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Official synopsis:  A couple, Annette and Ben (Daisy Ridley and Shazad Latif) find their lives turned upside-down when their daughter (Hiba Ahmed) is cast alongside a controversial major star. (Matilda Lutz) I find it amusing that in a film where a couple is having issues and actively working against each other would have parts of the actual film doing the same thing. On one hand, you have the actors giving very committed, nuanced performances. Especially Ridley. She's stoic yet overwhelmed and you want to scream at Ben through the screen to just HELP her. (Putting a pillow over his head and ignoring the crying baby in the middle of the night? Unforgiveable.) Then on the other hand, you have the composer who wrote a score that is trying its hardest to make this into a corny Lifetime thriller. It reminded me a lot of May December , which is also a good film with a terrible score. It just doesn't fit. It's so over the top and ridiculous.  Magpie might be a hard sell at first...

Official synopsis:  Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation. Director Pedro Almodóvar's first feature length film in English came and went without a lot of fanfare. Until I saw it as an option to watch on my recent flight, I had completely forgotten it had been released already.  Not only was this a surprise reminder, but it completely blew me away. I love this film, and I think I told every single one of my coworkers that they NEED to watch it on their flights home. This story is about death. About fearing it and accepting it, but it's also about friendship and how strong those bonds can be, even when you spent time apart and it was just so easy for me to fall in love with Ingrid and Martha. While there are some awkward moments between them, most of their time together is just so achin...

Official synopsis : After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, an unconventional team of antiheroes must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts. Thunderbolts is the Marvel film I've been anticipating the most post Endgame. (While I enjoyed Black Panther 2 , part of me still dreaded having to face that film without Chadwick Boseman) I had high hopes, and I was not disappointed. If anything, I was surprised at just what kind of film this ended up being. You see, I expected this to lean goofy. More Guardians than Avengers, and while there were some great laughs, mostly thanks to David Harbour's hilarious Red Guardian, I was not prepared for how this film would tackle mental illness. We all know Yelena (Florence Pugh) is suffering after Natasha's death, but we haven't really seen her address her feelings, and once she and her rag tag team meet Bob (Lewis Pullman) they are all faced with some pretty emotio...

If you've been reading here for a while, you probably already know how highly I regard Black Mirror. It's one of my favorite shows ever, it showed up a LOT during my Thursday Movie Picks run and a few years ago I ranked all the Netflix shows I had seen, and it was the easy #1. It's not always a perfect show. Anthologies rarely are, but even when I dislike an episode, I'm always going to watch whatever comes next. With the 7th season currently available to stream, here are my quick thoughts on each episode in the order I watched them U.S.S Callister - Into Infinity - I started out with the direct sequel to season 4's best episode The U.S.S Callister. I thought this was a solid start, it was definitely missing Michaela Coel big time, but Cristin Milioti is such a star. I think it took the logical next step for that story. Common People - This episode was absolute nightmare fuel and that's honestly Black Mirror when its at its best. When they started explaining the...

Official synopsis:  Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) applies his brilliant mind and illegal methods to reconstruct the unsolved puzzle of a Treasury chief's murder. 2016's The Accountant was a film that grew on me. When I saw it in theaters for the first time, it was just ~fine~ But when I watched it a second time on blu ray, something clicked. I realized just how much I liked these characters and I've re-watched the film several times since. So when the sequel finally came to fruition, it was a no brainer that I would watch. I'm glad to be back into Christian's world. This time around, he doesn't have Dana (Anna Kendrick) to play off of, but his brother Braxton. (Jon Bernthal) They haven't seen each other since the events of the last film played out, so there's a bit of animosity there, mostly on Braxton's part. I wasn't prepared for how amusing this film would be. Bernthal is kind of hysterical. He talks about Christian's "condition...

Daredevil coming to Disney Plus was always a big deal for myself, and a lot of other Marvel fans. It was the best of the Netflix MCU shows (in my opinion) and finding out that it would be brought into MCU proper was a great feeling. So how did season 1 do overall? Let's look at the good, the bad, and what we can look forward to. The Good * Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio continue to put in great work as Matt Murdoch and Wilson Fisk. There's a really great scene in the later episodes where both characters are coming to terms with their alter-egos separately, and the scene cuts back and forth between them.  * The fight scenes continue to be top notch. * It was nice to get an episode that focused solely on Matt Murdoch being a lawyer. * It still felt very adult. I know there was a lot of worry of it "losing its edge" moving over to Disney Plus, but there was plenty of brutality and a few F bombs. See? What were you worrying about? * The Punisher telling cops who we...