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Philadelphia Film Critics Circle 2020 Winners
During the film industry's Awards Season every city's Film Critics Association nominates and votes on Best of films categories similar to the Oscars. Studios, PR Firms , Producers etc. actually care, they ply us with screeners and swag leading up to the vote, care about what date we hold our vote, and many followed our live announcements on Twitter. So it's kinda fun being a big deal 😁
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Bad Wigs, False Teeth: FOUR GOOD DAYS
I watched this the morning of the Oscars where Glenn Close was up for Best Actress for her role in "Hillbilly Elegy", a movie I was never able to bring myself to watch, and which ironically also earned Close a Razzie. After watching "Four Good Days" I wondered if she's just kinda living on her past glory? It's an fine performance, but I don't feel Close brings anything special to this mother's anguish. There's a dozen other actresses more age appropriate who could have done just as well or better...
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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Wish I had written a #MiniMovieReview right after seeing @MaRaineyFilm but I had to just keep screening Award Season contending films, no time to write. So in deference, I've done a roundup Congratulating everyone involved with the film...
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SPECIALish Jessica Watkins
I got a chance to screen Jessica Watkins' comedic feature length documentary ‘SPECIALish’ showing her walk across the United States over the course of 8 months. Punctuated by her standup comedy about her experience at stops in clubs along her way. First off, I admire Jessica for all the walking and camping she did do, because I know for me, I'd be lucky to...
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Opera, rock, and film collide – SOLDIER SONGS
The latest production SOLDIER SONGS premiered in January and runs til May 31, 2021. It stars and is directed by Johnathan McCullough, produced by James Darrah, who teamed up with FreshFly Films in Philadelphia and shot the piece on location at the Birmingham Hill Preserve, site of the American Revolution’s Battle of Brandywine (1777).
