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Movies Extravaganza 13: CHEVALIER, POLITE SOCIETY, AIR: COURTING A LEGEND, RENFIELD, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES, A THOUSAND AND ONE
Originally posted April 4, 2023 #MiniMovieReviews Extravaganza 13 - fun, engaging, personal, bite size reviews of Chevalier, Polite Society, AIR Courting a Legend, Reinfield, Dungeons & Dragons, A Thousand and One ...
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See Chris Rock’s TOP FIVE (Rock in Philly Video)
Rock’s “Top Five” displays the finest strengths we’ve seen yet from a filmmaker who is clearly becoming more immersed in and thoughtful about his craft. There is a slow growing group of comic voices aspiring to put more soul and feeling into comedies, and Rock joins Louis CK, Lena Dunham and Judd Apatow in that category with this film… READ MORE – Kevin Jagernauth, The Playlist Indiewire.com This isn’t the first praise I’ve read when it comes to Chris Rock’s thoughtful, semi-autobiographical, comedy Top Five (click for trailer) about a successful “Hammy” comedian coming to a crossroads in his life, looking to take a serious left turn with a film…
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David O. Russell Brings Us Great Characters & Hair: AMERICAN HUSTLE
The built in buzz for American Hustle is of course the fact that writer/director David O. Russell, still basking in the commercial and award winning success of both The Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook is once again working with 4 actors from those movies – Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. Which makes me wonder, did this brainwash me prior to my screening or did I really love the movie? American Hustle is very loosely based on the Abscam FBI sting operation of the 1970s that ensnared seven members of Congress for taking bribes. During this time, the FBI really did hire a convicted con artist…