Say what you want about Joaquin Phoenix, but the boy can act his buns off. In the new psychological thriller You Were Never Really Here, Phoenix is a former soldier turned FBI agent, no nonsense hitman-on-a-mission who now devotes his time rescuing kidnapped young women from a sex traffickers.
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THOROUGHBREDS is a Dark Dramedy Featuring White Privilege
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With a title like 'Thouroughbreds', I thought I was about to watch a film about horses...which BTW...I adore. What I witnessed instead was a story about mean girls with too much money and white privilege covered in a dark dramedy thriller.
Read MoreGuillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water is a Cinematically Stunning
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My love of movies ranges across many genres. But, I am a plain old sucker for a love story and that is exactly what director Guillermo del Toro is giving us its his latest cinematic masterpiece The Shape of Water.
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Girls Trip had me laughing so hard that I could hardly catch my breath. The last time I laughed like that in a movie theatre was when I watched Bridesmaids. This movie works for one reason and one reason only...Tiffany Haddish. If the character of Dina doesn't work, the energy of the entire film would be off and you could create less about the characters.. Thankfully, Haddish's take on Dina is right on time.
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How many times do we watch an injustice happen to a compete stranger or even a next door neighbor and run a blind eye? Better yet, what if a loved one passes on and has a final wish they are insistent be carried out...would you do it?
Read MorePirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
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Its' been a minutes since we have seen Captain Jack Sparrow or the film franchise that was spawn from a Disneyland ride in 2003. Now, 14 years later, if you love the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise, you won't be disappointed with "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales". Back in his Oscar nominated, unforgettable role of Captain Jack Sparrow, actor Johnny Depp performs this character as though he were a second skin. It's so organically natural for him and the jokes never cease to amuse.
Read MoreI AM HEATH LEDGER
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Described by his Mom as a "wild stallion", this overzealous Australian teen booked his first film "10 Things I Hate About You," shortly upon arrival in Tinseltown. However, it was his big break opposite Mel Gibson in The Patriot that put him on the map and Brokeback Mountain made him an A-list star.
Read MoreGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
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Picking up where “Guardians of the Galaxy”—2014’s highest grossing film of the summer—left off, Peter Quill aka Star-Lord and his gang of eccentric characters patrol and protect the universe, doing mercenary work in the wake of the popularity and fame garnered from saving Xandar. Set to the magnificent backdrop of Mixtape #2 (Parliament Funkadelic's "Flashlight" is one of my favs), doing a seat boogie while rooting for the Guardians to prevail over evil was definitely part of the experience. No one was happier to see a thief, a thug, an assassin and an angry little tree reunited!
Read MoreThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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For decades, scientists had been collecting tissue samples from patients without consent, searching for cells that could live outside the human body. In 1951, Henrietta Lacks entered a hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and everything changed.
Read MoreSmurfs: The Lost Village
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If Beyoncé' lit a match under millennial women with her concept album "Lemonade", Smurfette is the ringleader for the Female Smurf Nation. At least until she stumbles upon the "lost village", which is saturated with female Smurfs. These dolls have a strong sense of self, confidence and identity. For all these reasons and more, Smurfs: The Lost Village will really strike a chord with young girls.
Read MoreBeauty and The Beast
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Love and stories about love never go out of style. These types of stories make us sentimental, long for a lost love or a love that was never to be realized. Disney's Beauty and Beast stays true to form with this latest incarnation of "a tale as old as time"!
Read MoreAn Inconvenient Sequel - Truth to Power
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Al Gore has been instrumental in keeping the conversation front and center, but like any issue that reaps the benefits of government assistance, he has been met with resistance and criticism from likely and unlikely sources. His biggest critic? The 45th President of the United States - Donald J. Trump. Trump has gleefully boasted that global warming is a hoax and at one point demanded that Gore's Nobel Peace Prize be taken away.
Read MoreMarches, Trump, The Blackhouse and HBCU's at the Forefront of Sundance 2017
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Hosted by Jessica Williams, the 2017 awards ceremony was a celebration of independent film, but also a detestation of the new administration of President Donald Trump. With Executive Orders banning citizens from a number of Muslim majority countries from entering the U.S. for the next several months and more, his January 20 inauguration threw a shadow over the festival, coming one day after this year’s Robert Redford-founded shindig kicked off.
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Bright Lights: RIP Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
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As many people have seen in numerous posts over the years, I unequivocably love my mother. She's my sheroe. She taught me that it was never too late in life to accomplish ANYTHING. She is one of the bravest women I know, loves me unconditionally and sometimes behaves as if she doesn't want to ever let me grow up. One day, as we prepared to go out somewhere, she was tugging on my clothes annoying me to no end. Being a smartass I quipped, "You're always going to be my mother aren't you?". She quickly snapped, "Well, what did you expect...of course I am".
Read MoreHidden Figures and Fences Get No BAFTA Love - 2017 BAFTA Nominations→
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BAFTA nominations were announced today and the love toward American artists in general was a little less than stellar. American Cinema has always outstretched our arms embracing artists from other countries...particularly the Brits. How many times have we nominated Dames Helen Mirren, Judi Dench, Emma Thompson or Sir Anthony Hopkins?
Read MoreFENCES
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Recreating their award-winning roles, Davis and Washington are masterful as Rose and Troy. Set in 1950's Pittsburgh, we watch the demise of a family unit for a variety of complex, yet familiar reasons. Troy (Washington) constantly relives his days from the Negro Baseball League with the realization that his life as a sanitation worker are less that what he dreamed for himself and his family.
Read MoreMaya: And Still I Rise→
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Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise gives a rare glimpse to the world of Angelou that has rarely been seen through the eyes of close friends and her only son.
Read MoreMANCHESTER BY THE SEA
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Manchester By The Sea is taking this American Cinema award season by storm...literally. With award-winning performances by Casey Affleck and Lucas Hedges, the audience is taken on the journey of what it feels like to have to go back home when a tragedy strikes.
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I'm getting real tired of history lessons from Hollywood feature films. All I ever heard growing up was about Harriett Tubman, Crispus Attucks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Nat Turner and Rosa Parks.
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