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  • Trap (2024)

    Trap (2024)

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    Grace Cogan
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    Directed by M. Night Shyamalan        Thriller/Horror/Crime          PG-13 1h 45m M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller, Trap, embarks on an emotional roller-coaster for the first hour, then becomes a dragging dread for the final act. I don’t necessarily mean that the movie is bad, in fact I found it quite entertaining. But the final act of the film, including – what I…

  • The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

    The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

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    Grace Cogan
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    Directed by Frank Darabont               Drama/Crime              PG-13              2h 22m I first saw The Shawshank Redemption on January 11th, 2019. I was at home, recovering from my first knee surgery and my mother was teaching an evening class over at Benedictine. When my father got home from work, he fed the animals, came in, joined me in the back room, and showed…