Mini Movie Reviews Archives
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Lionsgate’s: UNLOCKED
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Every so often I am sent a screener code by a studio and asked if I’d be interested in reviewing a film that will have a limited release. I love this, of course, because it makes me feel like a real insider. This time it was Lionsgate who emailed me about a Spy thriller called UNLOCKED. It stars Noomi Rapace (Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series) John Malkovich, Michael Douglas, Orlando Bloom and Toni Collette (who looks just like Annie Lennox in this movie). At first I didn’t understand the title until I watched an interview with Rapace, who plays Alice…
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Movie Blog Post: BRIGSBY BEAR, STEP, PATTI CAKE$
Not only am I equally impressed by each of these three films, each one had a Q&A in Philly! See Mini Reviews and Videos...
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Movie Blog Post: An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
While the original "Inconvenient" was largely a dramatized re-creation of Gore's traveling scientific slideshow, the new film is a classic cinéma vérité production, with the filmmakers, Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk shadowing Gore for months - at sites that show the dimensions of the challenges
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Movie Blog Post: GIRLS TRIP
Tinsel & Tine’s Look at GIRLS TRIP By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor I first saw the trailer for Girls Trip back in like February or March and thought it looked pretty good and in addition to the known cast of Jada Pinkett Smith, Regina Hall and Queen Latifah, I saw it had the team of super producer Will Packer (THINK LIKE A MAN, Ride Along, ALMOST CHRISTMAS, STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON and many more) and the talents of director Malcolm D. Lee (The Best Man and THE BEST MAN HOLIDAY) but still I worried that the movie would fall flat, that it wouldn’t have cross over appeal both to other races…
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Movie Blog Post: THE BEGUILED
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