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Orange is the New Black started with a huge bang, becoming the unexpected viral binge of the summer. People decried the follow up seasons as inferior, but for the most part, the fourth season was mostly highly acclaimed. One of ...
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Animated movies are a genre with a lot of mainstream and a few indie releases. We tend to get a lot more foreign smaller animated movies than domestic ones, but it happens. I’ve watched a lot of things like Adult ...
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment unleashes Fifty Shades Darker Unrated Edition, plunging fans even deeper into the mesmerizing, hidden world of Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele.When a wounded Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) tries to entice a cautious Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) ...
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If anyone asks you to describe this episode of Riverdale in one word, that word would have to be "twisted." This week's movie related title "Anatomy of a Murder" is just that, taking us through all the twists and turns ...
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Let me start here by saying I absolutely loved the first Guardians of the Galaxy. After a lengthy spell of traditional superhero movies from Marvel, more dramatic than comedic, the film was a refreshing breath of air, an epic sci-fi ...
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The title of this week's episode, "To Riverdale and Back Again", was perplexing as all the others had been actual movie titles. Turns out this one is taken from a TV movie ... based on Archie Comics characters! In the ...
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It's the week all of us Feud: Bette and Joan fans have been awaiting and dreading -- the last chapter. And what an emotional, melancholy ending it was after seven weeks of laughs, drama, camp and brilliant acting. This final ...
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Inspired by true events, see what happens when a couple vacationing in the Bahamas is hunted by a group of modern-day pirates in Isolation. Boasting an all-star cast including Luke Mably, Tricia Helfer , Marie Avgeropoulos, Stephen Lang, and Dominic ...
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Back in 1987 director John Boorman gave us the charming wartime, slice of life film Hope and Glory which was a semi-autobiographical take on his own childhood growing up in England during World War II. That film had a specific ...
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Every now and then a film comes along that is so powerfully driven and thought-provoking in its scope that words cannot even express the impression it leaves behind. And yet, as a film critic, it's my job to put it ...
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Just because a film is based upon true-life events doesn’t always mean it should in fact be made. I recently viewed 20th Century Women, which arrived on Blu-ray and DVD on March 28. Starring Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, ...
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Ellie Kemper stars as Kimmy Schmidt, a woman who escapes from a doomsday cult and starts life over in New York. Armed with just a backpack, light-up sneakers, and a couple of way-past-due library books, she's ready to take on ...
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