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THE REAL CHARLIE CHAPLIN- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “From the award-winning creative team behind Notes On Blindness and Listen To Me, Marlon comes a contemporary take on cinema’s most iconic figure. In an innovative blend of newly-unearthed audio recordings, dramatic reconstructions and personal archive, the film traces Charlie Chaplin’s meteoric rise from the slums of Victorian London to the heights of Hollywood superstardom, before his scandalous fall from grace.”
12/10/21- Great reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
Tags: documentary
December 10th, 2021
NATIONAL CHAMPIONS- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Three days before the college football national championship game, star quarterback LeMarcus James (Stephan James) and teammate Emmett Sunday (Alexander Ludwig) ignite a player’s strike declaring they won’t compete until all student-athletes are fairly compensated. With billions of dollars at risk and legacies on the line, the stakes could not be higher.”
12/10/21- Reviews are just fair. TRDB.
Tags: drama
December 10th, 2021
FRANCE- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “In FRANCE, a satirical drama set in contemporary Paris, Léa Seydoux stars as France de Meurs, a seemingly unflappable superstar TV journalist whose career, home life, and psychological stability are turned upside down after she carelessly drives into a young delivery man on a busy street.”
12/10/21- Awful reviews for this French movie but it sounded OK to me. TRDB.
Tags: drama, drama. foreign
December 10th, 2021
THE UNFORGIVABLE- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime, Ruth Slater (Sandra Bullock) re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past. Facing severe judgment from the place she once called home, her only hope for redemption is finding the estranged younger sister she was forced to leave behind.”
12/10/21- Poor reviews by the critics and fairly good ones from audiences. TRDB.
Tags: drama
December 10th, 2021
BACK TO THE OUTBACK- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they’re monsters, a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot a daring escape from their zoo to the Outback, a place where they’ll fit in without being judged for their scales and fangs.”
12/10/21- Good reviews in general for this animated movie. TRDB.
Tags: animated, drama
December 10th, 2021
A SON ( UN FILS )-2019. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “A SON (UN FILS) is an intense family drama about 11 year old Aziz who needs a liver transplant after being seriously injured during a terrorist ambush while on holiday in 2011. At the hospital, a family secret will be revealed.”
12/10/21- Excellent reviews for this drama from Tunisia. TRDB.
Tags: drama, drama/foreign
December 10th, 2021
THE LADY OF HEAVEN- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “The heart-wrenching journey of Lady Fatima, the daughter of Prophet Muhammad. Separated by 1400 years, an Iraqi child, in the midst of a war-torn country at the hands of ISIS, learns the importance and power of patience. After losing his mother, the child finds himself in a new home, where a loving grandmother narrates the historical story of The Lady and how her suffering as the first victim of terrorism spun out of control into the 21st century.”
12/10/21- Just 2 reviews so far and they are both very good. TRDB.
Tags: drama, history
December 10th, 2021
RED ROCKET- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “The audacious new film from writer-director Sean Baker (The Florida Project, Tangerine), starring Simon Rex in a magnetic, live-wire performance, Red Rocket is a darkly funny and humane portrait of a uniquely American hustler and a hometown that barely tolerates him.”
12/10/21- Good reviews by the critics and fair ones from audiences. TRDB.
Tags: drama
December 10th, 2021
WRITING WITH FIRE- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Chief reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions, redefining what it means to be powerful.”
12/9/21- Excellent reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
Tags: documentary
December 9th, 2021
BEING THE RICARDOS- 2021. Synopsis by Netflix. “Chronicling a week of filming the beloved 1950s sitcom “I Love Lucy,” this biopic follows stars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz as they experience personal and professional crises that could end their relationship onscreen and off.”
12/8/21- Just fair reviews for this drama/biopic but I liked it very much. I loved Lucy too. TRDB.
Tags: drama/biopic
December 8th, 2021
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