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Flora And Son - Movie Review

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Flora And Son - Movie Review Critics Score - 7 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been lighting up the silver screen since he was just a kid, back in the late 1980’s and early 90’s, with roles in Beethoven and A River Runs Through It, where I remember first seeing him. His natural charm and charismatic nature has taken him far on the Hollywood scene, from comedic roles as a teen in 10 Thing I Hate About You, to action packed mind benders like Looper and Inception. Whatever audiences everywhere are after, he’s got it, and although he’s not the main character in his new film, Flora And Son, in many ways he steals the show. Flora And Son is a family drama about a mother and son who’ve got a difficult relationship, to say the least, and Gordon-Levitt plays a guitar instructor that the main protagonist, Flora, takes lessons from and starts to get a thing for, along with the rest of us. The musical inspiration and melodies are what the film hangs it’s hat on, it’...

Bottoms - Movie Review

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Bottoms - Movie Review Critics Score - 7 of 10 General Audience Score - 8 of 10 Rachel Sennott exploded onto the cinematic scene in 2020 with the hilarious cringe comedy Shiva Baby, even though she’d worked on a few smaller projects before, Shiva Baby was her true big screen debut, also one of the first film reviews I ever wrote and if you’ve never seen it, I highly recommend. Since then her career has went nuclear, she’s one of the freshest faces in Hollywood that you can get in your movie, the combination of her charm and humor makes her a huge draw for films looking to entice the Gen Z crowds. The new movie Bottoms reunites Rachel with her Shiva Baby counterpart Emma Saligman, the incredible eighteen year old writer/director, and together they’re back to take us on a new comedic adventure. The basic premise and tone for the film are quite silly by comparison to the edgier and darker Shiva Baby, Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri are at the bottom of the high school barrel, so they start...