Dale Maxfield Blog

Greta – Movie Review

Greta – R Release Date: 2019 The programmer introducing Greta to the audience at the Toronto International Film Festival spoke about how he debated putting Greta into TIFF’s midnight horror series. He mentioned how...

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If Beale Street Could Talk – Movie Review

If Beale Street Could Talk – R Release Date: Fri 30 Nov 2018 Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) directs this film starring KiKi Layne as Tish, a woman fighting to prove her fiance Fonny’s (Stephan James)...

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Widows – Movie Review

Widows – R Release Date: Fri 16 Nov 2018 Director Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave) co-wrote Widows with Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn. Given that pedigree, it should come as no surprise that...

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Life Itself – Movie Review

Life Itself – R Release Date: Fri 21 Sep 2018 Note: This movie was reviewed again with video. Read that review here. Director Dan Fogelman introduced us to the actors who had made the...

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Homecoming – TV Preview

Homecoming – TV-14 Release Date: Fri 2 Nov 2018 ***NOTE: This preview is based on the first three episodes of the show as they were shown at TIFF 2018.*** Homecoming is a new series...

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Beautiful Boy – Movie Review

Beautiful Boy – R Release Date: Fri 12 Oct 2018 In the Q&A after this movie premiered at TIFF, the director and producers talked about how they hoped that their movie could help people...

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TIFF 2018

It’s my first year attending the Toronto International Film Festival! I’ve wanted to try it for years, but it finally worked out that I could go and be there from September 6-16. The only...

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The Happytime Murders – Movie Review

The Happytime Murders – R Release Date: Fri 24 Aug 2018 Brian Henson directs this over-the-top comedy noir about puppet private eye Phil Philips (Bill Baretta) who has to team up with his former...

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Mac and Me: What Happened?! Tue 9/18 7:30PM

RSVP on Facebook Tuesday Sep 18th 7:30PM @ The Buffalo Room 817 Westport Road, Kansas City, MO Replace ET and Stephen Spielberg with Ronald McDonald and gratuitous Coca-Cola product placement and you have something like the...

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BlacKkKlansman – Movie Review

BlacKkKlansman – R Release Date: Fri 10 Aug 2018 Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman is an adaptation of a true story about a black Colorado Springs detective (John David Washington) who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan...

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