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Crip Camp and Resistance video reviews
New Season, New Movies in Theater or Online The new season of CJ @ The Movies begins, COVD-19 or no COVID-19, and there are always new movies available online for streaming or on VOD. So, this week’s video reviews consist… Read More ›
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Crip Camp
The first beautiful documentary of the year and the decade. “Crip Camp” is a made-for-Netflix documentary that will bring tears to your eyes. It focuses on Camp Jened, just down the road from Woodstock in the 1970s, which welcomed disabled… Read More ›
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Resistance
Jesse Eisenberg is winning as the WWII heroic actor. In a vein of “Schindler’s List” and “Life is Beautiful,” “Resistance” is a WWII movie that’s based on the true story of how French actor and mime Marcel Marceau (1923-2007) saved… Read More ›
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Delicatessen, The City Lost Children, and Amelie
French cinema at its goofiest and dazzling level. I really passion the bizarre and wacky humor and visual world of director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, a French filmmaker, who provides us some of the best features in his careers. “Delicatessen,” “The City… Read More ›
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Braveheart
The film that gave Mel Gibson 2 Oscars turns 25 “Braveheart” would have its 25th anniversary showing in theaters, if not for the coronavirus closing them down, but still we should honor the film for giving Mel Gibson two Oscars… Read More ›
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Cotton Club, 1900, Night Moves, MacBeth, Marvin Gardens, and Miami Blues
Polanksi, De Niro, Coppola, Baldwin, Nicholson, and Hackman-all part of some past selections. A friend of mine has loaned me some of his DVDs from his collection, and given our Coronavirus nightmare (with “Black Widow,” “F9,” “A Quiet Place: Part… Read More ›
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The Banker
Give it up for Anthony Mackie and Samuel L. Jackson as the bankers who helped changed the rules. When you see recent period movies about African-Americans breaking all the rules, like in “The Help,” “Marshall,” “Green Book,” or “Django Unchained,”… Read More ›
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Big Time Adolescence
A coming-of-age Hulu comedy about a good kid under bad influences. In “Big Time Adolescence,” we meet a high school kid named Mo Harris (Griffin Gluck) hanging out with his best friend-the college dropout Zeke (Pete Davidson)-whom his older sister… Read More ›
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How to Survive a Virus Flick
The virus movies that frightened us or drove us crazy. The Coronavirus or COVID-19 has not only cancelled a variety of movie events from SXSW to Tribeca and postponed select movies (“No Time to Die,” “Mulan,” “A Quiet Place: Part… Read More ›
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Bloodshot, Hunt, I Still Believe, and Hope Gap video reviews
This week’s video reviews consist of Vin Diesel as the comic book character “Bloodshot,” the controversial thriller “The Hunt,” the Christian music drama “I Still Believe,” and the divorce drama “Hope Gap.” The Final Verdict “Bloodshot” ☠️ Poison for the Mind (0/4)… Read More ›