24 September
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TALENT REEL – Now Booking! Hey! I’m Paul McGuire Grimes, a Minneapolis-based film critic and entertainment reporter. I appear weekly on “Twin Cities Live” on KSTP-TV (ABC Minneapolis) and “The Colleen & Bradley Show” on My Talk 107.1 (KTMY-FM) I’m a member of the Critics Choice Association, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic. I review the latest movies, streaming series, limited series and interview actors, writers, and directors like Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, Lady Gaga, Julianne Moore, Michael B. Jordan, Nicole Kidman, Mahershala Ali, Jessica Chastain, Jamie Lee Curtis, the casts of Cobra Kai, Ted Lasso, The MorningRead More →

24 September
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BROS Interview with Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane Billy Eichner co-wrote and stars in the new romantic comedy Bros. No, it’s not about a bunch of dumb frat boy jocks. It’s an important film for him and the LGBTQ+ community. Universal Pictures heralds it as the first romatic comedy from a major motion picture studio about two gay men, written by a gay man, and featuring a principal cast that are all out queer actors. I sat down with Eichner and his romantic lead, Luke Mcafarlane, to talk about the importance of this kind of film and why casting out queer actors is vital forRead More →

24 September
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CATHERINE CALLED BIRDY Interviews – Lena Dunham, Bella Ramsey, Andrew Scott and Joe Alwyn Lena Dunham wrote and directed the funny new film, Catherine Called Birdy. It’s a period comedy but told with a YA bent to it. I sat down with Dunham and her cast Bella Ramsey, Andrew Scott, and Joe Alwyn to talk about their new film. Now in theaters and streaming on Prime Video October 7. If you like the video, make to sure click the thumbs up “Like” button, click SUBSCRIBE, and turn on those notifications for more reviews and interviews. You don’t want to miss out. I have some reallyRead More →

23 September
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DON’T WORRY DARLING Director: Olivia WildeStarring: Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Gemma Chan, Nick Kroll, Olivia Wilde, Sydney Chandler, Douglas Smith Olivia Wilde showed her strengths as a director with the coming-of-age film, Booksmart. Her sophomore effort, Don’t Worry Darling, suffers from a high concept she can’t quite match. She sets the film in a picture perfect 1950s community. Florence Pugh and Harry Styles star as married couple Alice and Jack Chambers. They live in a cul-de-sac neighborhood where all the men work for the same company, all leaving their driveways at the same time as they head out to work. Their wives waveRead More →

20 September
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New on 4K UltraHD: POLTERGEIST, THE LOST BOYS Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has two ’80s classics now on 4K Ultra HD just in time for spooky season! Both of these films spawned several sequels and remakes, but there’s nothing like the original. THE LOST BOYS (1987) Long before Joel Schumacher cranked out some John Grisham adaptations and gave the Batsuit nipples, he directed a campy teen vampire flick with The Lost Boys. I watched this for the first time a few years ago, and boy, it was a fun one. Not only does it feature The Coreys (Haim and Feldman), but also Jason Patric, KieferRead More →

19 September
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FALL MOVIE PREVIEW I shared my Fall Movie Preview on this week’s episode of Twin Cities Live on KSTP. While I would have ranked The Fabelmans as my #1 most anticipated movie, I had a hard time ranking the others and decided on chronological order. Plus, due to the time limitations, I only chose five movies. Here’s my segment with a look at: Hocus Pocus 2 (September 30) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (November 11) The Fabelmans (November 23) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (December 23) Babylon (December 25)Read More →

16 September
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CONFESS, FLETCH Director: Greg MottolaStarring: Jon Hamm, Lorenza Izzo, Marcia Gay Harden, Kyle MacLachlan, John Slattery, Roy Wood Jr, Annie Mumolo You may remember Chevy Chase playing I.M. Fletcher for two movies back in the ‘80s. Now Fletch is back with John Hamm in the title role in Confess, Fletch. Fletch is a freelance investigative journalist who arrives at a rental property to discover a dead body in the basement. The cops believe he’s the prime suspect but can’t quite pin it on him. Meanwhile, Fletch is out to prove his innocence and tries to find a connection to the kidnapping of a wealthy manRead More →

15 September
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SEE HOW THEY RUN Director: Tom GeorgeStarring: Adrian Brody, Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, David Oyelowo, Ruth Wilson, Harris Dickinson, and Shirley Henderson The murder mystery genre is hot right now with Knives Out, The AfterParty, and Kenneth Branagh’s remakes of Agatha Christie stories. Fans of the genre will love the new film See How They Run. It’s 1953 in London’s West End theater scene with Agatha Christie’s widely popular “The Mousetrap” wowing audiences. That is except for Adrian Brody’s character who serves as the unreliable narrator, Leo Kopernick, who states “It’s a whodunnit. You’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.” He’s been blacklisted in theRead More →

13 September
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THE FABELMANS Director: Steven SpielbergStarring: Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Judd Hirsch, Julia Butters, Oakes Fegley, Gabriel Bateman, Robin Bartlett One of the most highly anticipated movies of the fall is The Fabelmans from master director Steven Spielberg. It just had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and received rave reviews. Spielberg looks to have one of his most personal and emotional films to date as he’s drawing on his own childhood, family, and love of cinema for this memory piece. From the press release, “The film stars Gabriel LaBelle (The Predator, American Gigolo series) as 16-year-old aspiring filmmaker Sammy Fabelman; four-time Academy Award® nomineeRead More →

10 September
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ELVIS Director: Baz LuhrmannStarring: Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Helen Thomson, Richard Roxburgh, Kodi Smit-McPhee It takes an extravagant vision to capture the life and magic of Elvis Presley on screen. Director Baz Luhrmann embeds his flashy aura into Elvis Presley’s life to an eye-popping degree with Elvis. If you’ve seen Romeo + Juliet or Moulin Rouge, there’s no mistaking Luhrmann’s distinct vision within minutes of Elvis. The opening sequence practically mirrors that of Romeo+Juliet with a frenzied narration and Tom Hanks’ Colonel Tom Parker on his death bed recounting how he made Elvis famous and that there would be noRead More →