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[Double Feature] Before Sunset

8/31/2016

David: The next movie in the Linklater trilogy after Before Sunrise is Before Sunset. It picks up the narrative thread nine years after the events of the first movie. Jesse has written a book that is almost an...

Shannon: And the boringness continues. So it's NINE years later and Celine finds Jesse while on his book tour in Paris - the book is about their crazy time in Vienna bee tee dubs. How can she not...

[Double Feature] Before Sunrise

8/29/2016

by David

by Shannon

David: I’ll start by prefacing this: I watched the entire Richard Linklater trilogy (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight) in the span of just over 36 hours. Therefore, it’s going to be hard for me to...

Shannon: Before Sunrise follows Jesse and Celine (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy) after they meet on a train in Europe. After eating lunch and talking for awhile, Jesse asks Celine to get off the train...

[Double Feature] 10 Cloverfield Lane

8/26/2016

by David

by Shannon

David: 10 Cloverfield Lane is not a true sequel. In fact, there is almost nothing to link it to the previous movie besides the name. J.J. Abrams has described it as a “spiritual sequel”, and after watching it

Shannon: The title of this film is a little misleading. At first, we think of the movie Cloverfield - (which the DoubleFeaturePreachers reviewed several months ago – take a look now), but I’m fairly...

[Double Feature] Room

8/24/2016

by David

by Shannon

David: Some movies talk about things we don’t always like talking about. I’ve mentioned this with Chi-raq and a few other titles. Room is a movie that generated a lot of buzz during awards season last year...

Shannon: Room is about a young woman and her five year old son, who live in a tiny space that they call "room." To start off, the back story of this movie is a man kidnaps Joy (Brie Larson) when...

[Double Feature] The Bronze

8/19/2016

by David

by Shannon

David: The Bronze is an independent (ish) film that comes from the studio of the Duplass brothers. They’re pumping out quite a few movies now, and it seems like most of them are completely hit or miss...

Shannon: The Bronze is far different from any of the other Olympic themed movies we have watched for this review series. One, it is not based on a true story, though is still about an Olympian...

[Double Feature] Eddie the Eagle

8/15/2016

by David

by Shannon

David: Continuing Olympic Week, we have a newer film than some of the others we posted about. This film is Eddie the Eagle, only came out in February of this year. It follows the true story of Eddie...

Shannon: Eddie the Eagle is the true story of Eddie Edwards, who always has had a dream of being an Olympian. From the time he was a little boy to the time he was a young adult. His mother...

[Double Feature] Chariots of Fire

8/12/2016

by David

by Shannon

David: Dang it. I thought this was going to be good. This movie won four Academy Awards, and came up on almost every Google search I performed regarding Olympics. I eagerly put it on reserve at the library...

Shannon: I hope that you are enjoying our “Olympic” filled movie reviews! Today’s post is on Chariots of Fire. This movie tells use the stories of runners Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams, who...

[Double Feature] Miracle

8/10/2016

by David

by Shannon

David: Movies about sports are pretty much a favorite of most people. Almost everyone has a favorite sports movie: some are comedies for kids (The Mighty Ducks, Rookie of the Year, The Sandlot), some are...

Shannon: I’ll be the first to admit that ice hockey is my sport (#GoBlues), so I thought that this movie would be right up my alley. Miracle tells the true story of the USA Olympic Ice...

[Double Feature] Cool Runnings

8/8/2016

by David

by Shannon

David: There are a couple movies that people just love to quote. Some movies everyone quotes, “Say hello, to my little friend!” “Phone home” etc. Other movies seem to fall to a certain...

Shannon: Cool Runnings is a true tale of four young men from Jamaica who decide to start their very own bobsled team in hopes to make it to the Olympics. I know what you’re thinking...

[Double Feature] Foxcatcher

8/5/2016

by David

by Shannon

David: Some movies are more visceral for the audience than others, and Foxcatcher is definitely that. It is the story of two wrestlers, Dave and Mark Schultz, both of them Olympic Champions...

Shannon: Foxcatcher is about two young men (Mark and Dave Schultz - love the names BTW) who work with John DuPont in order to make it to the Olympics for wrestling. DuPont wanted...

[Double Feature] Looper

8/3/2016

by David

by Shannon

David: Does anybody else like JGL (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)? I think that he is a tremendous actor that uses star power to get movies made that no one else would want to (like a...

Shannon: Sometime in the future, there is a mob that offs their victims by sending them into the past to be shot and disposed of. Joseph Gordon Levitt stars as Joe, a hired gunman who is...

[Double Feature] Before Sunset

[Double Feature] Before Sunrise

[Double Feature] 10 Cloverfield Lane

[Double Feature] Room

[Double Feature] The Bronze

[Double Feature] Eddie the Eagle

[Double Feature] Chariots of Fire

[Double Feature] Miracle

[Double Feature] Cool Runnings

[Double Feature] Foxcatcher

[Double Feature] Looper

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