Jake Gyllenhaal stars as an attorney accused of murdering his colleague in the Apple TV+ series Presumed Innocent. Logan and Henry are back to read the verdict in their review of the eight-episode series.
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“A horrific murder upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney’s’ office when one of its own is suspected of the crime.”
by Kevin Muller
From May to December, the Oscar race heats up with nominations becoming the main topic of conversation amongst film geeks. In recent years, the winner of the coveted Palm D’Ore, or Best Picture, at Cannes Film Festival, it will solidify a Best Picture nomination. In 2023, Peter Sarsgaard won the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival, which made him the frontrunner to be nominated for an Oscar. Unfortunately, by the time Oscar season came around, his win became a memory, no pun intended, in the minds of the academy. This isn’t the first time that a great performance has gotten overlooked. Plus, not only do we get to see his work, but the effort of Jessica Chastain. This was the first film, post her Oscar win, that she starred in. How good are they here? Was Sarsgaard robbed? Is the film any good?
It’s the #31DaysofHorror here at Cinephellas, and that means another killer movie review! The killer orphan Esther gets an origin story in this bloody prequel to 2009’s Orphan’, titled Orphan: First Kill.
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“After orchestrating a brilliant escape from an Estonian psychiatric facility, Esther travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy family.”
Dopesick takes at the opioid crisis that is plaguing the nation from the perspectives of the addicts, doctors, pharmaceutical companies and drug reps directly involved. Watch our review of the Hulu mini-series that stars Michael Keaton.
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“The series takes viewers to the epicenter of America’s struggle with opioid addiction, from the boardrooms of Purdue Pharma, to a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA.”
“Agnieszka Holland’s thriller, set on the eve of WWII, sees Hitler’s rise to power and Stalin’s Soviet propaganda machine pushing their “utopia” to the Western world. Meanwhile an ambitious young journalist, Gareth Jones (Norton) travels to Moscow to uncover the truth behind the propaganda, but then gets a tip that could expose an international conspiracy, one that could cost him and his informant their lives. Jones goes on a life-or-death journey to uncover the truth behind the façade that would later inspire George Orwell’s seminal book Animal Farm.”
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