I KILL GIANTS- 2018. Synopsis by Netflix. “Bored and lonely middle-schooler Barbara Thorson has developed an active fantasy life to compensate. But when a new girl in town offers friendship and a counselor tries to help Barbara, real life begins to intrude on her monster-killing fantasies.”
3/23/18- Fair reviews from both critics and audiences. TRDB.
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ROXANNE ROXANNE- 2018. Synopsis by Netflix. “In 1984, 14-year-old Lolita Shanté Gooden bursts onto the hip-hop scene when she releases a track called “Roxanne’s Revenge,” which becomes a sensation. But despite the song’s success, she struggles to feed her family amid life in the projects.”
3/23/18- Fairly good reviews. TRDB.
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THE WORKSHOP- 2018. Synopsis by Netflix. “Once bustling, the port town of La Ciotat has seen better times — which writers in a workshop there are trying to reflect in their collective novel. But the hostility and disturbing vision of one participant soon alarm his peers and the instructor.”
3/23/18- Very good reviews for this French drama. TRDB.
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ISMAEL’S GHOSTS- 2018. Synopsis by Netflix. “While preparing to shoot a movie about a diplomat’s life, director Ismaël Vuillard gets an unexpected visit from his long-dead lover Carlotta — which not only drives away his current partner but soon begins driving him out of his mind.”
3/23/18- Fair reviews from the critics and poor ones from audiences. TRDB.
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THE LAST SUIT (EL ULTIMO TRAJE)- 2018. Synopsis by IMDB. “Abraham Bursztein, an 88 years old Jewish tailor, runs away from Buenos Aires to Poland, where he proposes to find a friend who saved him from certain death at the end of World War II.”
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UNSANE- 2018. Synopsis by Netflix. “Shot in secret on an iPhone in just over one week, this experimental tale from director Steven Soderbergh focuses on a woman who finds herself committed to a mental asylum, where she will confront her greatest fear.”
3/21/18- Fairly good reviews for this drama/mystery. TRDB.
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JOURNEY’S END- 2018. Synopsis by Netflix. “Set in March 1918, this tense World War I drama focuses on a small group of British soldiers in the trenches at Mont Saint-Quentin, France, who know exactly what’s coming: a massive German offensive. But what they don’t know is when.”
3/16/18- Excellent reviews from all sources. TRDB.
7/28/18- I enjoyed this movie which shows yet again that war is certainly like hell. TRDB. Netflix Disc.
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DEAR DICTATOR- 2018. Synopsis by Netflix. “When island-nation dictator Anton Vincent gets run out of office, he takes refuge in the garage of his 16-year-old American pen-pal, Tatiana Mills. Before long, he’s teaching his young protégé how to dethrone the mean girls and rule her school.”
3/16/18- Awful reviews and included here only because Sir Michael Caine is one of the stars. TRDB.
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NO LIGHT AND NO LAND ANYWHERE- 2018. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Grieving her mother’s death and her own failing marriage, Lexi boards a plane from London to Los Angeles in search of the estranged father who abandoned her when she was three-years-old. Based out of a seedy Hollywood motel, she follows a tenuous trail of breadcrumbs, beginning with his aging former in-laws, collecting numbers and addresses in the hopes that one will lead to her father. Along the way, she establishes other unexpected connections: her father’s ailing former second wife, her bitter half-sister Tanya and her caregiver girlfriend, and two local barflies.”
3/16/18- I’ve seen just 1 review and it is mixed. TRDB.
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ALLURE- 2018. Synopsis by Netflix. “While trying to overcome her miserable past, 30-year-old Laura meets teenage Eva, a client’s daughter suffocating under her mother’s discipline. Laura and Eva quickly bond, but what seems to be compassion for Eva soon becomes Laura’s obsession.”
3/16/18- I’ve seen just 4 reviews- 2 up and 2 down. I’d give it a try. TRDB.
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