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LOST GIRLS & LOVE HOTELS – Review by Sarah Ward

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Lost Girls & Love Hotels isn’t a traditional romance, but it relies upon a well-worn romantic idea. While the notion that you can both lose and find yourself through travel, and via relocating to a busy big city far away from your usual troubles, may be based in truth, it’s so frequently trotted out as a piece of profound wisdom and as the foundation for contemplative stories about yearning, searching souls that it often plays as a cliché.

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CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET? – Review by Kristen Page-Kirby

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Emma is low in the hierarchy at work and low on confidence everywhere. Already a nervous flier, after a few cocktails and a lot of turbulence, she blurts secrets large and small to the guy sitting next to her, figuring it’s no big deal to tell a stranger every embarrassing thing that’s happened to her moments before she dies. But wait! They survive! And it turns out that Jack, her seatmate, is her company’s new CEO! Oh nooooo!

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WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE – Review by Leslie Combemale

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It’s summer, yes, but don’t we all have time for a good gothic yarn? We Have Always Lived in the Castle might be the perfect recalibration to bring nihilistic ennui into your summer time fun. The film gets under your skin, making you consider what you would do for the ones you love. It will also serve to make nearly everyone grateful for the family they live with, so egregious is the one portrayed onscreen..

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AWFJ Movie of the Week, May 25-31: SAN ANDREAS

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Opening May 22, AWFJ’s Movie of the Week is Tomorrowland, this summer’s big-budget disaster extravaganza from director Brad Peyton, starring Dwayne Johnson as a helicopter pilot struggling to reach his daughter after a massive earthquake devastates California. Read on…

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