’s highly-anticipated third directorial effort, following 2008’s existential nightmare Synecdoche, New York and 2015’s stop-motion psychology comedy Anomalisa. It follows a woman (Jessie Buckley) and her boyfriend (Jesse Plemons) who take a trip to visit his parents (David Thewlis & Toni Collette). It is based on the novel…
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The Half Of It (2020) Review
Premise: When a well-meaning but inexpressive jock asks her to write a love letter to his crush, straight-A student Ellie Chu ends up discovering a lot about herself, love, and life itself. These nice Netflix originals in the YA genre have been hit and miss with me so far, at least out of the ones…
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Horse Girl (2020): A Brief Review
Now that awards season is behind us and Parasite officially a Best Picture winner, I can get back to doing what I started this blog to do: reviewing movies. My first official review of a 2020 release is for Jeff Baena’s Horse Girl, which premiered at Sundance before finding its home on Netflix. I didn’t…
When The Credits Roll 