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COLUMN: 17 hidden gem films from 2017
COLUMN: 17 hidden gem films from 2017

With each year of PR and press access, I’ve been diving deeper to experience more and more of what this art form and entertainment source has to offer.   For the second year in a row and on the heels of the Oscars putting a bow on all things 2017, I wanted to share a list of personal recommendations of hidden gems from last year.  Even these 17 are but drops in a larger bucket.  There so many little gems that I have yet to see.

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2017, 2018, Best Films, Column, Editorial, Independent Film, LIST, SPECIALDon ShanahanColossal, Julieta, Marshall, The Hero, Stronger, Loving Vincent, The Florida Project, My Egg Boy, Love Lies, Score: A Film Music Documentary, Score, Te Ata, Barry, Worlds Apart, Mr. Roosevelt, Win It All, Lost in Paris, The Blackcoat's Daughter, Dean, I Daniel Blake, Crown Heights, Get Out, Our Souls at Night, Princess Cyd, Lucky, WonderstruckComment
MOVIE REVIEW: Crown Heights
MOVIE REVIEW: Crown Heights

Director Matt Ruskin’s Crown Heights presents a true story incarceration as it happened to an innocent man.  Just when you think two undue years awaiting trial are shameful enough, it turns into twenty over the course of four presidencies and 99 tidy minutes.  To tell the story of Colin Warner is to tell a story shared by too many thousands of other wrongfully incarcerated people within the U.S. prison system.

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2017, 4 STARS, Independent Film, MOVIE REVIEWDon Shanahan2017, 2017 Summer Movies, Crown Heights, The Shawshank Redemption, Matt Ruskin, Colin Warner, LaKeith Lee Stanfield, Lakeith Stanfield, Short Term 12, Get Out, Carl King, Nnamdi Asomugha, NFL, Natalie Paul, Bill Camp, William Robedee, Mark De Gli Antoni, Ava DuVernay, 13th, movie review, film review, movie commentary, film commentary, social commentary, life lessons, life lessons from movies, life lessons from film, life lessons from films, U.S. prison system, Donald Shanahan, Every Movie Has a Lesson, CIFCC, Chicago Independent Film Critics CircleComment