Tag: Toni Collette
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Nightmare Alley – Movie Review
Nightmare Alley – Movie Review 150 Minutes, Rated R Written by Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan, based on the novel by William Linday Gresham Directed by Guillermo del Toro **UPDATE: this post has been updated with audio since we actually got the chance to talk about it.** **UPDATE #2: You can read some more…
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Next up, we talk about a new drama/comedy/what-the-hell-did-I-just-watch? film from Netflix: I’m Thinking of Ending Things Written and directed by Charlie Kaufman Synopsis: Full of misgivings, a young woman travels with her new boyfriend to his parents’ secluded farm. Upon arriving, she comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and herself. Oh,…
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Coming Soon – Dream Horse
I don’t normally go in for an-animal-sure-to-make-you-cry movie fare, but horse racing movies somehow always seem to sneak by my defenses (Seabiscuit, Secretariat…). Dream Horse is likely no exception. And it’s a British movie?! Dang it. I’m in. From Bleecker Street, starring Toni Collette, Damian Lewis, Joanna Page, and Owen Teale, Dream Horse is directed…
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Knives Out
Releasing for Thanksgiving, it’s a fun, family-oriented, murder mystery (if your family is anything like these folks, anyway…), from the director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Rian Johnson, it’s: Knives Out Take an apparent suicide, stir in a hard-boiled southern PI, add a heaping helping of a money-grubbing family, then add more than a…
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Velvet Buzzsaw
Velvet Buzzsaw Here’s a film that was slated to debut at the Sundance Film Festival, but which Netflix snapped up before the festival even started. Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo star in this biting look at the art industry from writer/director Dan Gilroy… with a little something different on the side.
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The VSMP 2018 Mid-Year Roundup
That’s right, it’s our 2018 Mid-Year Roundup, where we talk about movies and how they fit into some awards-season-style categories. Best and Worst Picture, most disappointing, most overlooked, Best Actor and Actress… we even, shockingly, tangent a bit in a couple spots, but it’s all about movies. There’s some surprises, some predictable entries, and a…