All posts tagged "Inspired by True Events"
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Jim Batts | October 23, 2025SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE – Review
We must be “all in” for the end-of-the-year awards season as we’ve got a new big biographical film...
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Jim Batts | October 23, 2025BLUE MOON (2025) – Review
Can there really be two music biopics opening this weekend? Yes, though they share little in common other...
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Jim Batts | September 18, 2025WALTZING WITH BRANDO – Review
Sure, the sun is still making temperatures rise, but it’s the big late-in-the-year awards season for the studios...
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Jim Batts | September 18, 2025SWIPED (2025) – Review
Feels like it’s been a while since moviegoers have gotten a feature about a real-life invention that had...
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Jim Batts | December 5, 2024THE ORDER (2024) – Review
During the pandemic lockdown and in the frigid months of more recent years, many home viewers became hooked...
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Jim Batts | October 10, 2024SATURDAY NIGHT – Review
Ah, the weekend, a time to kick back and relax after the drudgery of the nine-to-fives grind. Well,...
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Jim Batts | July 11, 2024FLY ME TO THE MOON – Review
Yes, I see that title and I immediately picture “ole’ blue eyes”, a trench coat draped over a...
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Jim Batts | June 20, 2024THE BIKERIDERS – Review
This weekend sees the release of a brand new film from an acclaimed director with an all-star cast...
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Jim Batts | March 15, 2024ARTHUR THE KING – Review
Geez, the movies have really gone to the dogs. Sure, lots of folks constantly use that as an...
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Jim Batts | February 22, 2024ORDINARY ANGELS – Review
As the news gets darker and more depressing, a triumphant “against the odds” inspired by true events underdog...
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Jim Batts | January 18, 2024ORIGIN – Review
Much like the earlier reviewed ALL OF US STRANGERS, here’s another “indie” film that’s now getting a “wide...
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Jim Batts | December 24, 2023THE BOYS IN THE BOAT – Review
As promised the onslaught of 2023 sports films marches, or in this case paddles, on. Hot on the...
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Jim Batts | December 21, 2023THE IRON CLAW – Review
Ladies and gentlemen, get ready to …watch another sports-themed movie! Sheesh and people whine about a “glut” of...
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Jim Batts | November 21, 2023NAPOLEON (2023) – Review
The end-of-the-year awards contenders naturally include several biographical films, usually, they’re intimate tales of triumph and tragedy, such...
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Jim Batts | November 3, 2023PRISCILLA – Review
Woo boy, here’s a new flick that’ll make the multiplex shake, rattle, and roll (well, the screens that...
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Jim Batts | October 20, 2023NYAD – Review
Sometimes we just need to see a flick that gets us motivated. To get us off our “duff”…after...
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Jim Batts | October 13, 2023THE BURIAL – Review
End-of-the-year movie awards season is in full swing as we see the release of a film focused on...
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Jim Batts | August 25, 2023GRAN TURISMO – Review
Hey, as the Summer movie season races (hint) to that Labor Day finish line (again), the studios aren’t...
