While watching “Mothering Sunday,” I knew that it would be a difficult review. Reading that it was based on a novel, I immediately felt that perhaps it should have remained one for as hard as director Eva Husson tried, she didn’t quite manage to get the story to leap off the page as it seemed too far a stretch.
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Writer/Director Mariama Diallo is laying down a fierce message in her debut film “Master.” As well as a fun horror-thriller, it seems to be a comment on racism in society as a whole in this country. What’s out there is the truth, whether you want to believe it or not. It’s a frightening thing to see, but you mustn’t look away.
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“The Outfit” is a movie, as it seems, ‘tailor-made’ to display the talents of the main star. Being a British import into 1950’s gangster-infused Chicago, the main character (a professional tailor, pardon me, ‘cutter’) is there to give some suave class to his ‘gentlemen’. Creating all the stylish suits worn by the mobster elite brings a tense situation to his clothing shop late one night…
Something I didn’t know going in was that “Compartment No. 6” is based on Rosa Liksom’s 2011 novel. The film has the same name as the book, though it was initially titled “Hytti nro 6.”
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Directed by: Richard Linklater
Written by: Richard Linklater
Starring: Milo Coy, Lee Eddy, Bill Wise, Natalie L’Amoreaux, Josh Wiggins, Sam Chipman, Jessica Brynn Cohen, Danielle Guilbot with Zachary Levi and Glen Powell and Jack Black
Rated: PG-13
Run Time: 1h 37m
Genres: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Producers: Richard Linklater, Mike Blizzard, Tommy Pallotta, Femke Wolting, Bruno Felix
Executive Producers: John Sloss
Written and Directed by: Goran Stolevski
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Anamaria Marinca, Alice Englert, Carloto Cotta, Félix Maritaud, Sara Klimoska
Rated: R
Run Time: 1h 48m
Genres: Drama, Horror
Directed by: Baz Luhrmann
Screenplay by: Baz Luhrmann, Sam Bromell, Craig Pearce
Starring: Tom Hanks, Austin Butler, Olivia DeJonge, David Wenham, Gary Clark Jr.
Genres: Biography, Drama, Music
“Dog” sounds as though it will be nothing more than a remake of an older movie — “Turner and Hooch in Fatigues”. But no, this movie gets into a quite different aspect of the ‘odd couple’ pairing of one ex-Army Ranger and one ex-Army Ranger canine.
