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Movie Review: “The Sunlit Night”
Frances (Jenny Slate) is an artist, and her world just came unraveled. Her latest art work was dissed by a panel of judges, she just broke up with her boyfriend, her sister announced her engagement, and her parents announced their separation. Frances needs to get away! Luckily, she found work for the summer, painting a…
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Movie Review: “True Spirit”
Jessica Watson (Teagan Croft) grew up on the coast of Australia, loves the water, loves sailing, and has a lifelong dream of being the youngest person ever to sail non-stop, solo, around the world! At 16, in October 2009, Jessica started the journey that would take about 200 days. If she survives! This movie chronicles…
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Movie Review: “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”
After his latest death, Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) is made to realize that, hmmmmm, he is down to one last life, and that it may be time to preserve that life…. By retiring! Ending up in Mama Luna’s (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) house with a zillion other cats, Puss decides to take Goldilocks’s (Florence Pugh)…
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Movie Review: “Finch”
10 years ago, an immense solar flare hit Earth and made the atmosphere “swiss cheese”. 150 degree heat and massive UV radiation is now the norm. No crops survived and only a very few living beings are still alive. Luckily, Finch (Tom Hanks) was at work (in St. Louis) when the flare hit, and only…
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Movie Review: “Strange World”
The Clade family, in particular, Jaeger (Dennis Quaid) and his son Searcher (Jake Gyllenhaal), are famous in the land of Avalonia as great explorers. Avalonia is surrounded by impenetrable mountains, and the people of Avalonia think that there is a better world beyond those mountains. But no one has been able to reach the other…
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Movie Review: “Slumberland”
11 year old Nemo (Marlow Barkley) lives with her father, Peter (Kyle Chandler), in a lighthouse. Nemo is home schooled by her dad (who believes schools are prisons) and knows everything there is to know about the lighthouse (except what it is really used for). Nemo falls asleep every night to a story told by…
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Movie Review: “Lightyear”
Space Rangers Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans) and Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) wake up from stasis to land their spacecraft on a planet far far from home. Trying to get off that planet, the spaceship crashes, stranding Buzz and Alisha and the hundreds of sleeping scientists who now must all work together to fix the spaceship…
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Movie Review: “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”
Since he unlocked the multiverse in Spider-Man, Doctor Strange has been having a strange dream. In this dream, he and some unknown young woman are trying to reach a book, but they cannot beat the monster protecting that book, and…. Strange dies. Then he wakes up!! Whew…..it was just a dream. Or was it? One…
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Movie Review: “Burn Your Maps”
10 months ago, after just 6 months and 2 days of life, Lily died. Now, Alise (Vera Farmiga) and her husband Connor (Marton Csokas) are on the verge of divorce while 8 year old Wes (Jacob Tremblay) and high school graduate, Becca (Taylor Geare), are having their own problems. Wes thinks he is a Mongolian…