movie review

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• 12-28-2018
  

  Mary, Queen of Scots, Loses Her Head and the Audience, Too

  by Bruce Chadwick

  What on earth is going on in this movie?

• 
• 11-3-18
  

  Freddie Mercury: The Movie

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Director Bryan Singer has done a superb job of keeping the Freddie Mercury personal story alive and strong within the overall story of the group and all of that majestic music.

• 
• 9-23-18
  

  Lizzie Borden Took an Axe…

  by Bruce Chadwick

  The poem is better than the movie.

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• 6-18-18
  

  Review of "Ocean's 8" – And Yes, There's a Reason to Review It on HNN

  by Bruce Chadwick

  "Ocean’s 8" is a good film but leaves out the history behind a central event:  the Met's Gala ball.

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• 10-23-17
  

  Black vs. White in a Ritzy 1941 Connecticut Town

  by Bruce Chadwick

  A review of the new movie about Thurgood Marshall's defense of a black man accused of rape in Connecticut in 1941.

• 
• 10-2-17
  

  Billie Jean King Beats Bobby Riggs Once Again in Tennis Battle of the Sexes

  by Bruce Chadwick

  "Battle of the Sexes" is as much fun as it is sports history and the history of the women’s lib movement in the early ‘70s.

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• 8-15-17
  

  How Accurate Is “Dunkirk”?

  by Robert Huddleston

  The motion picture is an excellent opening chapter to the Second World War.

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• 7-23-17
  

  Yes, You Should See the Movie About Dunkirk

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Despite weaknesses, "Dunkirk" is a stunning, new and different kind of war movie.

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• 6-20-17
  

  How's that New Movie About Slain Rapper Tupac Shakur?

  by Bruce Chadwick

  "All Eyez on Me" is a fierce, vivid look at rap music history in the 1990s and the way that Tupac and his music shook up a nation of young people in search of a new world and a new star to lead them to it.

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• 6-19-17
  

  Deep Soap Opera and Villainess (?) in 1830s England

  by Bruce Chadwick

  "My Cousin Rachel" is a delicious romantic puzzle and a good old English family squabbles tale, and DuMaurier fans will love it.

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• 1-20-17
  

  1950s Racial Turmoil in Pittsburgh Sizzles in "Fences"

  by Bruce Chadwick

  "Fences" is a deep and rich look at life and race in Pittsburgh, and America, in the '50s. It's a home run of a play about a guy who continually struck out once the game on the field was over.

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• 5-2-14
  

  Godzilla and the Atomic Bomb Controversy Roars Back after Sixty Years in Hollywood’s Closet

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Godzilla drags all of the politics of the Cold War with him as he rumbles around Tokyo, knocking down everything in sight, in this re-issued and wonderful 1954 movie.