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SHIRLEY (Sundance 2020 Premiere)
The lighting & coloring of the film adds an atmosphere of unpredictability. The second lead Rose (Odessa Young) imbues her character with an off kilter sensuality; and of course Elisabeth Moss is just crazy watchable in anything and everything, remember she was the only saving grace of “The Kitchen”. Despite these favorable things, on the whole, I’m not crazy about SHIRLEY, as it takes too long to build to a dissatisfying ending.
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THE GO-GO’S (Sundance 2020 Premiere)
Director Alison Ellwood handles the interviews, pacing, images, 80s nostalgia deftly, but she doesn’t reinvent the wheel. There’s a standard template for rock-band disintegration and the Go-Go’s story fits within a basic music-doc rulebook, but that makes it no less fun. There’s nothing I love better than a tale of rising beyond one’s wildest dreams, peaking, then taking that terrible tumble, only to learn lessons and find your footing again.
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Oscar Winners – RECAP 2020 92nd Annual Academy Awards
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor POST UPDATE: 2/10/20 – Award season is over and the Oscars have been Awarded – with the history making PARASITE the big winner of the night! Originally this post was for predicting what would be nominated. Then I went back in and updated it as to what I got right and wrong in terms of nominations. And predicted the Oscar winners, adding in a few Academy Awards fun facts. Now, I’ve updated it to show what I got right and indicate the winners of the ones I got wrong. Also, adding some favorite moments of the night and Best & Worst on the Oscar Red…
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ZOLA (Sundance 2020 Premiere)
Basically, ZOLA is a recounting of how Zola (Taylour Paige) (pretty, 20-something black female) meets Stefani (Riley Keough )(pretty 20-something white female), it seems one exotic dancer can always recognize another, and they strike up a friendship, which goes horribly wrong when Stefani invites Zola on a road trip to Tampa to dance. Strippers can make more money traveling to other cities to work the pole, as they’re considered “new talent” to customers tired of the same ol girls. I don’t think any trouble would have come of the trip if the girls were on their own, Unfortunately, they are accompanied by Stefani’s dim-witted boyfriend Derrick (Nicholas Braun ) and…
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Best & Worst Movies of 2019 (Top 10 List)
In total the List includes 50 Films - 40 in order of what I found the most enjoyable and the last 10 of what I found the most objectionable. If the title is highlighted that means it's linked to T&T's #MiniMovieReview for that movie...
