Category: Review
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LA Times Review of Run This Town – March 5, 2020
‘Run This Town’ Runs the Table in a True Tale of Mayoral Malfeasance in Toronto by Kenneth Duran | Los Angeles Times | March 5, 2020 Smart, ambitious and impressive, “Run This Town†is the best kind of feature directing debut, a film that entertains and makes you look forward to what will come next.…
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New York Times Review of Run This Town – March 5, 2020
What Happens When the Mayor Smokes Crack? by Ben Kenigsberg | New York Times | March 5, 2020 “Run This Town,†a jagged, snappy procedural that splits its time between a downsizing newspaper and a dysfunctional city government, is a fictionalized account of an actual scandal. In 2013, The Toronto Star and Gawker both said…
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Run This Town Review – March 2, 2020
Damian Lewis is Exceptional as Ford by Hannah Hoolihan | Screen Rant | March 2, 2020 In May of 2013, a video surfaced that appeared to show Toronto’s former mayor, Rob Ford, smoking crack. It was hardly the first time his name had come up in relation to controversy, but it was the rock big…
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Dream Horse Review: Hollywood Reporter – Jan 28, 2020
Giddy Up! by Leslie Felperin | Hollywood Reporter | January 28, 2020 Toni Collette and Damian Lewis play members of a syndicate formed to raise a thoroughbred in this comedy-drama set in Wales and based on a true story. Anyone who saw director Louise Osmond’s 2015 documentary Dark Horse, winner of the audience award at…
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Dream Horse Review: Variety – Jan 26, 2020
Equal Emphasis is Given to the Excellent Lewis by Dennis Harvey | Variety | January 26, 2020 Louise Osmond’s 2015 Sundance audience winner “Dark Horse†was one of those documentaries that played like a crowdpleasing fiction, its real-life tale of underdog triumph had such a conventionally satisfying narrative arc. And indeed, the new “Dream Horse 
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Dream Horse Review: Toni Collette and Damian Lewis Lead This Crowd-Pleasing Sports Drama – Jan 26, 2020
It Will Make You Chuckle, Cheer, and Maybe Even Tear Up: 7Â Out of 10 by Ben Pearson | Slash Film | January 26, 2020 Jane (Toni Collette) is tired. Tired of working multiple jobs in small-town Wales, tired of her boring husband Brian (Owen Teale) who bums around watching TV all day, tired of taking…
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Dream Horse Sundance Review – Jan 25, 2020
“The Movie’s Got Spirit and Finishes Strong” by Tim Grierson | Screen Daily | January 25, 2020 Toni Collette is a sure thing in Dream Horse, a thoroughly predictable but ultimately winning underdog sports movie. Based on the true story of a group of down-on-their-luck Welsh villagers who pool their assets to sponsor a racehorse,…
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REVIEW: Damian Lewis is Steve McQueen in Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood – July 27, 2019
California Dreamin’ by Gingersnap | Fan Fun with Damian Lewis | July 27, 2019 STOP. Do not read any further unless you can handle spoilers. The day has finally come – the day when Damian Lewis plays Steve McQueen on the big screen. It’s July 26, 2019 and I’m planning my early escape from work…