Reviews by Linda

I'm the founder of Moviepie.com where I've written reviews for over two (!) decades. I'm a member of the Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS) since 2022 and GALECA (the Society of LGBTQ+ Entertainment Critics Association) since 2025. I'm based in the Seattle area. My favorite films include Gone With the Wind, Purple Rain, and A Room With a View. I have a fondness for what I call "space stories" and movies with talking animals. I don't believe there is such a thing as a guilty pleasure movie. Own what you love!

Anything's Possible

Anything’s Possible (2022)

Kesha (Eva Reign) is confident and beautiful and Khal (Abubakr Ali) is kind and sweet. They are two adorable high school seniors who cutely and awkwardly start full-on crushing on each other when paired up in art class. As this is the modern world, the crush then segues into...

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Halloween Ends

Teaser trailer promises that this time ‘Halloween Ends’

It’s not a stretch to say that now multiple generations have enjoyed the Halloween franchise during its ups and downs (it’s been 45 years since John Carpenter’s original Halloween film). So when the final movie of David Gordon Green’s reboot/revisit trilogy promises that Halloween Ends, well, I’d have to...

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Fire of Love (2022)

Fire of Love (2022)

Two French volcanologists meet and fall in love in the late 60s, have an explosive and volcanic relationship, both with each other and with the volcanos that they love, and die together at the eruption of Mount Unzen in Japan in 1991. The whole thing sounds stranger than fiction,...

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Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

Delia Owens’ 2018 novel Where the Crawdads Sing was (and continues to be) a blockbuster of a book. By the beginning of 2022, it had sold 12 million copies, making it one of the best-selling books of all time. Did the story of an outcast called the “Marsh Girl”...

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She Said

Harvey Weinstein’s takedown gets big-screen treatment in ‘She Said’

I’m guessing this isn’t the Hollywood return that Harvey Weinstein was hoping for! She Said stars Oscar-nominee Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan as New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who together broke open the story of Harvey Weinstein’s serial sexual assaults in Hollywood and his well-known...

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Five Days at Memorial

Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Five Days at Memorial’ gets Apple TV+ series

Based on actual events that happened during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the harrowing book Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital won a Pulitzer Prize for author Sheri Fink. Now the book has been adapted into what will certainly be an equally harrowing dramatic limited...

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Thor: Love and Thunder

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

In our previous chapter with Thor the Space Viking, director Taika Waititi (mercifully) unleashed Chris Hemsworth’s untapped comedy skills, reviving the dullest Marvel series with probably the weirdest, and therefore one of the most surprisingly delightful chapter of the ten beeeeellion Marvel movies, Thor: Ragnarok. Now, with Thor: Love...

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The Woman King

Viola Davis leads African women warriors in the new trailer for ‘The Woman King’

For everyone wishing Wakanda was real (like, you know, all of us), the upcoming movie The Woman King portrays the remarkable Agoji, the all-female warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s. Viola Davis (yesssss) plays General Nanisca, a woman warrior who is training the next...

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Amsterdam (2022)

A killer cast is accused of murder in new trailer for David O. Russell’s ‘Amsterdam’

“A lot of this actually happened” claims the trailer for David O. Russell’s latest, Amsterdam, his first film since 2015’s Joy. The period piece has a dead white man in a box and three friends (a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney who met at a military hospital in...

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Hocus Pocus 2

Disney+ drops teaser for ‘Hocus Pocus 2’… They’re back, witches!

This Halloween marks a return to the cult favorite world of Hocus Pocus, reuniting everyone’s favorite trio of witches, played by Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy. It’s been 29 years since someone lit the Black Flame Candle and resurrected the 17th-century sisters, and they are looking...

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Ticket to Paradise

Trailer: Julia Roberts and George Clooney return to rom-com in ‘Ticket to Paradise’

America’s sweetheart Julia Roberts is returning to the rom-com genre with America’s most handsome silver-haired movie star, George Clooney! The pair plays a long-divorced couple banding together to try to keep their starry-eyed daughter from marrying a new boyfriend in the name of true love (which was apparently their...

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The Black Phone

The Black Phone (2022)

Like many people, I like a good scare. And like any other kid who grew up in the 70s, I knew that all I had to do at the time was turn on the TV news for real-life horror. Serial killers were rampant, and child killers were their own...

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