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Red Sparrow plays as an average suspense spy thriller
Francis Lawrence directs Jennifer Lawrence as an acclaimed ballerina who is recruited to join the Sparrow program, a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her scummy uncle offers Dominika and her mother ...
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Riverdale :: Love is a powderkeg
After a hiatus of Olympian proportions, Riverdale is back with the tantalizingly titled 'The Hills Have Eyes', another famous movie title. But the episode bears little to the movie which featured a family whose car broke down on a deserted ...
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Death hangs over The Good Fight
The Good Fight, the first original series from the CBS All Access streaming service, returns for its second season with a gripping and entertaining episode steeped in death. There are several deaths that shake things up in the series' return ...
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Six time Oscar nominee Darkest Hour comes to Blu-ray
Hollywood (or the film industry) is a funny thing. It seems like every couple of years there are competing films about the same subject which leads to a lot of hair-pulling and schedule shenanigans to give enough space between the ...
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The Party should be a play instead of a film
Whenever a movie is intentionally in black and white, it makes you wonder if the point is to be thematic or artistic. Black and white on film is legitimately different than color on film, but digitally? It’s not really the ...
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Game Night has winners & losers
By the look of the calendar on the wall, it's time for yet another comedy with Jason Bateman as a put-upon schlub. It's certainly a niche that he's parlayed into a successful career on the big screen, while he actually ...
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Annihilation is a real conversation piece
Writer / director Alex Garland is no stranger to the sci-fi genre having scripted many well-regarded titles including 28 Days Later, Sunshine (a personal favorite), and Dredd, and both wrote and directed the modern science fiction classic Ex Machina. Garland ...
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The Monkey King 3 is a fun if befuddling addition to the Chinese film series
One of the most famous pieces of Chinese mythos is the 16th Century novel 'Journey to the West' by Wu Cheng’en, and it has inspired many, many adaptations. One of the best is the prequel version by director Stephen Chow, ...
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Black Panther is a new breed of superhero
The last few Marvel movies have been all about the spectacle, cramming as much into the movie as possible sometimes successfully (Thor: Ragnarok) and sometimes a little less so (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2; Avengers: Age of Ultron). I ...
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Flaming Star Is What Awaits Elvis Presley Over His Shoulder
I started a blog site last year, Elvis Is Everywhere. Because it's true: Elvis, indeed, is everywhere.It's been a running gag ever since I first heard musician Mojo Nixon's iconic single 'Elvis Is Everywhere' originally released in 1987. ('Elvis is ...
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Star Trek: Discovery :: Passing the torch
We've been building up to this big Federation / Klingon conflict for weeks now and wondering how the war with the Klingons can be course corrected in order to make things mesh with Star Trek canon as we know it ...
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Innocent Blood Review :: Warner Archive Collection brings the classic vampire movie to Blu-ray
In 1992, John Landis brought us the world of vampires mixed with the mob, a movie I never knew I needed. The director of An American Werewolf in London returned to the horror genre with Innocent Blood, a film that ...
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