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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Wonder” & “What’s Love Got To Do With It?”

Posted September 20, 2022 by Mitch Salem

  THE WONDER (Netflix – November 16):  In the time of Ireland’s Great Famine, 11-year-old Anna (Kila Lord Cassidy) claims to have survived for 4 months without eating even one bite of food.  Is she a miracle, possibly a saint in the making, or a sham?  The elders of her small town have the girl […]

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Sundance 2024 Film Reviews: “Little Death” & “Good One”

Posted January 28, 2024 by Mitch Salem

  LITTLE DEATH (no distrib):  Jack Begert’s first feature (co-written with Dani Goffstein) is a diptych about Los Angeles, put together in sharply contrasting ways.  The first half is about sitcom writer Martin (David Schwimmer) as he hustles to get his first film as writer/director greenlit, while coping with his splintering marriage to Jessica (Jena […]

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Act of Valor”

Posted February 25, 2012 by Mitch Salem

> ACT OF VALOR:  Watch It At Home –  Fast Forward When They’re Not Shooting If there were a genuine national military crisis, and a small group of expert soldiers were needed to protect the interests of the country, would you want George Clooney or Brad Pitt behind the triggers of those guns?  Not really.  […]

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Anonymous”

Posted October 27, 2011 by Mitch Salem

  ANONYMOUS:  Watch It At Home – The Bard Was A Beard, Claims Wheezy Expose   ANONYMOUS is history tailored for the 1%. Although screenwriter John Orloff and director Roland Emmerich have swirled it into a complicated tangle of conspiracies and scandals, the idea at the center of Anonymous is simple enough (uh, Spoiler Alert):  […]

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