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Runner goes the distance
Both the grim and bright sides of humanity show up in the documentary Runner about one of Sudan’s Lost Boys war victims. Avid running...
Robin Holabird
Jul 3, 20202 min read
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Florence, Italy joins unlikely duo
No one should hear the names Michael Bay and Hannah Gadsby in the same sentence, but streaming changes that; both their newest projects...
Robin Holabird
Jun 13, 20202 min read
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Ray of light with Vast of Night
With a nod to the old Twilight Zone series, a new movie called The Vast of Night takes viewers back to the nineteen-fifties through a...
Robin Holabird
Jun 7, 20202 min read
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Half of It combines high school and Cyrano
In the tradition of Clueless and The Easy A, the new Netflix release called The Half of It transfers a classic piece of literature to a...
Robin Holabird
May 29, 20202 min read
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Lovebirds & Greece entertain at home
Two projects originally slated for theaters probably get better play with their recent Covid induced straight-to-streaming release rather...
Robin Holabird
May 29, 20202 min read
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"Wishtory" for Hollywood
With a track record that includes Glee, American Horror Story, and Feud, Ryan Murphy puts his own fantasy spin on movie history in his...
Robin Holabird
May 15, 20202 min read
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Bosch matters
Binge watching sent me armchair traveling to Los Angeles for one of my favorite mystery series on both screen and book, Bosch. Amazon’s...
Robin Holabird
May 11, 20202 min read
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Reaptown and Infernum on track at Nevada Northern Railway Museum
Last movie I saw in a theater—that question pops up a lot on various social media sites as we all reflect on things we used to do so...
Robin Holabird
Apr 20, 20202 min read
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Emma* *available now https://twitter.com/FocusFeatures
To rework the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a woman with the good fortune to...
Robin Holabird
Mar 18, 20202 min read
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The Invisible Man*
With a current culture reboot, The Invisible Man more accurately qualifies as “The Invisible Man’s Girlfriend” by taking a twist on the...
Robin Holabird
Mar 6, 20202 min read
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Downhill
Expectations get caught in an avalanche and slide away with the so-called comedy Downhill. Instead of the broad, character-driven laughs...
Robin Holabird
Feb 27, 20202 min read
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Call of the Wild runs free with Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford fights the need for CGI computer effects with Call of the Wild when he takes off his shirt and shows off muscles popping in...
Robin Holabird
Feb 27, 20202 min read
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Oscars so Red
When Academy members chose their lineup of best movies from 2019, they faced another round of “Oscars so White” criticism—but not when it...
Robin Holabird
Feb 9, 20203 min read
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Oscar thoughts (Part 1)
With the the two big Oscar Best Picture predictors coming out from the producers and screen actors guilds, I'm thrilled to see SAG push...
Robin Holabird
Jan 22, 20201 min read
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Like a Boss
Review 2020 Like a Boss January 17 Like a Boss gets dinged badly in review aggregate sites like Rotten Tomatoes because it falls in that...
Robin Holabird
Jan 14, 20202 min read
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Just Mercy
Review 2020 Just Mercy Jan. 10 With moral righteousness on its side, the movie Just Mercy wins its main battle by showing how racism...
Robin Holabird
Jan 10, 20202 min read
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1917-Finally opening in Reno!
Review 2020 1917 January Many family members hear the proverbial quote “war stories,” but Academy Award winning director Sam Mendes...
Robin Holabird
Jan 10, 20202 min read
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TOP TEN LISTS
Like Santa Clause, movie critics spend much of December checking their lists. Best film. Best horror film. Best Comedy film. Ten best...
Robin Holabird
Jan 9, 20202 min read
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Judy
Judy Garland, the screen legend who never won an Oscar, becomes awards bait in the new biopic about her. The movie Judy lets Renee...
Robin Holabird
Dec 27, 20192 min read
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Brittany Runs a Marathon
Hey, guess what happens in the movie "Brittany Runs a Marathon?" Yup, a woman named Brittany eventually laces up her shoes and hits a...
Robin Holabird
Dec 25, 20192 min read
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