Anyone But You: Can Faking A Relationship Save the Weekend?

Anyone But You is the latest Will Gluck film to draw inspiration from a classic play or story and does so with hysteric success. Like any romantic comedy, Anyone But You is not immune to the classic tropes. It’s what the film manages to do with it in which the film lives or dies on its own. If it’s a Will Gluck film, you can expect the filmmaker to find a way to bring Natasha…

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The Boys in the Boat: George Clooney Does It Again

George Clooney does it again as he brings Washington’s 1936 underdog rowing team to the screen in The Boys in the Boat. Being a Kentucky native, I’m always excited whenever I hear that Clooney is directing a new film. Watching the film is how I spent my Thanksgiving evening. It was my first Thanksgiving weekend watching a new Clooney film since 2005’s Good Night, And Good Luck. The University of Washington rowing team competing in…

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Moxie: A Feminist Revolution

It’s very easy to look at Moxie and think it’s a Mean Girls copycat but when you step back, this is very much a #MeToo film. This is a film that deals with the arrival of a new student but not in the same way as the Tina Fey-directed film.  But at the same time, new student Lucy (Alycia Pascual-Peña) isn’t the main star of the film.  Vivian (Hadley Robinson) takes an ode to her…

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