Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Often Delightful, Sometimes Heartbreaking, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza Is One of the Year’s Best

Licorice Pizza

I was too young in the early to mid-1970s to have any real appreciation or nostalgia for the era today; and I grew up on the east coast, nowhere near […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Featuring Real-life Father Daughter Sean and Dylan Penn, Flag Day Explores Family Dynamics and Overcoming Traumas

Flag Day

Based on the real-life story of journalist Jennifer Vogel, Flag Day offers a volatile father-daughter tale that is as much about the way we love certain family members unconditionally as […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Val Chronicles Val Kilmer’s Career, Family Life and Infamous Bad Boy Reputation

Val

So the story goes that for pretty much the entirety of his adult life, actor Val Kilmer owned various film and video-recording devices that he used to document every film […]

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Review: Sean Penn Is Willing to Get Uncomfortable, Use His Celebrity for Good in Citizen Penn

Citizen Penn

There are probably things that actor/director Sean Penn regrets doing in his life. His affiliations with the likes of former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and Mexican drug lord Joaquín Archivaldo […]

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Review: A New Entry in the Bad Boys Franchise is Stuck in the Past

Bad Boys for Life

Despite the fact that Bad Boys for Life (the third Bad Boys movie, for those counting, and the first since 2003) is meant to focus on its lead characters getting […]

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