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[Double Feature] The Shallows

2/27/2017

David: Blake Lively hasn’t seemed to be in that many things lately. I pulled up her IMDB just to check, and indeed, I was correct. After Gossip Girl ended, she took a bit of a hiatus until...

Shannon: A new take on the Jaws movie, we have The Shallows. This film stars Blake Lively as a young woman, Nancy, who has found a private beach on which her mother once surfed. Because of...

[Review] Before I Fall

2/27/2017

by Shannon

Before I Fall is based on a novel of the same name and stars Zoey Deutch (Why Him? and Vampire Academy) as Samantha Kingston, a senior in high school with three best friends. Her and her friends are the popular kids, the ones that bully others and aren't very nice to people they don't like or don't think fit in with the others. On Cupid Day, the four girls head to high school like any normal day. Being Cupid Day, roses are handed out. To be mean, they send a rose to a girl...

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[Double Feature] Nocturnal Animals

2/23/2017

David: Do you dream, Dear Readers? I rarely do anymore (when I’m unconscious anyway), with the rare ones brought on by periods of stress and junk food. That’s one of the reasons...

Shannon: Starring Amy Adams as Susan, Nocturnal Animals tells us the story of a woman who is unhappy in her marriage and receives a copy of the book that her ex-husband wrote. Because...

[Double Feature] Moonlight

2/23/2017

David: This critical darling has been on my radar since I started hearing about how good it was when it was on the festival circuit. The thing was I deliberately excluded myself from...

Shannon: Stuck in a not so good part of Miami, Chiron tries to live his life. The film starts off when he is a little boy. He is being picked on by the other children and a nice man, Juan...

[Review] A United Kingdom

2/22/2017

by David

There are quite a few dramas out there regarding forbidden love. It’s a concept that goes back farther than Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, though that is probably the most famous story of such. It’s a story that is repeated so often that we seek out real people in history that have had these experiences, because art often imitates life, and the reverse is true as well – life imitates art. So is it really any surprise that the film opens with a “True Story” moniker, a...

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[Double Feature] Hacksaw Ridge

2/22/2017

David: It’s hard to find war films that stay true to the story while staying visceral and exciting. That’s because of two things – one, war is something that is bloody, dirty, disgusting, and causes...

Shannon: We have another movie based on true events for the second to last Oscar nominee this month. Hacksaw Ridge is about a young man from Virginia who enlists in the Army even...

[Double Feature] Arrival

2/21/2017

David: Ah, science fiction. I go a bit and don’t watch you, and then when I come back to you, you open me with open arms. You remember how a few posts ago I was discussing how silence...

Shannon: Starring Amy Adams as Louise Banks and Jeremy Renner as Ian Donnelly, the two work together to understand and communicate with an alien species that arrives on Earth randomly...

[Double Feature] Elle

2/20/2017

David: There are a lot of movies out there whose subject matter I don’t entirely agree with. I try my hardest to separate my thoughts on subject matter in regards to film, instead focusing...

Shannon: Elle is about a woman who is sexually assaulted in her home. Having a troubled past - her father was a mass murderer - she refuses to get the police involved in the attack. Though she...

[Double Feature] La La Land

2/17/2017

David: Once upon a time, Dear Readers, I aspired to be many things – what child hasn’t, after all? I wasn’t the one that said I wanted to be an astronaut (that’s for the Elon Musk’s of the world)...

Shannon: La La Land shows us the lives of two different individuals trying to make their way in Hollywood. Mia (Emma Stone) is a barista who is trying to make it on the big screen. She wants nothing...

[Double Feature] Loving

2/16/2017

David: There are a lot of films out there with minimal dialogue. For every film of Tarantino’s, where the characters speak and speak and speak, there’s a movie like The Revenant which focuses...

Shannon: Richard Loving (Joel Edgerton) falls in love with a black woman, Mildred (Ruth Negga) and they decide to get married. Being from Virginia, this is not legal at the time, an interracial...

[Double Feature] Florence Foster Jenkins

2/13/2017

David: Florence Foster Jenkins tells the story of New York debutante Florence Foster Jenkins, an ex-piano prodigy, afflicted by syphilis, whose less than stellar musical talents are eventually...

Shannon: Florence Foster Jenkins stars Meryl Streep and tells the story of an elderly woman who loves the arts and wants to be an opera singer. After watching an opera singer, she fell in love...

[Double Feature] Hell or High Water

2/10/2017

David: I don’t have too many westerns in my current movie collection. It’s not that I don’t like them – frankly, I love them – but most of the classic ones are so outdated. As I stated in the Quick Hit...

Shannon: Hell or High Water follows two men, who are extremely poor and looking for a way to make money. They have this brilliant idea to rob banks in order to get the money they need...

[Double Feature] Jackie

2/9/2017

David: It’s been a post of two since I disclosed a personal, geeky fact about myself (I could look and find the last review I did so, but that would be rather exhausting). So here’s one for you...

Shannon: Starring Natalie Portman as Jackie, it is brought to screen the time immediately after JFK was murdered in Texas. The film starts out with Jackie talking with a reporter, she wants him...

[Double Feature] Fences

2/8/2017

David: Fences opens with Denzel Washington, playing Troy Maxson, riding along on the back of a garbage truck with his best friend Bono (played by Stephen Henderson). Both men are comfortable...

Shannon: The majority of this film is just about an older man who is trying to raise his family while trying to accept his life as the way it is. It’s the 1950’s and Troy (Denzel Washington) has a grown...

[Double Feature] Hidden Figures

2/7/2017

David: There’s a big knock in the film review circuit for films that are unoriginal. I myself have knocked films points for borrowing ideas heavily from other films, or not giving us a story...

Shannon: The first movie this week is Hidden Figures which brings us the story of three women who helped out greatly at NASA during the race to space in the 60s. They aren't just any women...

[Review] Rings

2/3/2017

by Shannon

It’s 15 years after The Ring was released and we are brought another movie that uses the “killer video.” If you have never seen or heard of The Ring is basically about a VHS tape that when watched, the girl comes from the TV and takes your soul back with her in seven days. The only way to stop it is to make a copy of the tape. Rings starts off with a young man on a plane who is counting down the minutes until his seven days are up. Being the intro, Samara (the girl from the...

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[Double Feature] Captain Fantastic

2/3/2017

David: Ah, Sundance, how I wish I could go to you. There are so many films I hear about coming out of Sundance, and this was one that immediately caught my ear. Captain Fantastic stars Viggo Mortensen as Ben Cash, father...

Shannon: At the beginning of the movie we are taken to the wilderness of Washington state, where Ben (Viggo Mortensen) is raising his family. His ideals for life are to prepare his children for everything in...

[Double Feature] The Space Between Us

2/2/2017

David: I’ve had a stretch where I’ve watched some terrible romance movies. So when I saw I was about to watch a movie starring Britt Roberson (The Longest Ride), I was a bit skeptical...

Shannon: The Space Between Us is about a teenage boy who is born on Mars. His mother was the lead astronaut on the first ever mission to live on Mars. After giving birth to Gardner...

[Double Feature] Manchester by the Sea

2/2/2017

David: Oscar nominations tend to be about certain subjects – people overcoming giant obstacles (My Left Foot), historical biopics (Ghandi, The Theory of Everything), and transformative performances...

Shannon: Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is a man living in Boston and working as a Janitor. It’s pretty obvious that he is a drunkard that is down on his luck. He soon gets a phone call informing...