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The Last Vermeer

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/19/2020 10:24 AM EDT
Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch artist who lived in the middle of the 1600s. While alive, he gained a certain level of regional success but, due to his expensive paint supplies and having a family of eleven children, he died in 1675 leaving his family with a mountain of debt.Henricus Antonius "Han" Van Meegeren was born almost three ce... Read More

The Last Vermeer

(Alyn Darnay) 11/18/2020 10:11 AM EDT
Just when you think every interesting story about WWII has been told and retold, along comes another, and this one as compelling as any that came before. "The Last Vermeer", is a tale of mystery, of Art Fraud, and the weeding out of Nazi collaboration at the end of the war. It's also a gripping courtroom drama with twist after twist and a... Read More

The New Mutants

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/17/2020 2:14 PM EDT
In 1939 publisher Martin Goodman created Timely Publications, and twenty-two years later, thanks mainly to Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and the legendary, Stan Lee, Marvel Comics was born. Two years after the first X-Men comic was published. Based on a group of "mutants" with supernatural powers, the X-Men were feared by humans ev... Read More

LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/17/2020 12:26 AM EDT
Star Wars is so much more than just a series of films produced over four decades. It is a multi-million-dollar franchise and a culture all its own. It has nine core movies, numerous spin-off films, cartoons, toys, books, television series, videogames, dolls and so much more. Lego toys are almost three decades older than the Star W... Read More

Westworld: Season 3: The New World

(Nathan M Rose) 11/16/2020 5:00 PM EDT
In 1973 a young Michael Crichton (way before Jurassic Park was ever written) made his directorial debut. The film called, Westworld, starred Yul Brynner (The Ten Commandments) and detailed what happened when robots in a futuristic adult theme park go crazy. Westworld had mediocre success, but in October 2016, the property was picked up by Jonathan ... Read More

Mallrats: 2-Disc 25th Anniversary Special Edition

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/16/2020 10:00 AM EDT
Kevin Patrick Smith (Clerks) was born and raised fifteen minutes from me in Monmouth County, New Jersey, and is a mere six months older than me (yet abundantly more financially successful). When his first feature film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, won two awards and later screened at the Cannes International Film Festival, where it c... Read More

Freaky

(Alyn Darnay) 11/14/2020 8:20 PM EDT
What do you need to spin a yarn about teenagers in danger, that twists the usual Slasher/Comedy film in some unique way, yet stays true to the original genre?Simple. First, you borrow every cliché in every film of its type that came before it and blends it into a slickly shot, gory, playtime piece that your projected audience is both used to... Read More

Dreamland

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/13/2020 12:59 PM EDT
Bonnie and Clyde were probably two of the most notorious criminals of the great depression error who died together in 1934. However, have you ever wondered what would happen to Bonnie without Clyde? What if she was only slightly wounded, hiding, a fugitive from the law?What if you were a young man living in poverty with your family in t... Read More

The Last Dance

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/12/2020 3:15 PM EDT
The top athletes in almost any sport are revered all over the world. Their talent, their competitive spirit, their hard work, their strength and agility, and their mindset make them the best and they are celebrated for it. They are paid handsomely, and they become celebrities. Their goals are to play as long as possible and win of... Read More

Freaky

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 11/11/2020 2:09 PM EDT
How often do you see on the internet a film categorized as Horror/Comedy? It's a rare event indeed as one would not normally think of those two film genres together. Some might argue that the Scream franchise has some hints of comedy in them but not enough to label them as such. Interestingly, Happy Death Day is listed as Horror/Mystery... Read More