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It was necessary to take a little time and mull over the finale of Preacher before posting about it. I needed to determine if it did enough for me to want to come back for more. Because over the course ...
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When we last left our heroine Laurel, she had a little problem ... bugs. And no exterminator was going to be able to help, at least not in the traditional sense. After a call to 911 -- and even they ...
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Jason Bourne born picks up a mere nine years after Bourne’s last appearance in 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum. Bourne, still on the run after uncovering and exposing CIA black projects, hasn’t been seen since – until an old ally of ...
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So here’s a question for you: why is that female-driven comedies get a lot of flack? Institutional sexism is my guess, but unfortunately sometimes such movies aren’t as good as the talent they attract. Some people hated Ghostbusters and Bridesmaids, ...
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The summer of 2016 has proven to be a fun-filled roller coaster of a ride if you’re a Ghostbusters fan. Not only was I pleasantly surprised by how entertaining the reboot is and how the new female characters could be ...
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Preacher has got me stumped.I mean ... have you ever been puttering along, working through the ins and outs of a television program and, suddenly, you realize you've lost your way?Not from the plot of a program. That's an easy ...
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Not every movie franchise can go a decade between sequels. So, it should be worthy of note that Barbershop: The Next Cut, a film that came out roughly twelve years after the previous installment, succeeds at being quite a worthy ...
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Ten years ago a Chinese martial arts movie was released in the US as Kill Zone and was a sort of typical Hong Kong martial arts cop drama. One of the characters was an assassin played by Wu Jing and ...
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After sitting through the dismal Star Trek Into Darkness and all of its "he's not Khan" bull -- we all knew he was Khan before Benedict Cumberbatch finally said his name was Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaan -- I really wasn't sure if I ...
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I have been a fan of Absolutely Fabulous since the beginning, since the show first aired on Comedy Central back in the early 1990s. It was heartbreaking when star and writer Jennifer Saunders decided to end the series, and a ...
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You have had to have been living on a remote island with no internet access for the last year to not know there is a new Ghostbusters movie hitting the big screen. You probably also know that from the second ...
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Last year I sung the praises constantly of Sicario and now I’ll do it again. That movie was great, one of the best movies about the drug war I’ve seen. Beautiful cinematography, stellar acting, and hidden messages of real depth ...
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