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Best & Worst Movies of 2022 (Top 10 List)
Original post 12/29/22 End of the year wrap up, list of Top 10 and Worst 10 Movies of 2022. It's mostly based on my engagement and overall connection with the film/movie and less on what is more directorial/technically well-done. Of course, in some cases it's both, and in other cases, I did place quality over pleasure....
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Concrete Cowboy w/ Ricky Staub, Caleb McLaughlin Interview
Tinsel & Tine #MiniMovieReview CONCRETE COWBOY The film starts in Detroit where Cole (McLaughlin) has gotten in trouble for fighting in school once again. His mother picks him up with his bags packed (trash bags that is) and tells him she's driving him to his father in Philadelphia. Caleb, 15 years-old, has not maintained a relationship with his father Harp (Idris Elba) over the 10 years since his mother up and moved them to Detroit...
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Interview with Actor/Entrepreneur NAKIA DILLARD (Black Lightning, The Wire, House of Cards) And Now The Wonder Years
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor – ORIGINALLY POSTED APRIL 26, 2020 I got a chance to finally interview actor, writer, director, and entrepreneur, Nakia Dillard, a Philly native, who I met so many years ago, I dare not say how many or it will age us both, but he was part of an outreach program called the Rainbow Company which performed original musical productions in Philly schools, run by American Music Theater Festival, directed by the late, great Ricardo Martin, and I was the assistant everything, working behind the scenes to support all cast, crew and productions. Since then Nakia became a successful working actor who’s almost always filming something.…
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BOOK VS MOVIE: The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Official Transcript – Video Interview with Mark L. Levine
11 days after the controversial Chicago 7 trial ended, Levine and friends were able to get the trial transcripts into bookstores. The materials -- edited for brevity, insight and entertainment, became a best seller at the time, but eventually went out of print. In 2020 Aaron Sorkin and Steven Spielberg‘s Dream Works Pictures made the story of the trial into an Academy Award nominated Netflix film. Contemporaneously with the release of the movie, publishing house Simon & Schuster reprinted the edited transcript (originally published by Bantam Books), now called THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7: THE OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT...
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KANDAHAR in Theaters May 26 ,2023
In KANDAHAR, Tom Harris (Gerard Butler), an undercover CIA operative, is stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan.
