Comedy… Movie #238 2020: Pride (2014) 25 Jul 202025 Jul 2020 Would you look at that? A gay watching a movie about gays. Groundbreaking. Pride is the 2014 movie based on a true story; the story of an unlikely partnership between…
Drama… Movie #205 2020: Fruitvale Station (2013) 11 Jun 20209 Jun 2020 Perhaps one of the lesser known films regarding police brutality due to its low budget and indie status is Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale Station. Before you ask: yes, that's the guy…
Drama… Movie #200 2020: Selma (2014) 9 Jun 20209 Jun 2020 I have to start this review with this: This 👏🏻 should 👏🏻 not 👏🏻 be 👏🏻 happening 👏🏻 today. It's maddening and anger-inducing that this sort of thing is what…
Documentary… Movie #196 2020: Fittest On Earth (The Story of the 2015 Reebok CrossFit Games) (2016) 7 Jun 20205 Jun 2020 In this day and age - especially with gyms being closed and people being stuck inside their own houses baking cakes for hours every day - we all need a…
Documentary… Movie #195 2020: Knock Down the House (2019) 6 Jun 20204 Jun 2020 Now for something that isn't explicitly linked to the Black Lives Matter protests, but something that is absolutely relevant when you connect the dots. Knock Down the House is the…
Documentary… Movie #194 2020: 13th (2016) 6 Jun 20204 Jun 2020 Black Lives Matter. It's the phrase on everyone's lips, on everyone's Twitter feed, in everyone's protest. But how many of you are actively trying to educate yourself on the history…
Biographical… Movie #193 2020: Becoming (2020) 5 Jun 20203 Jun 2020 In the wake of the life of George Floyd being unjustly taken in the USA, it is time to inform and educate. Though I'd planned on a week of documentaries…
Drama… Movie #189 2020: Grey Gardens (2009) 3 Jun 202031 May 2020 Grey Gardens is one of those rare straight-to-TV movies that is far superior than it ever had the right to be. Based on the 1976 documentary of the same name,…
Classics… Movie #173 2020: A League Of Their Own (1992) 26 May 202023 May 2020 Thank GOD for this movie. After the shit show that was Vault (2019), I was all about ready to curl up into a ball and never watch a movie again.…
Action… Movie #172 2020: Vault (2019) 26 May 202023 May 2020 Who doesn't love a heist movie? There's just something so thrilling about them to 'normal' people who wouldn't even dream of doing things such as robbing banks. I mean, think…
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