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Great Expectations (1946)
"Great Expectations" is the story of a poor orphan boy named Pip who discovers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he become a gentleman. So the boy gets an allowance, a free education, and life experiences making for an interesting story which director David [..]
Flow (2024)
"Flow" is an animated film telling the story of a cat caught in a great flood and finding refuge on a small boat with four other animals (golden retriever dog, secretary bird, beaver, lemur), who must cooperate to survive. Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis created a unique and innovative [..]
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
The Best Picture of 2022 is....."Everything Everywhere All at Once." Confusion reigns, on purpose, in the comedy-drama film from directors-screenwriters Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (known as "the Daniels"). They deliberately blend and bend the conventional motion picture boundaries in this story of a [..]
Breakthrough (2019)
"Breakthrough" is a faith-based drama about a 14-year-old boy who fell through the ice on a frozen lake and was underwater for fifteen minutes. After being declared dead, his mother prays for a miracle, with the drama proceeding from there. Roxann Dawson was outstanding [..]
Suburbicon (2017)
"Suburbicon" is a dark comedy about a suburban family in 1959 who face all sorts of troubles like a home invasion, family problems, and racial tension in the neighborhood. Director George Clooney ("The Ides of March" 2011) put together a black comedy which is almost incomprehensible [..]
Den of Thieves (2018)
"Den of Thieves" is a crime drama about a Los Angeles County Sheriff who tries to stop a group of high-powered criminals from robbing the Federal Reserve building in L. A. Director-screenwriter Christian Gudegast, in his big screen debut, does an excellent job of putting [..]
I Think We’re Alone Now (2018)
"I Think We're Alone Now" is the story of two survivors of a worldwide pandemic which has wiped out Earth's population. This absorbing drama was well conceived and constructed by director Reed Morano ("Meadowland" 2015) from an excellent screenplay by Mike Makowsky. Morano [..]
Iron Mask (2019)
"Iron Mask" is a fantasy adventure film about a British cartographer on a mission to map the Russian Far East and China, with numerous adventures, or misadventures, along the way. Russian director Oleg Stepchenko created a terrible movie with a confusing storyline, bad acting, and just plain awful [..]
The Mauritanian (2021)
"The Mauritanian" is a riveting legal drama about a Mauritanian Muslim man held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center for fourteen years without a charge filed against him. Director Kevin MacDonald ("The Last King of Scotland" 2006) organized the film with outstanding production values, sterling performances, and a [..]
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
"Jojo Rabbit" is a comedy-drama film that tells the story of a ten-year-old boy in Nazi Germany in World War II who is active in the Hitler Youth program. When he finds out that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in the attic, he has [..]