Monday Morning Critic Podcast

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**Monday Morning Critic Podcast**

My name is Darek Thomas and I am the host of Monday Morning Critic Podcast. My podcast is a labor of love created out of my passion for my guests, their work and a variety of shows, movies and people that have changed my life. Welcome to Monday Morning Critic.www.mmcpodcast.com

Latest Episodes:

20 Minute Movie Review: "The Irishman" Dec 12, 2019

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Darek Thomas breaks down "The Irishman"

(Episode 162) "The Devil Next Door" Director: Daniel Sivan. Dec 09, 2019

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A Cleveland grandfather is brought to trial in Israel, accused of being the infamous Nazi death camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible...

Director Daniel Sivan and I talk about his much talked about Documentary.

(Episode 161) "The Mandalorian" Actor: Tait Fletcher. Dec 04, 2019

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Tait Fletcher is an actor, speaker, former mma fighter, and stuntman.

He can currently be seen on Disney Plus as Paz Vizla (Heavy Mando) AND Alpha Trawler.

Tait's filmography includes:

John Wick, Breaking Bad and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.

Meet the very honest, generous and talented, Tate Fletcher.

(Episode 160) "Family Ties" Actor: Scott Valentine. Nov 25, 2019

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Born in Saratoga, New York Scott Valentine over came early adversity, to star in one of the greatest family shows (Family Ties) of all time and build a very strong filmography in short period of time.

Meet the very cool, very kind: Scott Valentine.

20 Minute Movie Review: " A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood." Nov 24, 2019

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Darek Thomas and Monday Morning Critic Podcast reviews "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood"

(Episode 159) "Star Wars" Academy Award Winning Editor: Paul Hirsch. Nov 12, 2019

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Paul Hirsch is an academy award winning editor who has been editing movies for over 50 years.

His Filmography includes Star Wars: A New Hope (Academy Award Winner), The Empire Strikes Back, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and so many more.

Meet the legendary Paul Hirsch.

(Episode 158) "Stranger Things" Actor: Jerri Tubbs. Nov 06, 2019

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Jerri Tubbs is an American actress known for her roles in Stranger Things, Into the Badlands and Ozark, among others. She will be playing the role of Margo in the upcoming 10th season of AMC’s The Walking Dead.

Jerri is originally from Newburgh Indiana. She grew up in San Jose, California and moved to Los Angeles to study acting at UCLA. Upon receiving her MFA in Acting, she trained with the celebrity acting coach Ivana Chubbuck at her studio in Hollywood. Her television and film credits include The Passage, Under the Dome, Valor, Logan Lucky and Pure Country, Pure Heart. Jerri was also recently cast in the Emmy-nominated series Cobra-Kai.

Meet the very cool and talented: Jerri Tubbs.

(Episode 157) "The Righteous Gemstones" Actor: Tony Cavalero. Nov 01, 2019

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Tony Cavalero is a fantastic actor with over 75 credits in his IMDB filmography.

His most recent work includes the Motley Crue movie "The Dirt" as Ozzy Osbourne and his portrayal as Keefe Chambers in HBO's "The Righteous Gemstones" is legendary.

Meet the very talented, kind and AWESOME: Tony Cavalero!

(Episode 156) "The Green Mile" Costume Designer: Karyn Wagner. Oct 25, 2019

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Costume Designer Karyn Wagner’s work can be seen in the iconic films of luminary directors, such as Frank Darabont’s The Green Mile, starring Tom Hanks; The Majestic, starring Jim Carrey; Nick Cassavettes’ The Notebook, starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams; D.J.Caruso’s The Salton Sea, with Val Kilmer and Vincent D’Onofrio; Eve’s Bayou, directed by Kasi Lemmons and starring Samuel L. Jackson; and Steven Soderbergh’s Underneath, starring Peter Gallagher. Her television credits include the Antoine Fuqua directed Murder Book, and the wildly successful Friday Night Lights series.

Karyn is a third generation film industry veteran and a native of California, whose grandfather met her grandmother on the set of an Erich Von Stroheim film. Karyn’s father, Richard Wagner, was a Sound Mixer, so she grew up on Hollywood studio backlots. Armed with a degree in Art History from University of California Davis, Karyn first worked in Production, and then in the Camera Department before finding her true passion of Costume Design, where her thirst for knowledge of the culture and sociology of a film’s period informs her designs.

Karyn’s recent credits include Lovelace, with Amanda Seyfried, James Franco and Peter Sarsgaard, Cake, starring Jennifer Aniston, and Underground, the historical antebellum drama from WGN America. Karyn’s most recent work can be seen in the AMC series Preacher, and in Mr. Church, a feature from Bruce Beresford starring Eddie Murphy and Britt Robertson.

(Episode 155) "Tell Me Who I Am" Alex and Marcus Lewis and Director Ed Perkins. Oct 16, 2019

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Alex and Marcus Lewis have lived a life that, without exaggeration, has probably never been experienced by any two brothers who have ever walked the earth.

Their story starts in 1982, when Alex, who was 18 and growing up in Sussex, was involved in a serious motorcycle accident. Hitting his head during the crash after losing his helmet, he slipped into a coma, only to wake up in the hospital without any memory of anything — except for the fact that he recognized Marcus, his identical twin. For the next few years, Marcus helped his brother regain a sense of who he was: This is where we live. These are your friends. This is where we’d go on vacation. This is your mother and father. It was an incredibly touching gesture on Marcus’ part, essentially serving as the memory bank for two brothers as he helped Alex regain a sense of himself and the life that he had lost.

Except, Marcus wasn’t telling his brother the entire story. A photograph Alex stumbled upon in their house triggered something in the young man — a sense that something wasn’t quite right. And when he confronted Marcus, it set in motion a series of revelations about their past that Marcus had hoped he could keep from his twin. But there was no stopping that now.-Mel Magazine.

Meet the incredible Alex and Marcus Lewis.