The “Belfast” storyline is deeply personal for writer/director Kenneth Branagh because what you see play out in the film is what Branagh recalls seeing in his neighborhood when he was growing up. The 1960s in Northern Ireland was a time of great tumult between the Catholics and the Protestants. Here, we see the struggle your everyday family would have had to not only survive the civil war brewing in their neighborhoods but, at the same time, to do the right thing for their family.
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This is a documentary about the campaign of the youngest man to ever run for president of the United States. But because of who he is, it’s not as much about his canvassing and kissing babies as it is about who he’s doing it with.
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Writer: Chad Hodge
Starring: Michael Urie, Philemon Chambers, Luke Macfarlane, Barry Bostwick, Jennifer Robertson with Jennifer Coolidge and Kathy Najimy
Run Time: 1h 39m
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released Direct to Video on November 9th, 2021
“The Drummer” is a slow-moving anti-war movie with too many heavy-handed topics. It treats the characters as players in a moral dilemma based during the height of the Iraq War. Set in 2008, in a small town in upstate New York, a little place called ‘The Drummer’ becomes a focal point of resistance to the ongoing War. The people involved are soldiers (or ex-soldiers) who want nothing to do with the thing they are stuck doing.
When sitting down to watch this film, please make sure you’ve just finished “The Souvenir” first, as it picks up very nicely where that first one left off. Back-to-back watching is essential.
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“Eternals” makes a splash on the big screen, with a world-class director and the densest storyline since “Endgame”. However, with the potential to make a tidal wave, this movie struggles to make it to high tide. All the multitude of characters and the story stretched out over 7,000 years just makes for a muddled mixture of awe and flaw. The subtle introduction of very diverse characters does not count for much, if you wind up not caring for them.
Director: Torquil Jones
Executive Producers: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Nirmal “Nimsdai” Purja, Mark Webber, Anna Barnes
Produced by: Noah Media Group in association with Little Monster Films
Run Time: 1h 41min
Genre: Documentary
The idea behind making a documentary film is to, sometimes, shed light on oppression or wrongdoing. Once the film is made, people will see the truth that may not have even played out in the news… if the director did his job. All of that takes place right here because the director most certainly did do his job.
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“Antlers” is a horror movie that turns the darkness up to eleven. The dark atmosphere and the dark mood are finely tuned, to give it a really off-kilter feeling. The characters are beset by a supernatural presence that they cannot contain. The bigger picture of Lower Class troubles and Native People issues are mentioned, but not explored. The main dilemma is the monster in the midst of this small Oregon town. And it is ready to kill to get its way…
“Last Night in Soho” is a psychological thriller movie about the mysterious link between a present day fashion college student and a blond bombshell cabaret singer from the late 1960’s. It is set in London, in the Soho District. This is where art and music and clubs mingle in a delicious stew of hedonistic wonder. The art student connects with, and begins to emulate, her decades-in-the-past muse. But if the narrator is unreliable from the beginning, can you really know what is going on?
