Tuesday, November 7, 2017
The Hollow Child (PDXFF 2017) - Movie Review
The Movie: The Hollow Child
The Director: Jeremy Lutter
The Cast: Jessica McLeod, Hannah Cheramy, John Emmet Tracy, Jana Mitsoula, Genevieve Buechner, Connor Stanhope, Johannah Newmarch
The Story: A troubled foster teen, Samantha, works to expose a dangerous supernatural impostor in her new family and rescue her foster sister.
Sunday, November 5, 2017
Thor: Ragnarok - Movie Review
The Movie: Thor: Ragnarok
The Director: Taika Waititi
The Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Tessa Thompson, Mark Ruffalo, Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Karl Urban, Anthony Hopkins, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tadanobu Asano, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi
The Story: This is what Thor and Hulk were doing during Civil War.
Saturday, November 4, 2017
Blue (HIFF 2017) - Documentary Review
The Documentary: Blue
The Director: Karina Holden
The Story: Blue is a provocative journey into the ocean realm, witnessing this critical moment in time when the marine world is on a precipice.
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2017 Movie Reviews
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Documentary
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HIFF 2017
Brown's Canyon (PDXFF 2017) - Movie Review
The Movie: Brown's Canyon
The Director: John Helde
The Cast: Lisa Every, Eric Jordan, Carter Rodriquez, Jenn Ruzumna, Sara Rucker Thiessen
The Story: Two self-help gurus plan to resuscitate their careers by co-hosting a women’s mindfulness retreat in the Utah wilderness. When surprise guests, a mudslide and a bowl of spoiled chili thwart their plans, their own lives unravel over one awkward weekend.
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2017 Movie Reviews
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PDXFF 2017
Thursday, November 2, 2017
The VelociPastor (PDXFF 2017) - Movie Review
The Movie: The VelociPastor
The Director: Brendan Steere
The Cast: Gregory James Cohan, Alyssa Kempinski, Fernando Pacheco De Castro, Jesse Turits, Daniel Steere,
The Story: After losing his parents, a priest travels to China, where he inherits a mysterious ability that allows him to turn into a dinosaur. At first horrified by this new power, a hooker convinces him to use it to fight crime. And ninjas.
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Wol-ha: Very Bad Moon Rising (PDXFF 2017) - Movie Review
The Movie: Wol-ha: Very Bad Moon Rising
The Director: Oh In-chun
The Story: Commissioned by a mysterious international collector with a large sum of money, a party makes an expedition to find “the tomb of Kisaeng Wolhyang”.
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2017 Movie Reviews
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Hirota Masami
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PDXFF 2017
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Thank You for Your Service - Movie Review
The Movie: Thank You for Your Service
Director: Jason Hall
The Cast: Miles Teller, Haley Bennett, Joe Cole, Beaulah Koale, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Amy Schumer, Erin Darke, Scott Haze, Omar J. Dorsey, Brad Beyer
The Story: A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
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2017 Movie Reviews
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Amy Schumer
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Beulah Koale
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Erin Darke
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Haley Bennett
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Han Soto
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Kate Lyn Sheil
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Miles Teller
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Omar J. Dorsey
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Scott Haze
Only the Brave - Movie Review
The Movie: Only the Brave
The Director: Joseph Kosinski (Oblivion)
The Cast: Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Connelly,
The Story: Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters risk everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire.
Saturday, October 28, 2017
TwoOhSix Picks - 2017 Hawaii International Film Festival
Aloha! I am very excited to once again be providing press coverage for the Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF) which features a very unique perspective on film making while focusing on movies that come from all over the world with a heavy influence from the Asia/Pacific regions. After perusing this year's festival schedule, I have hand picked a selection of the films that I personally would not want to miss along with a few I have already seen and would highly recommend.
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HIFF 2017
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Annabelle: Creation - Movie Review
The Movie: Annebelle: Creation
The Director: David F. Sandberg (Lights Out)
The Cast: Anthony LaPaglia, Samara Lee, Miranda Otto, Lulu Wilson, Talitha Eliana Bateman, Stephanie Sigman
The Story: 12 years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, where they soon become the target of the doll maker's possessed creation.
Monday, October 23, 2017
TwoOhSix Picks - 2017 Portland Film Festival
The 2017 Portland Film Festival, one of the "coolest film festivals in the world", is back with a slate of films, events, workshops, and parties that any film fan would fall in love with. After taking a look at this year's lineup, I've put together a selection of movies that have caught my attention and feature genres that I love to watch.
