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‘Race’ Review

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True-life sports dramas have dominated movie screens in recent years. We’ve seen biopics on iconic boxers, golfers, horses, baseball, basketball, football, hockey and even cricket players. Now comes “Race”, the story of legendary track and field star Jesse Owens. The title has multiple meanings as this two-hour, 15-minute saga not only focuses on Owens’ life […]
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‘Deadpool’ Review

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For 18-35 year-old comic book, superhero, Marvel, “X-Men” and diehard Ryan Reynolds fans – “Deadpool” will likely be your movie of the year. The makers clearly set-out to make the ultimate R-rated “anti-superhero movie” superhero movie, packed with ultra-violence, raunchy humor and an unlikable lead character. And in that respect, they succeeded brilliantly. But for […]
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‘Hail, Caesar!’ Review

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The Coen Brothers have crafted the latest in a recent string of movies about movies with “Hail, Caesar!” – a comedy designed around a major, fictitious Hollywood studio of the 1950s. Josh Brolin is terrific as Eddie Mannix, the head of production of Capital Pictures. Dressed more like a detective that a studio big shot, […]
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‘The Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films 2016’ Review

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I look forward to checking-out The Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films every year. Normally, within the group of five, there are at least one or two standouts. However, that’s not the case this year. Instead, we have a lineup that is universally weak in story and largely unimpressive. Here are the Nominees: “Bear Story” (Chile, […]
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‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ Review

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“Kung Fu Panda 3” is DreamWorks Animation’s 32nd theatrical feature, but their first ever released in the month of January. A big-budget, high-quality animated film this early in the year is rare, and while this third chapter of Po the Panda, Master Shifu and the Furious Five doesn’t quite live-up to the original, it’s fast, […]
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‘Dirty Grandpa’ Review

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Well, congratulations to “Dirty Grandpa” – which is the first Worst Movie of 2016. And it could hold on to that title for awhile. This film is rude, crude, offensive and wrong in so many ways – but that’s not the reason “Dirty Grandpa” is a spectacular failure. “Ted 2” was all those things and […]
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‘Ride Along 2’ Review

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Ice Cube and Kevin Hart made for a fun and likable pair in 2014’s buddy-cop action comedy “Ride Along”. In just two short years, Hart’s star-power has significantly risen to (sadly) the point of overkill. He dominates the screen in “Ride Along 2” and his brand of over-the-top, wacky humor mixed with an occasionally smart […]
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‘Daddy’s Home’ Review

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Five years after they were “The Other Guys”, Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg re-team for the refreshing and consistently funny final comedy of 2015, “Daddy’s Home”. The story centers around Ferrell’s Brad Whitaker, a mild-mannered radio executive in New Orleans who recently married Sara (“ER”‘s Linda Cardellini) and is now Step-Dad to her two children […]
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‘Point Break’ Review

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“Point Break” is a remake of a 90s action/crime/surfer film that was directed by future Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker”, “Zero Dark Thirty”) and starred Keanu Reeves and the late Patrick Swayze. It went on to earn Reeves the 1992 MTV Movie Award for “Most Desirable Male” and, for some reason, became a cult […]
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‘The Hateful Eight’ Review

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The eighth film directed by The King of Big Screen Blood, Mr. Quentin Tarantino, is appropriately titled “The Hateful Eight”. Like “Django Unchained” (his 2012 western for which he won an Original Screenplay Oscar), “The Hateful Eight” is about two hours and 45 minutes long, though this time Tarantino adds an intermission – as part […]
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