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Emily (Movie Review)

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When it comes to iconic female writers, Emily Brontë will forever hold a special place in the annals of literary history with 1847’s Wuthering Heights. Part Gothic novel, thick with Romanticism, it is a story that has survived the test of time, and now its ... Read More

Respect (Movie Review)

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From 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen) and 2019’s Rocketman (Elton John) to 2019’s The Dirt (Mötley Crüe) and 2021’s The United States vs. Billie Holiday (Billie Holiday), there has been no shortage of iconic musical figure biopics in recent years. In fact, music biopics have been ... Read More

Tesla (Movie Review)

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Ethan Hawke stars as genius inventor Nikola Tesla in the new biopic Tesla, which arrives to select theaters and On Demand on Friday, August 21, 2020, via IFC Films. A visionary in the fields of electrical and mechanical engineering, Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla (Hawke: Reality ... Read More

Rocketman (Movie Review)

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The film world has gotten its fair share of music-related biopics in the past few years. With movies like Netflix’s The Dirt based on Mötley Crüe and 2018’s Oscar-winning Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody making huge waves, it should come as no surprise that more films ... Read More

The Maestro (Movie Review)

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What do composers Andre Previn, Nelson Riddle, Jerry Goldsmith, Henry Mancini, John Williams, and Jerry Herst all have in common? At one point or another, they were all under the tutelage of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. In the new, dramatic biopic The Maestro, we are provided a ... Read More