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PDXFF 2017
Sunday, October 22, 2017
TwoOhSix Picks - Amplify Her at the SIFF Uptown
On Thursday, October 26th, Seattle's very own SIFF Uptown Cinema will be hosting the "Purple Carpet Tour" which features Amplify Her, a mostly local and all female made documentary, graphic novel, and animated motion comic series that explores the rise of female artists in the electronic music scene. It is a collaborative exploration of feminism within corporate culture and shows how women can thrive when creativity and passion is given an opportunity to push through industry constraints.
Award-winning filmmakers Ian MacKenzie and Nicole Sorochan |
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Geostorm - Movie Review
The Movie: Geostorm
The Director: Dean Devlin
The Cast: Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Alexandra Maria Lara, Daniel Wu, Eugenio Derbez, Amr Waked, Adepero Oduye, Andy Garcia, Ed Harris, Zazie Beets
The Story: Disaster threatens the planet after weather controlling satellites are compromised.
Friday, October 20, 2017
Battle of the Sexes - Movie Review
The Movie: Battle of the Sexes
The Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
The Cast: Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough, Natalie Morales, Sarah Silverman, Bill Pullman, Alan Cumming, Elisabeth Shue, Fred Armisen, Eric Christian Olson, Martha MacIsaac, Jessica McNamee, Lewis Pullman, Chris Parnell
The Story: The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Marshall - Movie Review
The Movie: Marshall
The Director: Reginald Hudlin
The Cast: Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Dan Stevens, Kate Hudson, Sterling K. Brown, James Cromwell, Keesha Sharp, Roger Guenveur Smith , John Magaro, Ahna O'Reilly
The Story: About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Trailers Are Cool: Star Wars, New Mutants, Thor, Pacific Rim, Black Panther
The last couple weeks has seem some fantastic trailer releases and I can't stop watching them! Okay, so I stopped long enough to compile there here so we can all watch them continuously for hours on end. Which trailer is your favorite? Which movie are you most looking forward to?
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Pacific Rim
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Star Wars
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The Avengers
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Trailers
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Happy Death Day - Movie Review
The Movie: Happy Death Day
The Director: Christopher Landon (Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones)
The Cast: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Charles Aitken, Laura Clifton, Jason Bayle, Rob Mello
The Story: Mean spirited sorority girl must relive the same day over and over until she solves her own murder.
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2017 Movie Reviews
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Israel Broussard
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Jason Bayle
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Jessica Rothe
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Phi Vu
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Rob Mello
Sunday, October 15, 2017
The Foreigner - Movie Review
The Movie: The Foreigner
The Director: Martin Campbell (Casino Royale)
The Cast: Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan, Rufus Jones, Katie Leung, Charlie Murphy, Orla Brady, Lia Williams, Michael McElhatton, David Pearse, Tao Liu, Ray Fearon, Rory Fleck Byrne
The Story: A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat-and-mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities.
Blade Runner 2049 - Movie Review
The Movie: Blade Runner 2049
The Director: Denis Villeneuve (Arrival)
The Cast: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Robin Wright, Ana de Armas, David Dastmalchian, Jared Leto, Mackenzie Davis, Dave Bautista, Lennie James, Carla Juri
The Story: A young blade runner's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.
Friday, October 13, 2017
Wasted! The Story of Food Waste - Documentary Review
The Movie: Wasted! The Story of Food Waste
The Directors: Anna Chai, Nari Kye
The Story: Through the eyes of famous chefs, audiences will see how they make the most of every kind of food, transforming what most people consider scraps into incredible dishes that create a more secure food system.
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2017 Movie Reviews
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Documentary
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
American Made - Movie Review
The Movie: American Made
The Director: Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow)
The Cast: Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Jesse Plemons, Caleb Landry Jones, Alejandro Edda, Benito Martinez
The Story: The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.
Monday, October 9, 2017
Better Watch Out (SIFF 2017) - Movie Review
The Movie: Better Watch Out
The Director: Chris Peckover
The Cast: Olivia DeJong, Levi Miller, Dacre Montgomery, Virginia Madsen, Patrick Warburton
The Story: On a quiet suburban street, a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from intruders, only to discover it's far from a normal home invasion.
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