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- Created: 17 January 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
What does a filmmaker do when attempting to revive a franchise that has lain dormant for more than a decade since the last entry? In the case of Bad Boys For Life, directors Adil and Bilall do what most other filmmakers have done: they adapt the story to fit a new cultural landscape, they riff ...
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- Created: 10 January 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
The new comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson called The Hustle is an almost identical remake of the 1988 classic comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which starred Michael Caine and Steve Martin - itself a remake of Marlon Brando’s Bedtime Story. I say “almost” because ...
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- Created: 10 January 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
After a steady two-year string of near misses, complete misses, and total misfires, one is left to ponder what has become of the once shining star of Tiffany Haddish. Ever since her scene-stealing turn in 2017’s Girl's Trip, studios have been clamoring to ...
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- Created: 03 January 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
At one point in Just Mercy, the new film from director, co-writer Destin Daniel Cretton (The Glass Castle), the film’s main character Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) points out that “the opposite of poverty isn’t wealth, it’s justice.” Those words set the tone for the tangle of legal and ...
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- Created: 27 December 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Raise your hand if the news of yet another adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved novel, Little Women coming to theaters on Christmas Day failed to jingle your bells. Okay, we can all put them down now. After all, with so many previous adaptations – including 1949’s version starring Elizabeth Taylor and ...
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- Created: 24 December 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
You ever get that feeling your stomach that something bad is going to happen? That’s the question the private investigator at the center of this thriller asks us during Blood Hound’s wild (an unexpected) opening. Pay attention to that scene. While the violent events that it documents might rattle ...
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- Created: 20 December 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
There’s a reason Cats had such a successful Broadway run as one of the longest-running musicals in history with over 7,000 performances spanning some 18 years. Many reasons, actually. The biggest being the brilliant songs and catchy tunes from Andrew Lloyd Webber. They are simply wonderful, and ...
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- Created: 17 December 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
If one of the final moments of director J. J. Abrams’ Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker - two lightsabers sinking into the sands of Tattooine - hits you rather hollow, it is by the director’s choice. The Skywalker Saga is over with this film, but what’s shocking is that it really doesn’t feel ...
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- Created: 16 December 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Just in time for the new decade comes a new way to haunt! Inner Ghosts has arrived. ...
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- Created: 10 December 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
You can run! You can hide! There’s no escaping the terror that awaits on this island of horrible things. We learn this from the wild and wicked opening of Crypsis as a woman, tripping over herself to get away from ...
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