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30 Jun

13 Minutes

Max SchindlerUncategorized
During Hitler's anniversary speech on November 8, 1939, a man is arrested on the Swiss border for possession of suspicious objects. Just minutes later, a bomb explodes in the Munich Burgerbraukeller, immediately behind the Fuhrer's lectern, killing eight people.The man is Georg Elser (Christian Friedel), a carpenter from Konigsbronn in the Swabia region.When a map of the site of the assault and detonators are found on him, he is sent to the head of the Criminal Police in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt,Arthur Nebe (Burghart Klaussner) and the head of the Gestapo, Heinrich Muller (Johann von Bulow) to be questioned. From them, Elser…
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29 Jun

Mali Blues

Max SchindlerUncategorized
Mali's music defines the country's cultural identity. Radical Islamists are threatening the musicians. Together with the stars of Malian Global Pop - Fatoumata Diawara, Bassekou Kouyate Master Soumy and Ahmed Ag Kaedi - we embark on a musical journey to Mali's agitated heart. Can their music reconcile the country?Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Jun 29, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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28 Jun

Pop Aye

Max SchindlerUncategorized
A successful Bangkok architect in the midst of a midlife crisis is reunited with an elephant he knew growing up. The two embark on a road trip to the man's childhood home in the idyllic Thai countryside. Along the way, they meet a colorful cast of characters that includes a pair of nonplussed local police officers, a forlorn transgender sex worker, and a mysteriously wise drifter. [Kino Lorber]Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Jun 28, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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26 Jun

The High Schooler's Guide To College Parties

Max SchindlerUncategorized
Skip It Director: Patrick JohnsonStarring: Nate Rubin, Kris Kiley, Brina PalenciaYear: 2015Your guess is as good as mine as to why American Pie worked when so many other coming-of-age sex comedies die a terrible death as soon as they hit the screen, some as soon as they hit the straight-to-DVD shelves. Maybe it was Eugene Levy, maybe it was the pie, who knows, but that film is now a classic, and in comparison, The High Schoolers Guide to College Parties will never be. Not only will it never become a classic, it will never be seen by more than the…
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25 Jun

Fifty Shades Darker; 20th Century Women; Patriots Day and more – review

Max SchindlerUncategorized
The second Fifty Shades is flawed but easy on the eye, while Annette Bening gives the performance of her life as a single mother in 70s LAI don’t believe in the term “guilty pleasure”: if a film, however ropey, gives me pleasure, I’m not ashamed to concede that something about it is working. Still, the delight I take in Fifty Shades Darker (Universal, 18) pushes this attitude to its limit. The first film based on EL James’s potpourri-porn novels was surprisingly sly, pruning and embellishing the author’s lilac prose with something like irony. This follow-up, directed in gaudily gilded fashion…
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25 Jun

Prime Suspect: Tennison (PBS)

Max SchindlerUncategorized
The prequel to Prime Suspect is set in 1973 where 22-year-old Jane Tennison (Stefanie Martini) begins working on on her first murder case as a WPC (woman police constable) with Greater London's Metropolitan police. [Aired between 2 March 2017 and 6 April 2017 in the UK under the name Prime Suspect 1973]Premieres Jun 25, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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23 Jun

World of Henry Orient

Max SchindlerUncategorized
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or LessYoung female friendship portrayed perfectlyReviewer's Bias*Loves: The look of classic cinema, Peter SellersLikes: Positive female relationshipsDislikes: Rich peopleHates: Running into old casual racism, adulterersThe MovieGeorge Roy Hill, who would go on to win an Oscar for The Sting, while directing a string of well-regarded films including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the iconic Slap Shot, started off his feature-film career with stage adaptations before tackling Nora Johnson's novel, The World of Henry Orient. Obviously his earlier work, including his time with "Playhouse 90" and "Kraft Theater", set him up well to tackle…
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23 Jun

GLOW (Netflix)

Max SchindlerUncategorized
Set in 1985 Los Angeles, struggling actress Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie) ends up on a women wrestling TV show in this comedy created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch that was inspired by the 1980s professional wrestling league.Premieres Jun 23, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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23 Jun

The Big Sick

Max SchindlerUncategorized
Based on the real-life courtship between Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, The Big Sick tells the story of Pakistan-born aspiring comedian Kumail (Nanjiani), who connects with grad student Emily (Zoe Kazan) after one of his standup sets. However, what they thought would be just a one-night stand blossoms into the real thing, which complicates the life that is expected of Kumail by his traditional Muslim parents. When Emily is beset with a mystery illness, it forces Kumail to navigate the medical crisis with her parents, Beth and Terry (Holly Hunter and Ray Romano) who he's never met, while dealing…
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23 Jun

