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 →

11 May
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HOT PURSUIT Director: Anne Fletcher Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Sofia Vergara, Matthew Del Negro, Michael Mosley, Robert Kazinsky, Joaquín Cosio When you go into a movie with such low expectations and you come out laughing, does that make it a good movie? I continue to ask myself this question when I determine how low of a bar to set for the umpteenth buddy cop on the run type movie I’ve seen. In this version we have Reese Witherspoon as Officer Cooper, the inexperienced cop who’s in way over her head. She is a by the books, knows all the police codes, and only talks in policeRead More →

05 December
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THE GUILT TRIP Director: Anne Fletcher Starring: Seth Rogen, Barbra Streisand, Colin Hanks, Adam Scott, Kathy Najimy I never would have expected the divine Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen to star in a movie together. Those two are light years apart on the acting spectrum and are in such different generations of Hollywood, yet somehow the concept of them starring as mother and son somehow works. Andy Brewster (Rogen) is visiting his mother Joyce (Streisand) while he heads out on the road trying to promote and sell his product to big businesses like K-Mart and Costco. He invented an all natural cleaning product made fromRead More →