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Friend Request was completed in March of 2014 and is finally seeing its theatrical release from German director Simon Verhoeven. This has a been a trend lately with smaller companies as they can’t get their films out to the general ...
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Last week’s episode of The Orville was a surprise with a lot of really funny scenes and Seth MacFarlane perfectly balanced humor and drama very well. The previous episode ended with Bortus, a Moclan who is a member of a ...
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Back in February 2014, 20th Century Fox released Kingsman: The Secret Service, a bold new take on the action-spy film, almost a modern version of the classic Bond film with eye-popping visuals, great action and music, irreverent humor, and a ...
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Tickets for Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, Les Misérables, will go on sale at 10:00 AM on Friday, September 22, 2017 for its much-anticipated Washington, D.C. engagement at The National Theatre, ...
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This week's episode titled "Neighbors from Hell" posed a couple of intriguing questions, at least in my head. Like who exactly is the leader of the creepy, murderous clown cult? And which pair of neighbors are the "bad guys"? Because ...
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Back in June when The Mummy was released thetrically, Universal Pictures had high hopes that the film would launch their newly designated "Dark Universe" of films consisting of all the studio's classic monsters -- Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, The ...
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The latest episode of Rick and Morty was called “Morty’s Mind Blowers” and it’s another classic. This show has not slowed down in its third season. Memory manipulation as a sci-fi trope is very old, in the realm of The ...
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Last week’s episode of The Orville left a sour taste in my mouth. I was expecting a comedy spoof of Star Trek with a style of its own but what resulted was a surprisingly dramatic show set in space. I ...
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Let’s be honest, Steve Martin as a gangster and Rick Moranis as an uptight FBI agent sounds like a dream come true. The 1990 Warner Bros film My Blue Heaven stars Steve Martin as Vinnie Antonelli, an Italian mob boss ...
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So what is it I’ve always said? Darren Aronofsky is my favorite director, not because he has the greatest movies ever, but because he tries more daringly than any other “mainstream” director. His filmmaking dares you to feel like you ...
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I feel like Korean cinema has gone through a lot of interesting growth over the last decade. Movies like to copy each other, like how Western movies began to copy Korean action-psychological thriller Oldboy in grittiness, pain, and visceral damage, ...
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It’s difficult for me to write about Rick and Morty because it’s among perhaps one or two of the densest shows currently on TV. But I’m going to give it a shot and try again, after a long hiatus of ...
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