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Author: Kasey Butcher

Local Opinion Editorials 

‘The Menu’ Thrills & ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ Chills ~ At The Movies With Kasey

January 20, 2023January 26, 2023 Kasey Butcher
Studios often use this time of year to dump movies that they do not think will perform well at the box office, but the rise of streaming and simultaneous releases has provided an opportunity for quality films to perform well in January. The Menu, ... Read more
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An Overview Of Holiday Streaming Features ~ At The Movies With Kasey

December 16, 2022December 16, 2022 Kasey Butcher
I watch five movies every holiday season: The Holiday, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, The Shop Around the Corner, It’s a Wonderful Life, and Die Hard. Die Hard is a Christmas movie—it is, after all, about the reunification of a family for the ... Read more
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‘Falling For Christmas’ Stumbles ~ At The Movies With Kasey

November 18, 2022December 16, 2022 Kasey Butcher
Catherine Called Birdy was one of the popular novels I did not read when I was young because I was busy trying to read literally the biggest books in my school library. Boy, I missed out. In the adaptation by Amazon Studios, Catherine, called Birdy ... Read more
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‘Rosaline’ Makes Comedy From Tragedy ~ At The Movies With Kasey

November 4, 2022December 16, 2022 Kasey Butcher
In school, I liked Shakespeare, but I hated Romeo and Juliet. Sure, it has some beautiful poetry tucked in, but the story? Too much teen angst. Hulu’s new movie, Rosaline, based on the novel When You Were Mine by Rebecca Serle, takes a comedic ... Read more
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The Best & Worst Of Scary Streaming For October ~ At The Movies With Kasey

October 21, 2022November 8, 2022 Kasey Butcher
October is my favorite month. In our home, it is a month-long celebration of cinnamon tea, cozy sweaters, and pumpkin beer. My pumpkin patch even produced an abundance of decorative gourds. I also spend the month preparing this movie review, ... Read more
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‘Lou’ Boasts Great Performances But A Terrible Script ~ At The Movies With Kasey

October 7, 2022October 18, 2022 Kasey Butcher
Allison Janney is an American treasure, but her new movie is so poorly written I can only imagine that she agreed to make it to mark starring in an action movie off her celebrity BINGO card. That is the only plausible reason why she made Lou. Spoiler ... Read more
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‘Marcel The Shell With Shoes On’ Gets A Full-Length Feature ~ At The Movies With Kasey

September 23, 2022September 26, 2022 Kasey Butcher
“Showing in select theaters”—the dreaded phrase I thought had vanished in the streaming era reared its ugly head when I wanted to see Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. It turned out that “select theaters” translated to a small handful of showings ... Read more
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Hulu Capitalizes On The Talents Of Zoey Deutch & Steve Carell ~ At The Movies With Kasey

September 9, 2022September 16, 2022 Kasey Butcher
For me, anything with Zoey Deutch is a must-see. In Not Okay, Deutch plays Danni Sanders, a struggling writer who lies about going to Paris only to post a photoshopped picture of her at the Arc Du Triomphe minutes before a terrorist attack at the ... Read more
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‘The Bear’ & ‘A League Of Their Own’ Showcase Excellent Ensembles ~ At The Movies With Kasey

August 26, 2022August 29, 2022 Kasey Butcher
My husband is from Chicago, so I did not exactly have to twist his arms into watching The Bear, Hulu’s show about an Italian beef shop, but the show was even better than we expected. ... Read more
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A Story Of Community & Heroism ~ At The Movies With Kasey

August 12, 2022August 16, 2022 Kasey Butcher
This week, I watched two family-friendly movies that involve harrowing feats and a whole lot of water. Although Thirteen Lives is not suitable for the youngest family members, it provides a much better story than The Sea Beast does. ... Read more
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‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ & ‘Men’ Tell Stories of Survival

July 29, 2022August 3, 2022 Kasey Butcher
Based upon the best-selling novel, Where the Crawdads Sing is part coming-of-age story, part sentimental romance, and part murder mystery, set in the marshes of North Carolina. In the story, Kya Clark’s (Daisy Edgar-Jones) entire family ... Read more
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‘Emergency’ Turns A Buddy Comedy Into A Poignant Drama ~ At The Movies With Kasey

July 15, 2022July 21, 2022 Kasey Butcher
Netflix’s Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between follows the rise and decline of a senior year love using more montages than I knew was possible. I was once a young person, and even then, I’m not sure I would have liked this movie. ... Read more
Local Opinion Editorials 

‘Father Of The Bride’ Remakes A Classic With A Twist – At The Movies With Kasey

July 1, 2022July 7, 2022 Kasey Butcher
In an entertainment landscape comprised of so many remakes and reboots, it is refreshing when a remake has a new perspective to offer on an old story. Father of the Bride, the remake of the 1991 film starring Steve Martin, leans less on the sentimentality ... Read more
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‘Hustle’ Features Adam Sandler At His Best ~ At The Movies With Kasey

