12 December
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THE TWO POPES Director: Fernando Meirelles Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins, Juan Minujín The Two Popes is an unconventional biopic for Cardinal Jorge Bergolio (Pryce) who would go on to become Pope Francis. The story is structured as a conversation between Bergolio as he shares his life story to Pope Benedict XVI (Hopkins) Bergolio is looking to retire but Pope Benedict is questioning his motives. Both are thought of to be men of God, yet come at their ministry in the Catholic Church from two very different ways. It’s becomes fascinating conversation from the ultra-conservative Pope Benedict and the liberal Cardinal Bergolio. It opens inRead More →

30 June
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IN CONVERSATION: DAVID HARBOUR FROM “STRANGER THINGS 3” If you look at David Harbour’s resume, you will recognize films like Brokeback Mountain and Quantum of Solace or even television hits like The Newsroom. His biggest and most high profile role is as the gruff, but lovable, Chief Jim Hopper on Netflix’s Stranger Things. It took pop culture by storm with its nostalgic look back at the 1980s creature features from Steven Spielberg and Stephen King to The Goonies and Dungeons and Dragons. Season 3 premieres July 4 on Netflix, which is perfect as the kids in Hawkins, Indiana celebrate the summer and a time forRead More →

14 May
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WINE COUNTRY Director: Amy PoehlerStarring: Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph, Paula Pell, Emily Spivey, Tina Fey, Jason Schwartzman, Cherry Jones Rebecca (Dratch) is turning fifty but doesn’t want to make a big deal out of it. Her friend, Abby (Poehler), convinces her that a girls trip to wine country in the Napa Valley would make for the perfect getaway. They gather four of their other best friends to head out for the weekend. They all met back in the day as waitresses in a pizza joint in Chicago. They’ve since moved on to different states, careers, and lives and rarely get togetherRead More →

08 May
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EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL, AND VILE Director: Joe BerlingerStarring: Zac Efron, Lily Collins, Jim Parson, John Malkovich, Haley Joel Osment, Angela Sarafyan Zac Efron takes his career in a bold turn by starring as notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. The film picks up the night he met his girlfriend, Liz (Collins), in a dive bar. He’s charming and a smoother talker and convinces her to spend the night together back at her house. He’s studying law, while she is a single mother with a young baby girl. He appears to be loving and caring, but that happens to be just one side of him. TheRead More →

25 April
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HOMECOMING Director: BeyoncéStarring: Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Solange, Michelle Williams, Kelly Rowland It’s one thing to go to enjoy a concert and sing along to your favorite artists’ songs. It’s another thing to feel like you’re in the middle of a movement. That’s how it must have felt to be in the audience watching Beyoncé and crew of 200 musicians, dancers, and backup singers take over Coachella in 2018. Homecoming is is a concert documentary directed by Beyoncé of her two performances and is now streaming on Netflix. For the first time, we get to be up front and center to her entire divine performance as wellRead More →

19 April
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UNICORN STORE Director: Brie LarsonStarring: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Mamoudou Athie, Joan Cusack, Bradley Whitford Kit (Larson) is in the transition period of her life where she’s having a hard time growing up. She’s a painter who expresses her opinions in a variety of creative ways but she’s going nowhere with it and failing out of school. She spends far too much time sulking around her parents’ house. They’re losing faith in her ability to grow up, but she wants to prove them wrong by getting a temp job in a corporate setting. As you can imagine, Kit doesn’t feel like she really fitsRead More →

14 February
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FYRE Director: Chris SmithStarring: Billy McFarland, Ja Rule, Grant Margolin, Andy King, Brett Kincaid, James Ohliger, Samuel Krost, Mdavid Low The Fyre Festival was marketed to be the next great big music festival for the millennial generation. It was going to be held on an island once owned by Pablo Escobar. His notoriety combined with beautiful people, booze, musicians, yachts, and villas sounds too good to be true but people went for it. The idea sprung from Billy McFarland, the entrepreneur of Fyre and Magnisus who partnered with hip hop artist Ja Rule. Word about the Fyre Festival spread to models, musicians, and social influencersRead More →

17 January
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PODCAST EPISODE 41: AND THE AWARD GOES TO…NETFLIX! I have a brand new episode of my podcast “Paul’s Trip to the Movies” up on PodcastOne and My Talk 1071’s website or wherever you get your podcasts. Netflix has made a name for itself in the world of streaming television, but we’ve seen an increase lately with their original movies like “Roma”, “Bird Box”, and “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”, just to name a few. Host Paul McGuire Grimes and guests Niles Schwartz and Eric Henderson break down some of their new releases, their desire for some award consideration, and discuss how streaming platforms are changing the industryRead More →

08 January
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DUMPLIN’ Director: Anne FletcherStarring:  Danielle Macdonald, Jennifer Aniston, Odeya Rush, Maddie Baillio, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Harold Perrineau, Ginger Minj, Luke Benward In the new Netflix movie Dumplin‘, Danielle Macdonald plays Willowdean, the daughter of a former beauty queen. She’s played by Jennifer Aniston and now runs the Miss Teen Bluebonnet pageant. Willowdean was raised by her aunt and has never felt welcome in her mother’s world of pageants. She feels a bit dejected but signs up for the pageant to spite her mother and show the injustices that come with beauty pageants. Here’s my reviewRead More →

22 December
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BIRD BOX Director: Susanne BierStarring:  Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich, Jacki Weaver, Machine Gun Kelly, Sarah Paulson, Danielle Macdonald, Tom Hollander Sandra Bullock stars in the suspenseful new film, Bird Box, now streaming on Netflix. An unnatural force wipes out a majority of the human population. Bullock stars as Malorie, who along with two kids, have to float down river to find safety. The catch is that they have to do it blindfolded. The less you know about this movie the better! Here’s my reviewRead More →