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Author: Kasey Butcher

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WONDER WOMAN 1984 OVERPROMISES & UNDERDELIVERS – At The Movies With Kasey

January 15, 2021January 20, 2021 Kasey Butcher
I waited, mostly patiently, for years for the second Wonder Woman movie to be released. It got pushed back repeatedly due to COVID-19 and finally was released on Christmas simultaneously through HBO Max and in theaters. The triumphant previews ... Read more
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‘LOVE, GUARANTEED’ PROVIDES LIGHTHEARTED FUN – At The Movies With Kasey

December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 Kasey Butcher
Netflix’s newest romantic comedy, Love, Guaranteed, leans heavily on conventions of the genre, but is so fun that I forgive its clichés. In the movie, Rachel Leigh Cook plays Susan, a lawyer with a heart of gold who takes the case of Nick (Damon ... Read more
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HULU & NETFLIX KICK OFF THE HOLIDAY MOVIE SEASON – At The Movies With Kasey

December 4, 2020December 7, 2020 Kasey Butcher
‘Tis the season for corny, cliched holiday movies, and I could not be more ready for it. This year, both Netflix and Hulu are offering plenty of options, some more delightful than others. ... Read more
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NEW ON NETFLIX: DASH & LILY AND THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 – At The Movies With Kasey

November 20, 2020November 24, 2020 Kasey Butcher
I am a Wingnut. That is to say, a big fan of The West Wing, Aaron Sorkin’s drama about quixotic civil servants in a White House so earnest it makes my heart hurt a little. Naturally, I was excited to watch The Trial of the Chicago 7, a new drama written ... Read more
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‘CHESS MINISERIES’ MORE THRILLING THAN NETFLIX’S ‘GOTHIC ROMANCE’ – At The Movies With Kasey

November 6, 2020November 6, 2020 Kasey Butcher
Gothic novels and adaptations of them are making a comeback this year—a trend that I wholeheartedly embrace. With the genre’s gloomy settings, antiheroes, and suspenseful plots, you would think it would be hard to go wrong, but Netflix’s ... Read more
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HALLOWEEN HITS & MISSES – At The Movies With Kasey

October 23, 2020October 27, 2020 Kasey Butcher
At the beginning of the year, in the Before Times when movies were still coming out in theaters, I reviewed The Turning, a decent adaptation of one of my favorite books, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. The new followup to last fall’s The Haunting ... Read more
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PIONEERING WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND SCIENCE FICTION – At The Movies With Kasey

October 9, 2020October 9, 2020 Kasey Butcher
Available on Amazon Prime, Radioactive tells the story of the innovative careers and passionate love story of Marie (Rosamund Pike) and Pierre Curie (Sam Riley). From the time they meet as Marie is struggling to find her place in the scientific ... Read more
Original Leisure & Entertainment 

AWAY OFFERS SPACE DRAMA, ROMANCE, & RICH CHARACTERS – At The Movies With Kasey

September 25, 2020September 28, 2020 Kasey Butcher
New on Netflix, Away chronicles a group of astronauts on a roundtrip mission to Mars, as well as the complicated feelings of their families back on Earth. ... Read more
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‘LOVE IN THE TIME OF CORONA’ SHOWCASES SHARED EXPERIENCES – At The Movies With Kasey

September 11, 2020September 15, 2020 Kasey Butcher
Love in the Time of Corona, riffing off the great Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel Love in the Time of Cholera, is too perfect a title to not have been swooped up eventually. I was surprised to see Freeform nab it first. The increasingly saucy family-friendly ... Read more
Original Leisure & Entertainment 

‘BUFFALOED’ OFFERS ROWDY SATIRE; ‘WE SUMMON THE DARKNESS’ FALLS FLAT – At The Movies With Kasey

August 28, 2020September 3, 2020 Kasey Butcher
In Buffaloed, Peg (Zoey Deutch) grows up in a working-class home in Buffalo, where her single mom, Kathy (Judy Greer), struggles to make ends meet while raising Peg and her brother, JJ (Noah Reid). Peg spends her adolescence training herself ... Read more
Original Leisure & Entertainment 

NEW TRUE CRIME DOCS: FEAR CITY AND I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK – At The Movies With Kasey

August 14, 2020August 17, 2020 Kasey Butcher
If you watched The Sopranos or another more contemporary mob story and wondered what exactly the whole deal with RICO was, Fear City: New York vs the Mafia is a good documentary for you to watch in order to get the whole story. In this new Netflix ... Read more
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WHAT TO STREAM & WHAT NOT TO – At The Movies With Kasey

July 31, 2020August 3, 2020 Kasey Butcher
I really miss going to the movie theater and I hope that soon the studios will be back with major releases—like Wonder Woman 1984—and we can go safely to see them. In the meantime, I have found it helpful that with streaming, if I watch a terrible ... Read more
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IF YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED HAMILTON, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? – At The Movies With Kasey

