COLUMN: New Year's Resolutions for the Movie Industry for 2019

(Image by Muharrem Aner for Getty via The Daily Beast) Plenty of regular everyday people make New Year's Resolutions, but I think bigger entities, namely movie makers and movie moguls, need to make them too.  Annually, including this eighth edition, have fun taking the...

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20 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE: The best of the rest of 1998

(Image: lifeatthemovies.com) In an annual series, Every Movie Has a Lesson is going to look back twenty years to revisit, relearn, and reexamine a year of cinema history to share favorites, lists, and experiences from the films of that year. Alright, I’ve spelled out my absolute...

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10 Awesome Movies & Docs from 2018 You May Have Missed

These underseen gems deserve your attention. Source from Screen Realm http://bit.ly/2VecI...

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20 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE: The 10 Best of 1998

(Base image: lifeatthemovies.com) In an annual series, Every Movie Has a Lesson is going to look back twenty years to revisit, relearn, and reexamine a year of cinema history to share favorites, lists, and experiences from the films of that year. Since I completed this exercise...

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Ten of the Best Movies of 2018

The guy from 'The Office' made people shush, a purple alien snapped his fingers, and Joaquin Phoenix swung a hammer. Source from Screen Realm http://bit.ly/2VjXC...

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Black Mirror Debuts Its Interactive Film On Netflix

Charlie Brooker’s anthology series exploring human nature and technology in the modern age has added a new element to its roster with Bandersnatch – the first interactive episode which allows viewers to choose their own adventure. Led by Dunkirk’s Fionn Whitehead, the synopsis reads on Netflix as, “In 1984, a young programmer begins to question […] The...

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Tom Hanks’ Fred Rogers Movie has a Title

Sony Pictures has announced the official title of Marielle Heller’s upcoming biopic based on the life of Fred Rogers. The film, now titled “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” will star Tom Hanks as the host of “Mister Rogers Neighborhood” and will be released in October 2019. The film tells the true story of Rogers […] The post Tom Hanks’ Fred Rogers...

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5 of the Best Female Directed Films of 2018

Jess Ennis takes us through five of the best films directed by females that hit our screens in 2018. The post 5 of the Best Female Directed Films of 2018 appeared first on Movie Marker. from Movie Marker http://bit.ly/2ERMm...

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London Film Critics Awards Nominations

“Nothing is pushing forward currently as a runaway favourite on the way to the Oscars, even though we’ve given The Favourite 10 nominations,” one critic told me at the London Film Critics Awards nominations luncheon held on 18th December at the Mayfair hotel. However, another guest, an actress was more forthright ‘watch Roma sweep the […] The post...

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DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: They Shall Not Grow Old

(Image: traileraddict.com) THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD— 4 STARS One of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definitions for the term “monument” reads “a lasting evidence, reminder, or example of someone or something notable or great.” The key adjective of that statement...

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GUEST CRITIC #29: Leon: The Professional

(Image: imdb.com) As busy I get from time to time, I find that I can't see every movie under the sun, leaving my friends and colleagues to fill in the blanks for me.  As poetically as I think I wax about movies on this website as a wannabe critic, there are other experts...

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MEDIA APPEARANCE: David Ehrlich's IndieWire Critics Survey on December 24, 2018

Notable and notorious IndieWire film critic David Ehrlich recently put out a social media call for film critic peers to join a weekly survey to discuss movie topics, answer questions, and highlight their work.  Representing Every Movie Has a Lesson, I, along with...

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MEDIA APPEARANCE: David Ehrlich's IndieWire Critics Survey on December 17, 2018

Notable and notorious IndieWire film critic David Ehrlich recently put out a social media call for film critic peers to join a weekly survey to discuss movie topics, answer questions, and highlight their work.  Representing Every Movie Has a Lesson, I, along with...

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MOVIE REVIEW: If Beale Street Could Talk

(Image by Tatum Magnus for Annapurna via EPK.tv) IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK— 5 STARS Unequivocally, Barry Jenkins is a filmmaker who loves his subjects. It shows in the way he writes and in the way he shoots. His words and instructions evoke and elevate performance. His...

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‘Us’ Trailer Unveils Jordan Peele’s Scary-Looking ‘Get Out’ Follow-Up

Whoa! Source from Screen Realm http://bit.ly/2LGq5...

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Lizzie ★★★

Released: 21st December 2018 Directed By: Craig William Macneill Starring: Chloe Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Fiona Shaw Reviewed By: Marion Donnellier On the morning of August 4th, 1892, Andrew Borden and his wife, Abby, were brutally murdered in their Massachusetts home. Although the case remains unsolved, for decades everyone was convinced that Elisabeth...

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Mary Poppins Returns ★★★★

Released: 21st December 2018 Directed By: Rob Marshall Starring: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw Reviewed By: Jess Ennis There are certain moments in cinema history that you think (or hope) might never be touched again – and, for many, Mary Poppins was one of them. So there was no one who envied Rob Marshall’s […] The post Mary Poppins...

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‘Avengers: Endgame’ Will Be The Longest Marvel Film Yet

Courtesy of co-director Joe Russo, we’ve got a bit more detail on how long Avengers: Endgame will be. “There’s a high probability that this movie will clock in at around three hours,” co-director Joe Russo told Empire. “It’s a big movie with a lot of story.” When Russo said in early November that Avengers 4 […] The post ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Will Be...

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‘Roma’: Watch a Fantastic 30-Minute Q&A with Filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón

The master director of 'Children of Men' and 'Gravity' was also writer, cinematographer and co-editor on this fantastic film. Source from Screen Realm http://bit.ly/2QLxX...

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MOVIE REVIEW: Vice

(Image courtesy of Annapurna Pictures via EPK.tv) EVERY MOVIE HAS A LESSON’S 750TH REVIEW VICE— 3 STARS This may be skipping to the end, but the fly fishing symbolism of the end credits of Adam McKay’s Vice grandly expresses the entire deceptive and subversive tone...

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‘Doom Patrol’ Teaser Trailer Introduces the New DC Superhero Series

Matt Bomer, Brendan Fraser and Timothy Dalton are among the stars here... Source from Screen Realm http://bit.ly/2T5EK...

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