MOVIE REVIEW: Surviving Confession

(Image: imdb.com) SURVIVING CONFESSION—3 STARS I don’t know how many Catholics are walking through this movie classroom, but if your impression of the holy sacrament of reconciliation looks and sounds like Steven Colbert’s “Midnight Confessions” bit on The Late Show, you are...

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MEDIA APPEARANCE: David Ehrlich's IndieWire Critics Survey on July 29, 2019

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: Astronaut

(Photo courtesy of Quiver Distribution) ASTRONAUT— 3 STARS Through the niches and comely library aisles of off-label modest independent cinema, talent can elevate material. Sometimes the material isn’t the best at this level. A high class performer can come in and buoyantly...

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MOVIE REVIEW: Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood

(Image courtesy of Sony Pictures via EPK.tv) ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD— 3 STARS One of the noun variations of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s definition for “fairy tale” reads “a story in which improbable events lead to a happy ending.” Another explains “a made-up story...

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MEDIA APPEARANCE: David Ehrlich's IndieWire Critics Survey on July 22, 2019

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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COLUMN: 5 Upcoming Epic Movies To Watch This Summer

(Image: Country Living Magazine) 5 Upcoming Epic Movies To Watch This Summer It is again that time of the year when you are trying to take a break from the heat and look for a way to cool off. While some people enjoy drinking cocktails at the pool or escaping in the mountains,...

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MOVIE REVIEW: Into the Ashes

(Image courtesy of RLJE Films) INTO THE ASHES— 3 STARS Restraint is not a common artistic or narrative characteristic in revenge films nowadays. We live in an explicit world where the louder and more outlandish outpourings of violence are what grab attention and audiences....

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GUEST EDITORIAL: Best Movies of All-Time Every Law Student Should Watch

(Image: The Ace Black Blog) Best Movies of All-Time Every Law Student Should Watch Out of several niches such as thrill, drama, romance, and sci-fi, movies related to the law have always remained mine (and I am sure for many others) all-time-favorite niche. For many screenwriters,...

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MOVIE REVIEW: The Farewell

(Image: Premiere France) Official selection and Centerpiece of the 7th Chicago Critics Film Festival THE FAREWELL— 5 STARS We all have to fake a goodbye in our lives to someone terminally ill. We all don’t want to, but we will. We’ll say “I love you” and “see you soon” to...

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MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on the "You'll Probably Agree" podcast talking "The Lion King" and Disney's future

(Image: Facebook.com) Mike Crowley of the steaming-ahead “You’ll Probably Agree” brand welcomed yours truly back on the podcast microphone again, this time to talk about The Lion King. Neither one of our childhoods were married to the 1994 original, but we recognize its greatness...

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GUEST EDITORIAL: The Relevance of "Fight Club"

(Image: Film on Paper) The Relevance of ‘Fight Club’ in Present-Day Western Society A Story of Consumerism, Perfectionism, and Toxic Masculinity By Jacob Tucker If you want to be a member of society, you need to follow some rules. You’re expected to earn money, to keep fit,...

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GUEST CRITIC #30: Crawl

(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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MOVIE REVIEW: The Lion King

(Image courtesy of Walt Disney via WDS Media File) THE LION KING— 3 STARS The opening line of my review for Aladdin less than two months ago read “It is becoming increasingly tedious to both critique and enjoy these Disney “re-imaginings.” That hasn’t changed. Go back...

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