Tag: Drama

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Time for a Reel LUTHER: THE FALLEN SUN review

About the film (courtesy of Netflix): A gruesome serial killer is terrorizing London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther (Idris Elba) sits behind bars. Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther decides to break out of prison to finish the job by any means necessary. It’s hard …

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Time for a Reel MISSING review

About the film (courtesy of Screen Gems): When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s …

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Time for a Reel BABYLON review

About the film (courtesy of Paramount Pictures): A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood. Maybe not quite the best, but Babylon certainly qualifies as “saving my wildest write-up for last in 2022.” As we …

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Time for a Reel GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY review

About the film (courtesy of Netflix): Benoit Blanc returns to peel back the layers in a new Rian Johnson whodunit. This fresh adventure finds the intrepid detective at a lavish private estate on a Greek island, but how and why he comes to be there is only the first of many puzzles. Blanc soon meets …

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Time for a Reel AMSTERDAM review

About the film (courtesy of 20th Century Studios): An original crime epic about three close friends who find themselves at the center of one of the most shocking secret plots in American history. David O. Russell assembles a stellar cast in this 1930s-set comedy drama that uncovers and sheds light upon one of America’s more …

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Time for a Reel DON’T WORRY DARLING review

About the film (courtesy of Warner Bros.): Alice (Pugh) and Jack (Styles) are lucky to be living in Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. Life is perfect, with every resident’s needs met by the company. All they ask in return is unquestioning commitment …

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Time for a Reel THE WOMAN KING review

About the film (courtesy of TriStar Pictures): The remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen. Inspired by true events, The Woman King follows the emotionally epic journey of General Nanisca …

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Time for a Reel BEAST review

About the film (courtesy of Universal Pictures): Idris Elba stars in a pulse-pounding new thriller about a father and his two teenage daughters who find themselves hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving that the savannah has but one apex predator. Wait, what is the name of this film, Beast, or was it …

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Time for a Reel WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING review

About the film (courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainment): This is the story of Kya, an abandoned girl who raised herself to adulthood in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from her community. Drawn to two young men from town, …

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Time for a Reel TOP GUN: MAVERICK review

About the film (courtesy of Paramount Pictures): After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment …