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Restraining teenagers in the classroom? I always knew education would come to this; teenagers already feel adults would like nothing better than to see them in chains. Leave it to the British then to combine high IQs with the zombie plague and create one of the best ...
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- By Loron Hays
There are few mainstream movies that leave me feeling inspired anymore. I can appreciate a good movie, for sure, but those magical films that leave me electrically charged or near tears are few and far between. La La Land is one of those rare films that somehow cuts ...
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The night has descended once again across Cineplexes everywhere with the arrival of the fifth entry in the ongoing Underworld series. The war between vampires and lycans is far from over. While Blood Wars won’t earn itself any new fans to the franchise, the gothic series makes for ...
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Holy Sith! Rogue One is a hit. Stop reading, folks. March yourself to the theater, plop down your money, and go enjoy the first theatrically-released Star Wars spinoff. You will cheer, applaud, and pay to see it again and again. And, yes, it bumps right up against the beginning ...
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…in which writer/director James Gunn (Slithers) invites us to dance right alongside him to the deep cuts of the 1970s that he has playing on the turntable in his head AND heart. Can I get an amen! Our lovable ragtag gang of spaced invaders is back! ...
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How far would you go to break on through to the other side? That answer probably depends upon the situation and the person. All of which makes soaking in the sounds of A Dark Song so incredibly rewarding. It is easily on par with The Witch when it comes to mood ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
Though it took nearly 40 years, the Alien franchise has come full circle with the release of the latest chapter in the saga, Alien: Covenant, a film which picks up some ten years after 2014’s Prometheus and acts as a direct prequel to 1979’s original. That’s right, four decades after ...
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The magic in the kingdom is still there, mateys. Yo ho! Directed by Norwegians Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg (Kon-Tiki) and written by Jeff Nathanson, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales moves swiftly, energized by the new blood involved in the project. ...
Read more: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales - Blu-ray Review
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Fist Fight is the laziest and sloppiest “comedy” to come out of Hollywood in recent memory. Mean-spirited and brutal, the film simply kills any and every chance it has at successfully being funny thanks to the over-the-top violence it embraces as two unhinged teachers ...
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- By Christopher Symonds
Well, that’s more like it. Warner Bros. entry into a shared universe of super heroes on film has been a lot more miss than hit. I, admittedly a lifelong DC Comics’ reader, have grown tired of the comparisons made between Marvel’s output and everyone else’s ...
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Leave it to LEGO to get Batman right. Forget DC’s cinematic universe of disappointments, man, because at this point in the game all they have is Wonder Woman. Will Arnett’s vocal characterization of The Dark Knight is exactly what the stalled franchise needs after the two ...
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…in which Nietzsche, forever staring into that damned abyss, is proven right once again. It is us! It is us! ...
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As the undead do, Universal’s stable of legendary monsters rises from the cloak of darkness in the form of The Mummy, which is to be the first chapter in what the studio is calling the Dark Universe, its very own version of a cinematic franchise. Hey, Disney, Warner, and others ...
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- By Michelle Duy
Jackie Burke (Robert De Niro) has fallen on hard times lately. He used to star in a hit sitcom, at the height of his comedy career. But now he barely gets by, relying on occasional nostalgic comedy shows and loans from his exasperated brother (Danny DeVito). During one ...
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“Face it, Tiger. You just hit the jackpot.” It’s the line Mary Jane says to Peter Parker when, in the comic book, he first sets eyes on her. It’s sort of how I feel after watching this movie. We. Just. Hit. The. Jackpot. om Holland is the full package. He is both Peter Parker and Spider-Man ...
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Hello, Oscars! Allow me to introduce you to your first 2017 contender for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor at the next Academy Awards. War for the Planet of the Apes is THAT good ...
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You can keep your Kate Beckinsale. Move over Milla! It’s official. Charlize Theron is the Wonder Woman we need. With Atomic Blonde, Theron becomes THE female action star by which all others should be measured against. The character she plays, Agent Lorraine Broughton of ...
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The pigtails. The big, buggy eyes. That wretched smile. That damn doll is back. And she’s ready for her turn to guide you through a funhouse of holy hell. Annabelle sits in the gathering darkness of a closed closet. A little girl stands on the other side of the door ...
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Screenwriter Taylor Sheridan concludes his American frontier trilogy with Wind River, a suspenseful murder mystery set in the snow-covered barrens of Wyoming. Sheridan burst on the scene with his blistering essay on the epidemic of violence along the Texas/Mexico border with ...
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He wields a magical sword and a stylized sense of swagger. He’s King Arthur for the hipsters and he’s hoping to make a big splash on blu-ray. Fingers crossed or whatever ...
Read more: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) - Blu-ray Review
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Director Andrew Muschietti and screenwriters Chase Palmer and Cary Fukunaga do something very interesting with their big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s hugely popular novel It. They take the thrills and chills of horror and, rather than use them as a cheap means ...
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Now, this is how you build a franchise...with sock puppets ...
Read more: Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie - Blu-ray Review
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“C’mon you apes, you wanna live forever?!” ...
Read more: Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars (2017) - Blu-ray Review
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Director Matthew Vaughn likes to get people talking. Recall, if you will, Kick-Ass and the choice vocabulary uttered by Chloë Grace Moretz as Hit Girl. It’s his thing, you know. Well, audiences are going to be talking about the hot bedroom action in his new film for months. It’s a great ...
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The DC Comics & Warner Bros. Animation co-production venture is already a very successful enterprise and, with Gotham by Gaslight coming soon, they continue to be of interest. Comic book fans have a lot of animated features to celebrate over the years. They were ...
Read more: Justice League: The New Frontier - Commemorative Edition (2008) - Blu-ray Review
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Happy Death Day should have been good. Groundhog Day redone as a teen slasher horror? Are you kidding me? Count me in! The opportunity to watch a miserable prig of a person on the receiving end of the perfect comeuppance... over and over. A circular loop of bloody ...
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This is the story of a man who says just about everything that comes into his head. Wilson is a brutally honest middle-aged misanthrope (Woody Harrelson) who longs for a family, after friends move away and his father’s death leaves him all alone. Luckily it turns out he ...
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- By Christopher Symonds
Some seventeen films into the MCU, one marvels (see what we did there?) at the sheer volume and consistency of their output in the last decade. There isn’t a single entry in this shared universe that this reviewer hasn’t liked. They’re not all home runs, and, if I think of my ...
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Seven years later….
DUN-DUN-DUNNNNN!!!! ...
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Hi-Ho Silver!
There aren’t many films as flawless in tone, performance, and spirit as The Philadelphia Story. From beginning to end, director George Cukor’s film is perfectly balanced with charm and wit and, of course ...
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- The Amityville Horror House
- The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
- The Death of Actress Jane Russell
- The Death of Brandon Lee
- The Death of Chris Farley
- The Death of Dominique Dunne
- The Death of George Reeves - the Original Superman