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Mainstream Chick’s Middleburg Film Festival Download (2018)

October 25, 2018 0 Comments

Despite a few (hotel reservation and RSVP) potholes on the road to this year’s Middleburg Film Festival, all’s well that ends well! And what an ending it was. The closing…

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Review: BlackkKlansman

August 13, 2018 0 Comments

Spike Lee's latest joint is about as far fetched as you could imagine. Set in the early 70s, Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) becomes Colorado Springs, Colorado's first African-American cop.…

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Review: Custody (Jusqu’à la garde)

August 2, 2018 0 Comments

Custody begins as a separated couple, Antoine (Denis Ménochet) and Miriam (Léa Drucker), sit before a magistrate who will decide the fate of their children. Their daughter Joséphine (Mathilde Auneveux)…

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Review: Dark Money

July 12, 2018 0 Comments

It's the documentary of our time. Untraceable money is flooding US political races, from corporations and rich individuals with agendas that run counter to the will of the people. Filmmaker…

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Review: Foxtrot

May 8, 2018 0 Comments

This moving Israeli drama begins with a scene every parent with a child in the army fears -- the knock at the door and the soldiers with solemn faces. They…

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Review: The Guardians (Les gardiennes)

May 3, 2018 0 Comments

Most World War One movies are set in the battles and the trenches, but The Guardians takes place at home on a farm in rural of France. There the women…

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Review: You Were Never Really Here

April 30, 2018 0 Comments

Joaquin Phoenix is a phenomenal actor, but his choices of roles lately tend to be odd loners in strange situations (Inherent Vice, The Master, Her, to name just a few))…

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Mini-Review: The Leisure Seeker

April 16, 2018 0 Comments

I was looking forward to this road trip flick with Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren. But sadly, while they are both pretty great, the script for this movie, itself an…

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Mini-reviews: The Oscar Nominated Shorts 2018 (Animation & Live Action)

February 8, 2018 0 Comments

Another year, another batch of short films. This year, there were none I was absolutely in love with. Last year was full of punch you in the guts social issues…

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Mini-reviews: The Oscar Nominated Shorts 2018 (Documentary)

February 8, 2018 0 Comments

Last year was all about war and refugees and people in peril a world away. This time it's all about people here at home though still in peril. The films…

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Review: The Insult (L’insulte)

January 11, 2018 0 Comments

Since most of what we're fed about the Middle East is about war and strife, it's always good to see a film about regular people set there. And since Lebanon…

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Review: The Divine Order

November 30, 2017 0 Comments

The Divine Order (Die göttliche Ordnung) tells the story of women’s suffrage in Switzerland. I had no idea that the women there didn’t get the right to vote until 1971.…

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Review: The Square

November 29, 2017 0 Comments

Winner of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival's Palme D'Or, The Square is a darkly funny satire set in the art world. Christian (Claes Bang) is the head curator at a…

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Review: Mudbound

November 17, 2017 0 Comments

Mudbound was another film we both saw at Middleburg. It won the audience award at the festival and it’s easy to see why: great performances in a tragic epic of…

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Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

November 17, 2017 0 Comments

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a darkly funny masterpiece. Oscar nods await, no doubt. It’s the story of Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) a mother who is righteously pissed that…