In the prologue of the Disney animated film Strange World, brave adventurer Jaeger Clade and his 15-year-old son Searcher are attempting to cross the seemingly uncrossable mountains that surround their home of Avalonia.  Searcher discovers an amazing plant that seems to generate elec

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Not long after watching and enjoying See How They Run, I moved on to another period-piece murder mystery film with a sprawling all-star cast that was released towards the end of 2022: David O. Russell’s Amsterdam. Christian Bale and John David Washington star in the film as Burt

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At last — Ted Lasso season three is coming!! Here’s the Super Bowl trailer for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: This is a great-looking trailer for Air, the film reuniting Ben Affleck and Matt Damon on-screen: I’m thrilled that Ben Affleck is back directing.  

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Sidney is a documentary on Apple TV about the great Sidney Poitier.  It’s directed by Reginald Hudlin (who has directed many films including House Party and Boomerang, and who also is a talented comic book writer) and executive produced by Oprah Winfrey. The film traces Mr. Poi

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Set in London in 1953, See How They Run tells the story of a murder that rocks the production of the Agatha Christie murder mystery play The Mousetrap.  Grizzled Scotland Yard Inspector Stoppard (Sam Rockwell) and the young, eager Constable Stalker (Saoirse Ronan) are tasked with in

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In the Pixar film Lightyear, Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear and his partner Alisha Hawthorne are assigned to shepherd a group of colonists to the planet that will serve as their new home.  But when their ship crash-lands on an unknown, hostile world, Buzz devotes himself to finding a wa

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