Film & Movie Archives
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COLOSSAL
Only he figured out a smarter way to not only make the storyline more interesting than a traditional Kaiju, he also was able to keep the budget low, as we mainly experience the Monster through media - cellphones, Youtube, TV, so you don’t need to see it stomping around with a crazy amount of CGI to make an impact.
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Leeway Foundation Screening: MAYA ANGELOU AND STILL I RISE
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor The Leeway Foundation presented a film event at the Community College of Philadelphia which featured the documentary MAYA ANGELOU AND STILL I RISE by filmmakers Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack. Featuring interviews with Dr. Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, Common, President Bill Clinton and rightful President Hillary Clinton. What a full and inspiring life Dr. Maya Angelou lead as a singer, dancer, activist, poet, writer and director. The doc originally aired on PBS a month or so ago, but I’m so glad I got to see it on a bigger screen in the company of others who also felt the power and love this woman gave…
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SONG TO SONG
I enjoy movies set inside the music scene like: Almost Famous, Crazy Heart, Walk the Line, Inside Llewyn Davis, La La Land, even The Runaways, with Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart playing Cherie Currie and Joan Jett, it's pretty bad, but still has something to recommend it. These movies depict some aspect or time period of the music industry.
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Movie Blog Post: THE SENSE OF AN ENDING
The film is best in the flashbacks scenes of their youth. I like young Tony and his schoolmates, the academic atmosphere, and wish there were more scenes with Emily Mortimer; the movie would have been much richer if mainly set in the past and then bring us to present day near the end to see where the fallout left the characters 50 years later...
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Movie Blog Post: THE SHACK
... but it felt like the screening was just for me, and more importantly, it felt like God, called Papa in the book/movie, came to meet me where "I live"...
