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AVON
2023 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS* * * *
We love short films!
We get to see them twice a year: At the RI International Film Festival in August, and at the Avon at Oscar time in …
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3/14/23
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WARWICK SHOWCASE
CREED III * * * ½(A Decent Boxing Move)
We’ve seen enough boxing movies to last a lifetime, but this one has good acting, a bit of compassion, and a …
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3/7/23
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WARWICK SHOWCASE
COCAINE BEAR* * ½ Based(Loosely) on True Story
Take a true story: Cocaine dumped off plane into National Forest in Georgia. The body count grows Bear eats and goes …
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2/28/23
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WARWICK SHOWCASE
ANT-MAN & THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA(Marvel Comics Sequel)
Where’s the rating?
If I were a Marvel Comics fan and had seen the two previous movies in the series and …
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2/21/23
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WARWICK SHOWCASE
MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCE* * ½Erotic, feminist, silly sequel
Channing Tatum has his third shot playing the male stripper/lap dancer, only this time he has retired to …
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2/14/23
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WARWICK SHOWCASE
’80 FOR BRADY * *(Four Seniors and the GOAT)
There he was. On the large screen and a smaller one. The seats were filled at the first showing of …
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2/7/23
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WARWICK SHOWCASE
MAYBE I DO * * ½(Dumb RomCom)
Grace (Diane Keaton) and Sam (William H. Macy), two lonely people in unhappy marriages meet and spend a happy platonic …
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1/31/23
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NETFLIX
DOG GONE* * *(Family Film)
I grew up with Timmy and “Lassie Come Home.”
“Dog Gone” requires the same handkerchief.
Rob Lowe plays a successful businessman …
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1/24/23
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NETFLIX
KALEIDESCOPE* * * ½(Clever Heist Movie)
Giancarlo Esposito stars as the leader of a mixed-bag gang he recruited to rob his former partner, no arch enemy, of $7 million in bonds …
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1/17/23
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WARWICK SHOWCASE
A MAN CALLED OTTO* * *
Call it sentimental. Call it schmaltz.
“A Man Called Otto” tugs at your heartstrings as we gain sympathy for the grump of the …
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1/10/23
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WARWICK SHOWCASE
THE WHALE* * * * * (Joyce) * * * * ½ (Don)Psychological Drama
Brendan Fraser stars as Charlie, a reclusive, 600-pound internet writing teacher with all kinds …
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12/27/22
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The Newport Film Festival is branching out through Rhode Island, screening the Cannes and Sundance Festivals Best Documentary at Warwick’s Gamm Theatre last week.
“All That …
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By Don Fowler
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12/21/22
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