June 17, 2022July 21, 2022 Kasey Butcher
In Netflix’s Hustle, Adam Sandler plays Stanley Sugerman, an NBA scout improbably married to Queen Latifah. When the owner of the 76ers (Robert Duvall) promotes him to assistant coach, it seems like Stanley’s dreams have come true. Almost ... Read more
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Senior Year A Love Letter To Elder Millennial Culture ~ At The Movies With Kasey

June 3, 2022July 21, 2022 Kasey Butcher
In 2002, I wrote my first film review for The Waynedale News. A year away from a driver’s license and from my little sister’s birth, I was a sophomore in high school and, although I would never willingly go back to that age, there are still things ... Read more
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Wading Into The Flood Of Recent True Crime Content – At The Movies With Kasey

May 20, 2022May 24, 2022 Kasey Butcher
Just when you think that the true crime market is totally saturated, out come the dramatic miniseries adaptations of books and documentaries covering already popular cases. Although some, like Hulu’s The Girl from Plainfield, are so melodramatic ... Read more
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Amazon Produces Spy Vs Spy & HBO Reveals Industry Lies – At The Movies With Kasey

May 6, 2022May 10, 2022 Kasey Butcher
In All The Old Knives, two CIA agents, Henry Pelham (Chris Pine) and Celia Harrison (Thandiwe Newton), who used to be in a relationship, meet to debrief about what really happened in a tragically failed rescue they were part of years before. ... Read more
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Skip ‘The Bubble,’ Stream ‘The Girl Before’ – At The Movies With Kasey

April 22, 2022April 22, 2022 Kasey Butcher
I am surprised that we have not been treated to more navel-gazing from the film industry about the impacts of the pandemic on production and box office sales. In fact, after a small batch of movies and limited series set during the early days of ... Read more
Local Opinion Editorials 

‘The Lost City’ Makes Genre Tropes Fun – At The Movies With Kasey

April 8, 2022April 11, 2022 Kasey Butcher
I have reviewed several lackluster romantic comedies recently, so when I sat down for The Lost City, I did not get my hopes up. The new movie starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum did not disappoint and satisfied my craving for a good old-fashioned ... Read more
Original Leisure & Entertainment 

‘Cyrano’ & ‘The Adam Project’ Show Audiences Some Love – At The Movies With Kasey

March 25, 2022March 26, 2022 Kasey Butcher
Based on the stage musical of the same name, Cyrano tells the classic story of the title character (Peter Dinklage), a not-so-attractive but very eloquent man in love with a beautiful woman, his friend Roxanne (Haley Bennett). When she falls ... Read more
Local Opinion Editorials 

‘Book Of Love’ & ‘The Dropout’ Are Too Little & Much Too Much – At The Movies With Kasey

March 11, 2022March 16, 2022 Kasey Butcher
Amazon’s recent specialty seems to be wasting meet-cutes. In Book of Love, English author Henry Copper (Sam Claflin) is sent to Mexico on a promotional tour of his book, where the dull novel has unexpectedly large sales. Henry is met in Mexico ... Read more
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Long Cons & A Terrible Romcom – At The Movies With Kasey

February 25, 2022March 1, 2022 Kasey Butcher
The Netflix Original Series Inventing Anna follows reporter Vivian Kent (Anna Chlumsky) as she strives to cover the rise and fall of Anna Sorokin, a.k.a. Anna Delvey (Julia Garner), the “fake heiress” who took elite members of New York’s business ... Read more
Local Opinion Editorials 

A Thrilling Spoof & A Film Noir Drama – At The Movies With Kasey

February 11, 2022February 14, 2022 Kasey Butcher
Sometimes it feels like if you’ve read one psychological thriller from the last few years you’ve read them all. The same tropes pop up repeatedly—the full wine glasses, the dark pasts not disclosed at a therapist’s office, the disturbing events ... Read more
Local Opinion Editorials 

Scream Brings Back A Horror Favorite After 10 Years – At The Movies With Kasey

January 28, 2022February 2, 2022 Kasey Butcher
Scream (1996) is my favorite scary movie, and I would be thrilled to have a new installment every decade as long as Neve Cambell and Courteney Cox are willing to come back. I mean, Jamie Lee Curtis is still doing Halloween movies. The fifth Scream ... Read more
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The Buzziest New Movies – At The Movies With Kasey

January 14, 2022January 18, 2022 Kasey Butcher
Welcome to 2022. Let’s catch up on some of the buzziest movies that were released over the holidays, many of which, perhaps as a sign of the times, were grim, even when trying to be funny. ... Read more
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