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Ever since it screened at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it took home both the audience and cinematography awards, An Education has gone on to charm festival audiences worldwide. But even as it’s generating Oscar buzz—especially for its young lead, Carey Mulligan, who’s been hailed the new Audrey Hepburn—the film has also sparked a fair amount of ire along the way, with a few outraged theatergoers dismissing it as “that pedophile movie” for its depiction of the relationship between a precocious 16-year-old girl (Mulligan) and her sophisticated older lover (Peter Sarsgaard).

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Dance against the escalating danger of revolution-eve Cuba

July 25, 2019July 25, 2019

I was not a fan of “Dirty Dancing,” although $150 million in 1987 box-office dollars attempted, unsuccessfully, to convince me I was wrong. I thought Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey were terrific dancers, and I thought the plot was a clunker assembled from surplus parts at the Broken Plots Store. The actions of the characters (especially her parents) were so foreordained, they played like closing night of a run that had gone on way too long.

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The Notebook: Behind every great love story is a story

July 25, 2019July 25, 2019

The Notebook is a timeless love story based on the novel written by Nicholas Sparks. The movie focuses on the young love of Allie Nelson and Noah Calhoun, played by Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling. The film creates the perfect romance scene for the two to fall in love. What makes this story so amazing is that it goes back and forth from when they fell in love to later in their life.

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Apollo 11: An eye-opening documentary for 50th anniversary of Moon Landing

July 19, 2019July 19, 2019

The documentary Apollo 11 starts, as the famous mission did, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Trucks ferry massive rocket props, machinery grinds as it would in any construction zone, the sky is a crystal blue. The scene is, in a word, vibrant – so startlingly alive that for the first few minutes, I wasn’t sure if I was watching footage from 1969 or a Nasa promo shot from last year.

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Toy Story movies and Pixar’s technological evolution

July 15, 2019July 15, 2019

Toy Story 4, which tells the story of an object made out of garbage, becomes a child’s best friend and the adventures of toys, was released on June 21st. The fourth film in the series, Toy Story 4, is a film that touches the audience emotionally and takes them to their childhood.

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Tel Aviv on Fire: A genial comedy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

July 12, 2019July 13, 2019

Both responses will attach themselves to Sameh Zoabi’s genial satire about a Palestinian soap opera writer and the Israeli security officer who tries to influence the direction of a TV show’s plot. Fitfully amusing yet unable to withstand close inspection, the movie will be a popular item in festivals and showcases, though Israeli money means Arab play is impossible.

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One night in the life of a group people in a small town

July 12, 2019July 12, 2019

“Summer Night” is clearly inspired by classics with a big cast of future stars and generation-defining songs on the soundtrack like “American Graffiti” and “Dazed and Confused” or non-classic but strong films like “Can’t Hardly Wait” and “10 Years,” starring promising newcomers and featuring a soundtrack filled with great songs. Despite an appealing cast, though, this film is as aimless as its characters, a slight story about one night in the life of a group of 20-somethings in a small town.

Film Review for The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968)

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“Just touch me and I won’t go.” – Rebecca

July 12, 2019July 12, 2019

When I talk about film, I’ll go on and on about the lack of lonely women movies. There are plenty, in fact the world is overflowing with lonely men movies. Taxi Driver, Falling Down, Psycho, Nightcrawler, Fight Club, A Serious Man, The Shining, Easy Rider, Only God Forgives, It’s A Wonderful Life*, oh the list can go on and on and on.

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A challenging friendship story “Stan & Ollie”

July 2, 2019July 2, 2019

Inspired by A. J. Marriot’s 1993 book Laurel and Hardy: The British Tours, Stan & Ollie takes the final stages of the career of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, the world’s most famous comedy duo. Jon S. Baird, the director of the film, respects the duo with their natural talent for comedy, while focusing on the behind-the-scenes lives that most of us probably don’t know.

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Film Review for Spider-Man: Far From Home

July 1, 2019July 1, 2019

I stan a pipsqueak. What I mean to say is that I like Peter Parker in “Spider-Man: Far From Home” for the same reason I liked Miles Morales in “Into the Spider-Verse”: he’s a teenager. In pop-culture years, the web-slinger is pushing 60, but his most recent movie incarnations have emphasized his youth. Tom Holland, the British actor who has played Spider-Man since 2016, recently turned 23, but he still plausibly looks and sounds like a 16-year-old New York City high school student. This is as it should be.