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Author: Ryan McNeil

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Decade: Reflecting on Ten Years of Writing The Matinee

August 20, 2017

Ten years of film. Ten years of love. Ten years of life.

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Days of The Week (Films Watched July 15 – August 19)

August 19, 2017

How’s your summer been?

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Episode 182 – A GHOST STORY

August 14, 2017

Talkin’ A GHOST STORY with Jolie Featherstone.

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reviews 3 stars, algee smith, anthony mackie, detroit, drama, hannah murray, jason mitchell, kaitlyn dever, kathryn bigelow, reviews, will poulter, women in film

DETROIT

August 13, 2017

How did we get here?

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reviews 3.5 stars, cosmo jarvis, drama, florence pugh, lady macbeth, naomi ackie, paul hilton, reviews, william oldroyd

LADY MACBETH

August 6, 2017

Don’t get distracted by divine dresses; this is a story of cold calculation.

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reviews 4 stars, a ghost story, casey affleck, david lowery, drama, rooney mara

A GHOST STORY

August 5, 2017

We all mourn the souls we lose. What if they mourn us back?

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Blindsided by THE LADYKILLERS

July 25, 2017

Sometimes I consider myself Danny Ocean; In reality, I’m probably The Professor…

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