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Josh Matthews

Downsizing (2017) DramaMovie ReviewsSci-Fi

Downsizing (2017)

Title: Downsizing Directed by: Alexander Payne Written by: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor Starring: Matt Damon, Christopher Waltz, Hong Chau I suspect that if I were very big, as Book One of Gulliver’s Travels allows me to imagine, I would want to be small again. Yet my children…
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January 8, 2018
Three Billboards (2017) ComedyCrimeDramaMovie Reviews

Three Billboards (2017)

Title: Three BillboardsDirectors: Martin McDonaghScreenplay: Martin McDonaghStarring: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Peter Dinklage, Lucas Hedges, Caleb Landry JonesMusic: Carter Burwell They got the odd, plain title of this movie, every word of it, just right. They also made one of the best films of the year. You…
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December 29, 2017
Logan Lucky (2017) ComedyCrimeDramaMovie Reviews

Logan Lucky (2017)

Title: Logan Lucky Director: Steven Soderbergh Screenplay: Rebecca Blunt Music by: David Holmes Producers: Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin, Gregory Jacobs, Mark Johnson For two hours, “Logan Lucky” offers many fine ,jazz-like riffs on the familiar melodies of the heist-movie plot. Its reworkings of those melodies bring…
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September 21, 2017
Dunkirk (2017) ActionDramaHistoryMovie Reviews

Dunkirk (2017)

Title: Dunkirk Directed by: Christopher Nolan Screenplay by: Christopher Nolan Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy Music by: Hans Zimmer The men crouch on the beach, ducking for cover from the divebomber’s bombs.  A pilot crashes into the English Channel,…
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August 3, 2017
Rashomon (1950) CrimeDramaMovie ReviewsMystery

Rashomon (1950)

Title: Rashomon Directed by: Akira Kurosawa Written by: Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Akira Kurosawa Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori Try this: Type “Rashomon” into Google News and see what you come up with. I’ve been doing just that over a period of years, since I…
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June 26, 2017