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| Short Redhead Reel Reviews date from 1986 to present. This main page lists the five most recent film reviews. To view a complete list of all films reviewed this month, see Previous Reviews on the right. |
Saturday, July 18, 2026 |
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In the Company of Wolves: An American Journey |
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NR 2026 |
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[Available July 17 on various VOD platforms.] Jeff Bridges narrates Susan Kucera's captivating, educational, insightful, 83-minute documentary dominated by awesome cinematography, photography, and scenery that intertwines the mythic allure of wolves with intimate personal stories, weaves the delicate tapestry of folklore, personal trauma, and the powerful relationship between people and wolves while showcasing various animals, such as wolves, deer, bison, cattle, gophers, moose, sheep, dogs, horses, antelope, elk, foxes, eagles, birds, bears, and owls, primarily in the grasslands of the American West and consists of archival photography, video clips, and interview snippets with Notre Dame history professor and author Jon Coleman, Wolf Brother author Michelle Paver, Shoshone tribal buffalo representative Jason Baldes, Wolves in Beowolf and Other English TextThe Heartbeat of the Wild author David Quammen, cultural teacher and Apsáalooke (Crow) nation member Noel Two Leggins, education technician at Grant-Kohrs Ranch Christal Tongish, native American ecologist and "The Carnivore Way" author Cristina Eisenberg, horseman Val Giessler, ranchrider Bill Capron, rangeland scientist Matt Barnes, Apsáalooke (Crow) nation member Lissa Whiteclay ranch owner Mark Harvey, sheep ranchers Cameron and Clint Krebs, conservation biologist and zoologist Isla Fishburn.
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Love on Tap |
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NR 2026 |
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[Available July 14 on various VOD platforms.] After a smart, passionate, creative, alpaca-owning, overworked, Albuquerque craft brewer (Kennedy McMann) inherits the Guzzlers Brewery in New Mexico from her supportive father (Butch Peel) and struggles to pay back the loan to the marshmallow-obsessed bank owner (Joel De La Fuente) in Karnes' romantic, upbeat, Hallmark-esque, predictable, 90-minute comedy, she finds herself smitten with a well-meaning, advice-giving New York marketing guru (Alex Moffat) who wants to energize and turn her business around as dedicated staff (Zoe Colletti, Steven Ogg, Jamey Maurice Clay, et al.) rally around her.
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Pelé: Birth of a Legend |
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PG 2026 |
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[Played July 8 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on various VOD platforms.] Jeff and Michael Zimbalist's entertaining, emotionally powerful, coming-of-age, richly photographed, heartfelt, inspirational but one-sided, 107-minute, 2016 biographical film in which his Pelé name became famous after bullies mispronounced Dico (Kevin de Paula/Leonardo Lima Carvalho), who grew up poor in Bauru, Brazil, in the São Paulo slums with his talented, supportive former footballer father (Seu Jorge) and housekeeper mother (Marina Nunes), then quickly became legendary at age 17 for his Ginga-style soccer when he led Brazil's national team coached by manager (Vincent D'Onofrio) to its first FIFA World Cup win in 1958, and the rest is history.
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Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass |
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R 2026 |
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[Opens July 10 in theaters.] After her fiancé (Michael Cassidy) meets an author Jennifer Aniston) at a book signing and foolishly decides to use his free, one-time pass to sleep with the celebrity in David Wain's entertaining, funny, wacky, cameo-dotted (Richard Kind, Weird Al' Yankovic, Henry Winkler, Richard Ellis, Elizabeth Perkins, Penn Jillette, Robert Herjavec, and Michael Ian Black), 94-minute parody, a hairstylist (Zoey Deutch) heads to Los Angeles with her coworker (Miles Gutierrez-Riley) to find and sleep with actor Jon Hamm to even the score with the help of a photographer (Ken Marino), a fired talent agent (Ben Wang), and actor John Slattery while a hotheaded Italian assassin (Sabrina Impacciatore) and her gun-packing henchmen (Joe Lo Truglio and Mather Zickel) are desperate to find her briefcase that got switched at the airport.
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Rental Family |
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PG-13 2026 |
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[Played July 1 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on various VOD platforms.] After reluctantly taking a job at a rent-a-family agency owned by a Japanese businessman (Takehiro Hikari), he meets other of his employees (Mari Yamamoto, Kimura Bun, et al.) at a fake funeral and accepts roles as a fiancé to a closeted woman (Misato Morita) at her wedding to her already-married wife, pretends to be a journalist interviewing a dementia-stricken Japanese actor (Akira Emote) who just wants to go to his childhood home where some memories are buried, plays an absentee father hired to a single mother (Shinji Shinozaki) to a little girl (Shannon Mahina Gorman) hoping to be accepted at a prestigious private academy in Hikari's poignant, moving, well-acted, bittersweet, 107-minute film, an aimless, financially struggling American actor (Brendan Fraser) moves to Tokyo permanently when he had wide success in a television toothpaste commercia seven years earlier, finds himself really connecting with his clients, and discovers a purpose and a new direction to explore.
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©2026 by Wendy Schadewald
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