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My Dead Friend Zoe

My Dead Friend Zoe is a film that explores themes of grief, humor, and PTSD through its main character, Merit (Sonequa Martin-Green), an Afghanistan war veteran. The story presents Merit as interacting with the ghost of her deceased military comrade, Zoe (Natalie Morales). This ghost figure serves as a companion and source of dialogue, contributing…

Godzilla Minue One

Godzilla Minus One Godzilla Minus One is definitely not a Hollywood movie; it’s a bit too hoaky for Hollywood. This is a Japanese film set in Japan at the end of WW2. The film has a fair-to-good Godzilla destroying cities and throwing ships and trains, which one expects. But then there is a melodramatic story…

The Great Lillian Hall

Jessica Lange portrays a much-loved theater actress in the film “The Great Lillian Hall.” Lillian Hall begins to show signs of dementia during rehearsals of the Chekhov play in which she stars. As Lillian Hall accepts this next phase in life, she reflects upon her life and begins to regret some of it. Ongoing with…

Two Movies & Two Series

The Holdovers:  A Movie A superb Paul Giamatti vehicle. Paul Giamatti is a tedious, sourpuss Classics teacher, Paul Hunham, at a boarding school in New England. This movie, along with Sideways in 2004, will be remembered as classic Paul Giamatti films.   Da’Vine Joy Randolph is the kitchen manager, Mary. The holdover student is Angus…

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Quiz Lady

THE QUIZ LADY Writing a review of Quiz Lady I realize I’m competing with Google’s AI Bard (which I like the best right now), Bing Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.? Those “AI beings,” do write movie reviews well and quickly. However, they lack substance. AI’s have no depth; no concern with minor characters, none of the human…

Flamin’ Hot

FLAMIN’ HOT  Did you ever eat Flamin’ Hot Cheetos? I haven’t and this film doesn’t make me want to run out and buy Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. But, like Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, this film is a good 99 minute snack – a worthy snack. Flamin’ Hot stays positive and upbeat even through the darkest times-and the…

Three Out of Four Good Movies

I Used to Be Famous Vinnie D. struggled to write a solo album for twenty years after his stint in a popular boy band. He wanders aimlessly with his keyboard – through the diverse Peckham neighborhood in southeast London – trying to complete a song. By chance, Stevie, a neurodiverse drummer, escapes the control of…

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Prey

PREY     For the Prey Frank Movie Review, click on the Strong Women Movies link below: Strong Women Movies   Amber Midthunder  

Interceptor

INTERCEPTOR     For the Interceptor Frank Movie Review, click on the Strong Women Movies link below: Strong Women Movies   Elsa Pataky      

Strong Women Movies

PREY & INTERCEPTOR Prey and Interceptor are new 2022 action movies with entirely different content but identical in a couple of ways. In both films, a single strong woman saves the world, and the men are all terrible or mostly dead. PREY Prey is the newest and the fifth movie in the science fiction Predator…

Father of the Bride

FATHER OF THE BRIDE Hard to compete with the 1991 Father of the Bride movie with Steve Martin and Diane Keaton as the parents and Martin Short as the hard-to-understand French Wedding Planner, Franck Eggelhoffer, who sells a $1,200 wedding “ceke.”  The 1991 Father of the Bride is silly, funny, and politically incorrect in portraying…

Hustle

HUSTLE Hustle is a basketball drama that is enjoyable to watch even if you don’t know the names of the NBA players in the film, that is, if you are like me. There are sixty past and present players and owners listed in the credits as HIMSELF or HERSELF, so if you are a sports…

Ambulance

AMBULANCE The recent Marvel Superhero films (Dr. Strange in the… and Moon Knight) have become too complicated (or maybe too nonsensical), too long, tiring, and boring by the film’s end. Therefore, it is good to go to the theater and watch a straightforward and bloody cop versus crooks chase film that is, unfortunately, still too…

As They Made Us

AS THEY MADE US I chuckled at a few scenes early in the film, mainly at Candice Bergen’s scornful attitude toward everything and everyone. Later, I felt a tad bad for laughing after learning about the physical and mental abuse her daughter Abigail suffered her whole life because of her mother’s relentless criticism and her…

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Our Great National Parks

OUR GREAT NATIONAL PARKS I stopped watching nature shows years ago because after showing the wonders of nature, the show would always conclude with a sad reminder that whatever wonder you just saw is being lost due to how you live your life. Our Great National Parks is a Netflix series narrated by Barack Obama….

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