Tag: Biography

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Time for a Reel THE FRONT RUNNER review

The words politics and scandals go together like peanut butter and jelly. And like PB & J, if you’re not careful, things can get messy in an instant. U.S. Senator Gary Hart (Hugh Jackman) seemingly had it all. He was a man on the rise, and after failing to get a presidential nomination for the …

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Time for a Reel BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY review

More often than not, stories of musicians pale in comparison to their real-life counterparts. The same cannot be said with Bohemian Rhapsody, and its lead singer, Freddie Mercury in particular. Everything he did in his lifetime was grand and this new biopic directed by Bryan Singer aims to not sell that idea short. There have …

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Time for a Reel FIRST MAN review

Damien Chazelle dazzled audiences with a pair of musical masterpieces in Whiplash (2014) and La La Land (2016). He was on fire and fans were eager to hear what musical melancholy he’d be putting out next. With his previous works hitting hard emotionally while still making us tap our feet in joy and celebration, Chazelle …

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Time for a Reel OPERATION FINALE review

Throughout the history of time where man has walked the earth, there have been plenty of unspeakable acts committed against one another that defies rational explanation. Ripping a small portion from the history books is the biographical drama of the manhunt for the architect of the Jewish people’s darkest era in history. Operation Finale goes …

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Time for a Reel BLACKkKLANSMAN review

Over a directorial career which has lasted over 30 years, Spike Lee has adhered to his own way of doing things. Often it works out well, but on some occasions his projects leads to divisiveness among those that have seen the movies. Through his creativity, controversy often follows. Not being one to beat around the …

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Time for a Reel DON’T WORRY, HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT review

With movies such as Drugstore Cowboy (1989), My Own Private Idaho (1991), Good Will Hunting (1997), Finding Forrester (2000), and Milk (2008) under his belt, there’s no denying the talent that director Gus Van Sant has shown over the decades. He also has an uncanny ability to get the most out of his actors. Many …

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Time for a Reel WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? review

For more than three decades, Fred Rogers captured the minds and hearts of Americans from the age of 3 to 93. The most charming man in a Cardigan captivated his audiences in a simple childlike manner at first glance, but once you listened, I mean really listened, people began to realize that this was a …

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Time for a Reel THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS review

The Man Who Invented Christmas

Did you know that the famed novella, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, is actually a shortened version of its original title? A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas was the original title published in December of 1843. That’s more of a synopsis than a title. And in a similar fashion, at …

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Time for a Reel ONLY THE BRAVE review

Only the Brave review

The Prescott Fire Department was founded in 1885, in fact it is the oldest fire department in the entire state of Arizona. In 2008, the men of this particular crew achieved a rare distinction. The department was granted the distinguished honor of doing something no one before them had done, they became the first Type …

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Time for a Reel AMERICAN MADE review

American Made review

It would seem that drugs jumped to the front of every mainstream publication and outlet throughout the 1980s. Illicit drugs have been around, well since always but they reached new highs (forgive the pun) during this timespan. Television shows, movies, novels; they were all sensationalizing the addictive trend. Art was truly imitating life and there …