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Ballerina: a cliched return to the world of John Wick

Posted by By Sophie Montecalvo June 9, 2025Posted inMovie Monday
While the miniseries The Continental showed us the backstory of Winston Scott, Ballerina is the more novel spin-off of the John Wick franchise, focusing on an entirely new character in…
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Disobedience: a clash of Jewish culture and queer identity

Posted by By Sophie Montecalvo April 7, 2025Posted inMovie Monday
There's nothing quite like watching a sapphic movie, enjoying it, checking out the source material, and realizing said sapphic-ness was not quite as heavy (or even present in the first…
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Mickey 17 & The Monkey: one actor, two characters

Posted by By Sophie Montecalvo March 24, 2025Posted inMovie Monday
After my best friend and I made a double feature out of Mickey 17 and The Monkey, I commented about the unintentional parallel between the movies: they both featured a…
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Mufasa: entertaining nostalgia bait with touches of heart

Posted by By Sophie Montecalvo February 10, 2025Posted inMovie Monday
I stand by the fact that if OUAT had done a Lion King episode, Mufasa would be Scar’s tragic backstory.  (Or, as I was so fond of calling those villain-origin…
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12 Angry Men endures, from the 50’s to the 90’s

Posted by By Sophie Montecalvo January 27, 2025Posted inMovie Monday
I recently watched 1957’s 12 Angry Men with a friend who recommended it.  She said, “You don’t expect a movie about twelve guys arguing in a room to be so…
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Does <i>Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes</i> live up to its predecessors?

Does Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes live up to its predecessors?

Posted by By Sophie Montecalvo May 20, 2024Posted inMovie Monday
Ah, Planet of the Apes.  We’ve come from latex masks and low(er) budgets to seamlessly CGI’ed chimpanzees and gorgeous, transporting settings.  But has the quality of storytelling remained the same?…
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Netflix’s Nimona elevates the themes of Stevenson’s heroine

Netflix’s Nimona elevates the themes of Stevenson’s heroine

Posted by By Sophie Montecalvo December 11, 2023Posted inMovie Monday
I first read ND Stevenson’s Nimona back in high school, a year or two after it was published in 2015.  (Published by HarperCollins, that is - it began as a…
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The Old Guard: Movie Review

The Old Guard: Movie Review

Posted by By Sophie Montecalvo April 10, 2023Posted inMovie Monday
Once, when I was a kid, I saw a brief glimpse of a movie playing on the hotel TV.  Flipping through channels, I paused there.  It would be years before…
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