LOCKED: "Street smarts are important."
This is why I don't trust Waymo cars.
Seen at AMC 15 (Theatre #6) in Century City, CA.
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ADOLESCENCE: “We made him, didn’t we?”
In 4 unedited, single-take, hour-long episodes, ADOLESCENCE examines the traumatic reverberations that ripple throughout the British county of West Yorkshire when a 13-year-old boy is arrested for the violent murder of a school class-mate. While the series’ central focus is on the accused assailant, Jamie (Owen Cooper, in his acting debut), and his family (played by Stephen Graham, Christine Tremarco and Amelie Pease), this series demonstrates the collective toll that violent crime can take…
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MY OLD ASS: “I never realized how wise my young ass was.”
The premise of MY OLD ASS is relatively simple: A queer teenager named Elliott (played by Maisy Stella) – in the summer before she is scheduled to leave for college – goes camping with her two best friends and they all drink tea around the campfire, steeped from hallucinogenic mushrooms. Results of this experience vary for each of the girls, but for Elliott, a door is opened which…
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COMPANION: “I remember how perfect it all was.“
The film COMPANION is aptly named, as a film that explores the benefits and perils of the current state of modern companionship – in this advanced age of robotics, information technology and artificial intelligence. There are a lot of fun twists and turns in this movie, so I am reluctant to give too much of anything anyway. What I will say is that I appreciated the talents of this film’s true ensemble…