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Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 2

November 9, 2020 0 Comments

Week two of listing favorite films that may not be on your radar because they're not new. A few of these were made before I was born, and they're still…

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Review: Let Him Go

November 2, 2020 0 Comments

Let Him Go is a slow burn. That takes a turn. That’ll make you squirm. Perhaps if you’ve read the 2013 novel “Let Him Go” by Larry Watson, the shocking…

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Quickie Review: Honest Thief

October 13, 2020 0 Comments

Honestly, Liam, what were you thinking? Honest Thief is simply not worthy of your well-documented 'particular set of skills.' The plot is beyond paper thin, making this particular action crime…

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Review: Kingdom of Silence

October 2, 2020 0 Comments

In October of 2018 the world reacted in horror at the news that journalist Jamal Khashoggi had been brutally murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The story of his…

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Review: Enola Holmes

September 23, 2020 0 Comments

Raise your hand if you knew legendary fictional detective Sherlock Holmes had a sister? I didn't. But then again, I grew up in the Nancy Drew era. I wasn't aware…

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Quickie Review: Kajillionaire

September 23, 2020 0 Comments

Kajillionaire is flush with quirk. It's an odd dramedy about a family of con artists comprised of Theresa (Debra Winger), Robert (Richard Jenkins), and their 26-year-old daughter Old Dolio (Evan…

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Review: The Burnt Orange Heresy

August 6, 2020 0 Comments

The Burnt Orange Heresy is an ‘arty’ film, in more than ways than one. It drew me in early on, meandered ever so slowly in the middle, then came back…

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Review: Force of Nature

June 29, 2020 0 Comments

Take Die Hard and add a $55 million art heist gone wrong, then set it in the middle of a Category 5 hurricane in Puerto Rico, and you've got Force…

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Quickie Review: My Spy

June 25, 2020 0 Comments

My Spy happened to be the last screening I went to in early March, before the coronavirus upended all our lives and, consequently, Hollywood's theatrical release schedule. In retrospect, My…

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Review: 7500

June 16, 2020 0 Comments

If the coronavirus isn’t enough to keep you grounded, perhaps this will do the trick! Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the young, soft-spoken American co-pilot of a commercial flight from Berlin to…

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Quickie Review: The LoveBirds

May 23, 2020 0 Comments

Oh, LoveBirds, how cruel you are! Setting us up to believe we’re in for a fun, engaging romantic comedy, then plunging us into the depths of stupidity for a solid…

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Review: Lucky Grandma

May 21, 2020 0 Comments

This dark comedy set mainly in New York's Chinatown begins with curmudgeonly chain-smoker Grandma (Tsai Chin - Joy Luck Club, Casino Royale) visiting LeiLei the Fortune Teller (Wai Ching Ho…

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Quickie Review: Arkansas

May 15, 2020 0 Comments

Arkansas is one of those indie flicks that somehow finagled a pretty impressive cast - Liam Hemsworth, Vince Vaughn, John Malkovich, Vivica A. Fox - even though it's directed by…

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Review: Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness

March 28, 2020 0 Comments

Wait, how did Tiger King get on here? It’s a documentary series, not a film! Too bad. I’m giving myself permission to write up (or not write up) whatever the…

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COVID-19 Streaming List

March 12, 2020 0 Comments

Just in case you're caught at home wondering what you can do to pass the time, here's a list of films that, if you haven't seen, you should, and if…