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Bowie: Moonage Daydream

  • Title: Bowie: Moonage Daydream
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The first documentary to be authorized by David Bowie‘s estate, Moonage Daydream is filled with clips, performances, interviews, and both public and private moments from Bowie’s life chronicling his career. While making use of a tremendous amount of archival footage, it touches on all aspects of the artist’s life championing his experimental nature without ever needing to rely on talking heads to explain specifics instead allowing Bowie’s own words to do all the heavy lifting.

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I Quickly Grew Disenchanted With This Sequel

  • Title: Disenchanted
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The follow-up to 2007’s Enchanted is the kind of middling Disney sequel you often expect from the studio outside of its Pixar theatrical properties. Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey return as Gisele and Robert moving to the suburbs with teen daughter Morgan (now played by Gabriella Baldacchino) and baby Sofia. Despite her hopes of finding a magical new start in the suburbs, the family struggles in their new home leading to Gisele to make a wish turning the entire town into a fairy tale.

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Bad Axe

  • Title: Bad Axe
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Near the beginning of the pandemic filmmaker David Siev, who, like his siblings, moved back home to support his parents and the family business they started decades earlier, begins to record a film which will grow into a portrait of the American experience of an Asian-American family through their struggles and triumphs of 2020 in the decidedly white Conservative small town of Bad Axe, Michigan. 

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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

  • Title: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
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Based on the shorts of the same name, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a weird, and heartwarming, little film about a talking shell named Marcel (Jenny Slate) who has been separated from the rest of his family other than his grandmother (Isabella Rossellini). A recently separated documentarian (Dean Fleischer-Camp), who moves into the Airbnb where Marcel lives, begins filming Marcel and his inventiveness around the house which will eventually garner attention from YouTube viewers and even 60 Minutes.

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Crimes of the Future

  • Title: Crimes of the Future
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Writer/director David Cronenberg returns to science fiction and body horror in a film about the evolution of the human race and the spectacle of surgery as entertainment. Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux star as a pair of artists in this new world. His body continues to grow new organs which she removes in front of an audience as both spectacle and, as both admit to each other, sex.

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