Nowhere to Hide

Max SchindlerUncategorized
Nowhere to Hide follows male nurse Nori Sharif through five years of dramatic change, providing unique access into one of the world?s most dangerous and inaccessible areas ? the ?triangle of death? in central Iraq. Initially filming stories of survivors and the hope of a better future as American and Coalition troops retreat from Iraq in 2011, conflicts continue with Iraqi militias, and the population flees accompanied by most of the hospital staff. Nori is one of the few who remain. When ISIS advances on Jalawla in 2014 and takes over the city, he too must flee with his family…
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22 Jun

The Gong Show (2017) (ABC)

Max SchindlerUncategorized
The reboot of the 1970s show is hosted by a British comic named Tommy Maitland (widely reported to be Mike Meyers) with a rotating panel of celebrity judges that include Jack Black, Dana Carvey, Will Forte and Zach Galifianakis.Premieres Jun 22, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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22 Jun

The Mist (2017) (Spike TV)

Max SchindlerUncategorized
Many people in the small town of Bridgeville, Maine are at odds with one another when a strange mist comes and forces them to work together to find their love ones and survive in this series based on Stephen King's novella.Premieres Jun 22, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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19 Jun

Loch Ness (Acorn TV)

Max SchindlerUncategorized
The grisly discovery of a body in the loch near the small Scottish town of Lochanfoy is the first murder case for Detective Annie Cathro (Laura Fraser) and the case brings in DCI Lauren Quigley (Siobhan Finneran) from Glasgow in this British crime drama written by Stephen Brady. [Titled The Loch when aired on ITV.]Premieres Jun 19, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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18 Jun

Perry Mason: The Complete Series

Max SchindlerUncategorized
Highly Recommended The Show: A staple of syndicated television in the half-century since it originally went off the air, Perry Mason is the kind of show that is so firmly ingrained in pop culture that it is easy to take it for granted. With its formulaic mystery-story approach, it can be considered influential upon any number of courtroom and crime shows, for better and worse, and it's hard to imagine a more iconic fictional lawyer than Raymond Burr's stoic, sly, and sometimes streetwise L.A. attorney.The original run of Perry Mason started in 1957 and ended after nine seasons in 1966.…
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18 Jun

Moonlight; The Lego Batman Movie; Harmonium; The Exterminating Angel and more – review

Max SchindlerUncategorized
A repeat viewing enhances Barry Jenkins’s masterly Oscar-winning drama about a gay man growing up in Miami, while on a lighter note, Chris McKay’s Dark Knight parody almost matches up to its predecessorSeveral months on from that chaotic moment at the Oscar podium, the topsy-turvy best picture triumph of Moonlight (Altitude, 15) seems no less astonishing in retrospect. In a sense, Barry Jenkins’s shimmering, trisected portrait of a young African American man’s developing sexuality had to win in unprecedented circumstances, because nothing like it had ever scaled that summit of mainstream acclaim. Still, we should resist the urge to turn…
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16 Jun

Breast Milk

Max SchindlerUncategorized
Highly Recommended The Movie:So before diving into Breastmilk, a couple of cards on the table; as the father of a 7 month old and in a similar situation as our own Olie Coen, I had a natural curiosity as to what the film was about, and whether it was a case of advocating the benefits of breast milk and the mammoth industry surrounding breastfeeding, but it was not like that at all, and seems to mirror a situation that our family is experiencing.Over a three-year period, director Dana Ben-Ari checks in periodically with several families who are about to have…
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16 Jun

Cardinal (Hulu)

Max SchindlerUncategorized
Detective John Cardinal (Billy Campbell) was originally removed from a missing child case but is reassigned with a new partner, Detective Lise Delorme (Karine Vanasse), when the 13-year-old's body is found in this Canadian crime drama based on the mystery novels by Giles Blunt.Premieres Jun 16, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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16 Jun

Lost in Paris

Max SchindlerUncategorized
When Fiona?s (Fiona Gordon) orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her 88-year-old Aunt Martha (Emmanuelle Riva) who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters, she encounters Dom (Dominique Abe), the affable, but annoying tramp who just won?t leave her alone.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Jun 16, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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