Mini Movie Reviews Archives
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The Lovebirds
If you’ve seen and liked 2010’s Date Night (starring Tina Fey and Steve Carell) or the more recent Game Night (starring Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams), or even to some extent Nanjiani’s out-of-control flick from last summer Stuber, then you should get a kick out of The Lovebirds.
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Troop Zero
The movie stars McKenna Grace (GIFTED w/ Chris Evans) she plays Christmas Flint a 10 year-old growing up in 1977 in the small rural town of Wiggly, Georgia. She’s big into outer space and the idea of life on other planets, mainly because it was also a passion of her deceased mother, who Christmas feels is now a part of the stars and the galaxy. But it’s not her tendency to wear a tinfoil hat that makes Christmas Flint an outcast among her peers – she denies it for most of the movie, however, the truth of the matter is the sudden death of her mother has left her with…
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Vintage)
If only the movie stayed in this world, it would remain a charming story, but instead it veers off into a make-believe fantasy involving a despotic, childish, Trump-like King of Bavaria (Gert Fröbe) , who hates and captures children, and takes whatever he fancies, in this case, the Caractacus refurbished race car now named Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. He also captures Grandpa Potts assuming that he’s the inventor. So it’s up to Caractacus, Truly and the children to go and save him, and in turn free the people of this oppressed village.
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Blow The Man Down
The film starts off moody and atmospheric with fisherman singing sad songs in a small town off the coast of Maine. Priscilla (Sophie Lowe) and Mary Beth (Morgan Saylor) have just buried their mother Mary Margaret Connolly and it seems all the town has come for her repast; including Mary Margaret’s life long girlfriends, all now in their 70’s – Susie Gallagher (June Squibb), Doreen Burke (Marceline Hugot), and Gail Maguire (Annette O’Toole). We find out later one important old friend is absent, Enid Nora Devlin (Margo Martindale) and the why is the crux of the story.
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BURDEN
Unlike last year's "Best of Enemies" starring Taraji P. Henson & Sam Rockwell, where the movie is told from the POV of a racist white male, having a come to Jesus change of heart; only the trailers make on that Henson's character, a black woman fighting for social justice in her community, will be the center. "Burden" starring Garret Hedlund lets us know right from the trailer and the name, that Mike Burden, KKK member, is the protagonist of the piece, and it's his story of abuse, PTSD, hatred and a surprisingly touching love story that's the focus of the movie.
