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BRIDGERTON REVERIE
I binged the series this past weekend and I’m still having a weird sense of PTSD from it. Don’t get me wrong, I delighted in the frothy, regency, costumed, romantic fun of it all. And reveled in everything Simon (Regé-Jean Page) I can just picture the casting call sheet: Looking for a gorgeous, black, rakish, imperious, charmer with a great butt. Boy! did they find their man 😍
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One Night in Miami w/Q&A
ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI is officially my choice for Best Film of 2020! Here you have four men of iconic status, all hanging out together on a historic night (February 25, 1964) the night Clay took the title from Sonny Liston; and yet this is not common knowledge? I hate to say it, but say Joe Namath, Rocky Marciano, Bob Dillon and Henry Kissinger all hung out one night, there wouldn’t be a person alive or dead that wouldn’t know everything about it.
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Pieces Of A Woman Q&A
Synopsis: Martha (Vanessa Kirby) and Sean (Shia LaBeouf) are a Boston couple on the verge of parenthood whose lives change irrevocably when a home birth ends in unimaginable tragedy. Thus begins a yearlong odyssey for Martha, who must navigate her grief while working through fractious relationships with Sean and her domineering mother (Ellen Burstyn)
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WONDER WOMAN 1984
At any rate, getting a last-minute surprise Wonder Woman 1984 screener link on the 22nd did make it fun, so my sister and I ordered our Indian food and set back to see what writer/director Patty Jenkins (co-writer Geoff Johns) decided Diana Prince/Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) had been up to for the last several decades, and it seems she’s been keeping a low profile. Stopping random crimes and preventing accidents whenever possible, but the world doesn’t know her as Wonder Woman, the way the world accepted the existence of Superman...