July 17, 2020July 22, 2020 Kasey Butcher
One of the few good surprises of the year has been the announcement that Disney+ was releasing the film version of Hamilton in July of this year, instead of October 2021, as was planned. For the minimal cost of one month of the streaming service, ... Read more
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WATCH “FEEL THE BEAT”… SKIP “TASTE THE NATION” – At The Movies With Kasey

July 3, 2020July 10, 2020 Kasey Butcher
I thought I was really scraping the bottom of the Netflix barrel when I agreed to watch Floor is Lava with my husband, but it turned out that the new game show, based on that game we played with our siblings when we were kids, is a lot of good, silly ... Read more
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“SHIRLEY” OFFERS AN EERIE LOOK AT FAMED HORROR AUTHOR, SUPPORTS CINEMA CENTER – At The Movies With Kasey

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 Kasey Butcher
While many local theaters remain closed, our local arthouse theater, Cinema Center is offering a wide variety of films to watch at home, and a portion of the rental cost goes toward helping them come back when it is safe to do so. The movies are ... Read more
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‘THE GREAT’ TAKES A COMICAL STAB AT HISTORY; THE LODGE BORES – At The Movies With Kasey

June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 Kasey Butcher
Although the move to digital learning has led many to seek enrichment opportunities, it would be a mistake to take Hulu’s new original series, The Great, as a supplemental history lesson. I do, however, suggest watching this tongue-in-cheek ... Read more
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UNORTHODOX & SELF MADE TELL TRUE STORIES OF OVERCOMING STRUGGLES – At The Movies With Kasey

May 22, 2020May 22, 2020 Kasey Butcher
If you are wading through the sea of new content on Netflix, looking for something entertaining, but maybe a little less, well, Tiger King, I suggest two miniseries about incredible women: Unorthodox and Self Made. In the Netflix Original ... Read more
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WHAT TO WATCH ON HBO NOW WITH HULU – At The Movies With Kasey

April 24, 2020May 3, 2020 Kasey Butcher
Are you still at home? I’m still at home, and thanks to several days of snow, I am starting to climb the walls. Around when the stay-at-home order was announced, I signed up for a trial of HBO Now so that I could watch the miniseries adapted from Stephen ... Read more
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“EMMA.” EXCELS IN ROMANCE, LACKS IN SUBTLETY – At The Movies With Kasey

March 13, 2020March 17, 2020 Kasey Butcher
I have seen the 1996 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma approximately 150 times. My Mom and I used to watch it on weekends when my dad and brother were off DJing wedding receptions. On top of that, Emma is my favorite of Austen’s novels. These factors ... Read more
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STRANGE & THOUGHT-PROVOKING FILMS TO BREAK A STREAMING RUT – At The Movies With Kasey

February 28, 2020March 6, 2020 Kasey Butcher
With so many streaming options at our fingertips, it is somehow still so easy to fall into a rut of watching the same shows every weekend. But how much SVU or Parks and Rec can I really watch? (Too much.) Thankfully, Netflix Originals provide a ... Read more
Original Leisure & Entertainment 

“THE PHARMACIST” OFFERS ​ LARGER THAN LIFE DRAMA – At The Movies With Kasey

February 14, 2020February 26, 2020 Kasey Butcher
One of my favorite books ever is ​The Turn of the Screw ​by Henry James, which tells the tale of a governess working on a remote estate. As the story unfolds, it is unclear if the young woman is seeing ghosts or losing her mind, and either way, the ... Read more
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‘CHEER’ & ‘THE ACCIDENT’ OFFER INTENSE HUMAN DRAMA – At The Movies With Kasey

January 31, 2020February 3, 2020 Kasey Butcher
Now streaming on Netflix, Cheer runs for six, one hour-long episodes, following the Navarro College cheerleading team as they prepare to compete for their 14th national championship. The docuseries sheds light on the backstories of a handful ... Read more
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‘JUST MERCY’ DELIVERS A DRAMATIC STORY AND COMPELLING MESSAGE – At The Movies With Kasey

January 17, 2020January 27, 2020 Kasey Butcher
Often in the current true crime boom, issues around criminal justice reform can get lost in all the stories about serial killers or compelling cases of wrongfully convicted men. Just Mercy features such a case but also puts it in the context ... Read more
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NETFLIX CHRISTMAS MOVIE ROUNDUP – At The Movies With Kasey

December 20, 2019January 13, 2020 Kasey Butcher
I have been looking forward to doing the research for this column ever since Halloween. Here is your roundup of new Christmas movies streaming on Netflix for 2019. ... Read more
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A CORNY TAKE ON MISTER ROGERS – At The Movies With Kasey

December 6, 2019December 24, 2019 Kasey Butcher
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood tells the story of beloved children’s television host Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks) through the eyes of Esquire Magazine writer Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys). With his personal and professional lives on the verge ... Read more
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