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MOVIE REVIEW: Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood

Written and directed with a galaxy’s worth of love by Richard Linklater, Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood may be one of the most rich and endearing “back in my day” yarns you will ever find. The proud Texas filmmaker has long embraced time capsule motifs and his suburban upbringing throughout his career. Bringing back his layover rotoscope animation style, Linklaker presents the point of view of a pre-teen daydreamer during 1969, one of the most influential years in American history.

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MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on the "Cinematic Underdogs" podcast talking "American Underdog"

This past month, I was invited back as a guest to the Cinematic Underdogs podcast hosted by Paul Keelan and Jordan Puga. This was my third spin on their show which specializes in covering sports movies. I previously dug in with them last year to talk about Slap Shot and Moneyball. We’ve been enjoying each others’ company on social media and through connected fellow creators ever since. This time, we have a movie very fitting of the podcast’s name. The three of us discussed American Underdog, the under-seen and under-loved Kurt Warner biopic from this past Christmas.

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MOVIE REVIEW: Deep Water

The cold hearts, jealous places, and mental battles of Deep Water slip into near despondency without a resonating grip. When it’s all said and done, the movie is not violent enough for HBO, not sexy enough for old school Cinemax, not polished enough for a major studio release, and not shocking enough for Netflix’s water cooler buzz desire to ensure a subscriber spike. That’s an embarrassing end result of mediocrity.

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MOVIE REVIEW: The Adam Project

In other movies of this type, the whizzy sci-fi often becomes the place where all money, effort, and speed was spent, shortchanging any balance of patience to highlight characters or create tangible emotions. Going back to the likes of Real Steel, Date Night, the Night at the Museum series, and Free Guy on his resume, Shawn Levy has established a proven forte at producing shining and human sources of wonder next to the dashing delights. He’s made another crowd-pleasing and heart-filling winner here with The Adam Project.

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GUEST COLUMN: Looking for Life Lessons in "Top Gun"

by Lewis Robinson

“Top Gun” is an 80s classic that resonates that helped to solidify Tom Cruise’s standing as an A-List actor, and it resonates strongly with viewers decades later. Here are some reasons that Maverick’s journey is so compelling to viewers, what they can learn from it, and why revisiting this hero study is what movie audiences want to see now.

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INFOGRAPHICS: What Americans Really Think of Movie Nominations

During awards season, no one can escape the pop culture buzz around which nominated movies, directors, or actors will bag the Oscar. But do all those movie nominations and reviews have a real impact on the movies people see in theaters or at home? As part of the DISH promise to “tune in to you,” USDISH went and found out. We asked one thousand American adults what they think of movie reviews, nominations, and awards.

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GUEST COLUMN: DIY Soundproofing Hacks For A Home Recording Studio

by Jo

You can have a fantastic microphone, produce incredible Italian voice over recordings and make great music, but if your studio doesn’t have very good soundproofing, you have a problem, or rather, lots of problems. Background noise, bad acoustics and external sound disturbances being just a few of them. If you’re finding issues with sound in your home studio frustrating, the great news is that you can fix the problem on a budget. There’s no need to splash out lots of money on professional proofing either

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MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest for "Feelin' Film" FF+ Alternate Oscars 2016 Discussion

This week, I was invited for a very different selection show with the Feelin’ Film Podcast compared to our legendary movie drafts. Fellow awards-voting critic member Aaron White floated me the idea to experiment with legacy and memory to re-vote on previous Oscars, starting with the films of 2016 from five years ago. To be a tiebreaker, we are joined by Tomatometer-approved critic Kevin Brackett of the Reel Spoilers Podcast to fight for the likes of Moonlight, La La Land, Fences, Arrival, Hell or High Water, Jackie, A Monster Calls, Your Name. and more.

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