Dirty cop stumbles on more dirt than he bargained for in the French crime movie worry about Netflix, directorial debut, Regis Blondeau. As it turns out, hiding a corpse in his mother’s grave isn’t even the first thing Thomas (Frank Gastampide) You should worry about… Insomnia: stream it or skip it? essence: Thomas Blaine (Frank Gastampide) is a corrupt police lieutenant in a French coastal town. Together with his partner Mark (Michael Abiteboul), Thomas supplement his cop’s meager salary with kickbacks from criminals who run drug shipments through the port…
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at beans, Now flocking to Hulu, a young Mohawk girl named Tekehentahkhwa (aka “The Bean”) is forever changed after living through the events of the 1990 Oka Crisis in Kanesatake. Based on the real-life experiences of writer and director Tracy Deere, the film highlights the realities of the 77-day land conflict that left two dead and changed the way First Nations and the Canadian government (and many ordinary citizens) interacted for life. beans: stream it or skip it? essence: Tekehentahkhwa (Kiawentiio), a 12-year-old girl nicknamed “The Bean,” has big dreams.…
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Italian romance teen horror do not kill me (Is mi uccidere) — now on Netflix — borrows heavily from an American formula: based on a series of novels, the supernatural, the female protagonist and plenty of Next Face, but since it’s European, The Next Face is more R-rated than Bella and Edward. (And hey, guess what, he’s also bloody as heck!) Director Andrea De Sica teams up once again with Alice Pagani, star of his TV series Child, for a movie that shows a clear desire for the first chapter…
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Many of us can live out the rest of our lives happily ever after the release of Netflix Invasion of the Rapids: Mission to Mars, a special part of the animated series in which little aliens talk like nonsense rubber bunnies and engage in endless cartoonish violence. They are indestructible squeaking toys that are never silent and constantly hitting each other. And now they are going to Mars! Whether these loathsome creations deserve such lengthy treatment is questionable at best – but they will inspire some laughter, or make us…
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The masses’ demands of cute dog movies are fairly basic. Is there a dog? And is she nice? “Dog” – this nickname can’t be beat! He delivers on these two main pillars. Lulu, a Belgian Malinois who was left in shock because of her experience abroad as a military dog, is wonderful. She has formed a touching bond with a veteran of PTSD, Briggs, played by Channing Tatum. movie review Show duration: 101 minutes. Classification PG-13 (Language, objective items, drug content, and some suggestive material). Otherwise, we got a serviceable…
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Did you say “unknown”? This is a funny title for an action-adventure movie that doesn’t stray an inch from the good track of what came before it. “Indiana Jones,” “National Treasure,” and “The Mummy,” to name a few, are all enthusiasts for this bad friend-seeking movie — and the starring is better, too. I would suggest a different name for the last entry in this type: “Derivative!” movie review Show duration: 116 minutes. Rating PG-13 (Violence/Verb & Language) in theaters. Tom Holland plays Nathan Drake, a Manhattan bartender/pickpocket who lives…
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One of three short films to come out of Netflix’s Emerging Filmmaker initiative, heart shot Co-written and directed by Marielle Woods, whose autobiography includes producing a variety of reality TV series, and exciting work in baby driver And the John Wick: Chapter 2and directed two episodes of Cobra Kai. The last two credits are clear indications of where to go heart shot In the end, it’s a teenage lesbian love story that turns into a tense action thriller, and the shift in tone isn’t quite as unique as you might…
Read More“Tag, tag… Boom!” Review: Broadway’s Strong Teardrop Machine
There are so many tragedies hidden in “Tick, Tick…Boom!” The new soul-stirring musical is on Netflix. The main character is Jonathan Larson, the illustrious young composer of “Rent” who died of an aortic aneurysm early in the morning on the day his famous music was premiered at the New York Theater Workshop in the East Village in 1996. He was only 35, and he did not live Never to see “Rent” take to Broadway and become a worldwide phenomenon. “Tick, Tick,” which Larson wrote as a solo show of himself…
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Netflix movie pass It marks the directorial debut of Rebecca Hall, adapting the 1929 novel by Nella Larsen as a black and white graphic melodrama starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga. The two actresses play a mixed-race woman, one of whom is proudly black, and the other is “trans” or living white. They are old friends who met after many years of separation, and their worlds collide. The film is a personal project of Hall, whose maternal grandfather was a black man who remained white for decades while living in…
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Australian movie 2021 great white (Shudder) Five people are put at risk when their seaplane sinks in shark-infested waters that smell of fresh meat. There is bickering on a life raft and rants about the negative effects of climate change as the group pursues a group of finned demons, but let’s get to what really matters in a movie like this: Who survives and who becomes friends? We join the raids already underway in Hell’s Reef… great white: stream it or skip it? essence: great white It starts with blood…
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