REVIEW: CODA [2021]

Do you have something to say? It’s a coming-of-age film like any other. Ruby Rossi (Emilia Jones) is a bullied senior in high school ready to choose her elective when the boy she has a crush on (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo‘s Miles) is overheard picking choir. On a whim—and to her best friend’s (Amy Forsyth‘s Gertie) shock—Ruby states the same. It’s not as though singing is something she dislikes. She loves to sing. The problem, as her choirmaster (Eugenio Derbez‘s Mr. V.) is about to discover, stems from her lack of confidence…

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REVIEW: Sing Street [2016]

“Happy sad” Writer/director John Carney emotionally stripped ex-The Frames bandmate Glen Hansard bare in his 2007 feature film Once and now he does it to himself. The hiccup that was an attempt to recreate lightning in a bottle despite the conscious addition of polish and star appeal with Begin Again is thankfully a distant memory because the musical dramatist has again struck gold by sticking to his roots, his home, and his heart. A semi-autobiographical tale about a young boy’s life being upturned in a way that pushes him towards…

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