My Favorite American Pie

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Everyone is a Critic Movie Review Podcast

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New Movies: The Boys in the Band - At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.Once Upon a River - Margo Crane's odyssey on the Stark River introduces her to a world filled with wonders and dangers.The Keeper - The love story of a young English woman and a German PoW, who together overcome prejudice, public hostility and personal tragedy.Eternal Beauty - After Jane (Sally Hawkins) falls into a state of despair over her schizophrenia, she encounters new sources of love and life with surprising results.A Call to Spy - In the beginning of WWII, with Britain becoming desperate, Churchill orders his new spy agency - SOE - to recruit and train women as spies.The Comey Rule - Jeff Daniels and Brendan Gleeson star as former FBI Dir. James Comey and President Donald J. Trump in this limited series of the story of two powerful men, whose strikingly different ethics and loyalties put them on a collision course.Undisputed ClassicThe Last Picture Show - In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.   1990 Miller’s Crossing - A drug kingpin is released from prison and seeks to take total control of the criminal underworld in order to give back to the community.Avalon - A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.Basket Case 2 - Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks with journalists hot on their tail.Texasville - The summer of 1984: 32 years after Duane Jackson captained the high school football team and Jacy Farrow was homecoming queen, the small town of Anarene, Texas prepares for its centennial celebration. Oil prices are down, banks are failing, and Duane's $12 million in debt. His wife Karla drinks too much, his children are always in trouble, and he tom-cats around with the wives of friends. Jacy's back in town, after a mildly successful acting career, life in Italy, and the death of her son. People assume Duane and Jacy will resume their high school romance. And Sonny is "tired in his mind," causing worries for his safety. Can these friends find equilibrium in middle age? Marked for Death - A retired DEA agent is out to hunt down and take out a Jamaican drug posse that has targeted he and his family for murder.Henry & June - In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo as well as with Henry and others. June shuttles between Paris and New York trying to find acting jobs while Henry works on his first major work, "Tropic of Cancer," a pseudo-biography of June. Anais and Hugo help finance the book, but June is displeased with Henry's portrayal of her, and Anais and Henry have many arguments about their styles of writing on a backdrop of a Bohemian lifestyle in Paris.Desperate Hours - An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.