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One Movie Punch

Feb 28, 2018

Today’s movie is “My Happy Family” (2017), the Netflix Original film from Georgia written by Nana Ekvtimishvili and directed in collaboration with Simon Groβ. The film follows Manana (Ia Shugliashvili), a 52-year-old woman living in a multigenerational home, including her parents Lamara (Berta Ninidze) and Otar...


Feb 27, 2018

Today’s movie is “Fullmetal Alchemist” (2017), the live-action adaptation of the classic manga from Hiromu Arakawa, directed for the screen by Fumihiko Sori. The film distills the major events from all 27 volumes of the manga and crams them into two hours, from the origin story of alchemist brothers Edward Elric...


Feb 26, 2018

It’s Marvel Monday and we’re back on the chronological road to Infinity War. Today’s movie is “Thor: The Dark World” (2013), the second of three sequels to follow “Marvel’s The Avengers” (2012), after “Iron Man 3” (2013) and before “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” (2014). The film follows...


Feb 25, 2018

Today’s movie is “Within Our Gates” (1920), the silent film written and directed by Oscar Micheaux. It is the oldest surviving film made by an African-American director. The film was written as a quasi-response to the incredibly racist “The Birth of a Nation” from D.W. Griffith. The film had trouble getting...


Feb 24, 2018

Today’s movie is “Mute”, the science-fiction neo-noir thriller directed by Duncan Jones and written in collaboration with Michael Robert Johnson. The film follows Leo (Alexander Skarsgård), a mute Amish bartender whose girlfriend Naadirah (Seyneb Saleh) disappears into the super slimy underworld of futuristic...