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‘Doctor Strange’ Review

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Doctor, Doctor: Gimme the news – I got a bad case of… Doctor Strange. This is the latest in a recent series of Marvel mistakes. Benedict Cumberbatch is completely miscast as the easily unlikable Dr. Stephen Strange. He’s an egotistical surgeon doing breakthrough work in the area of nerve regeneration – who’s also had an […]
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‘Loving’ Review

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The story of Richard and Mildred Loving is an incredibly important one. The Lovings were an interracial couple, living in Virginia in 1958, who were arrested following their marriage, which was illegal in that part of the South at the time. They were then forced to leave Virginia (or stay and go to prison), and for the next […]
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‘Inferno’ Review

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Less than two months after the release of “Sully”, Tom Hanks is already back on the big screen. He reprises his role as Professor Robert Langdon in “Inferno”, the third installment in director Ron Howard’s “Da Vinci Code” franchise. That film came-out a decade ago, and prequel “Angels & Demons” hit theaters in ‘09. Normally, […]
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‘Lion’ Review

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The beauty of “Lion” is its very simple, yet extremely powerful story. It’s based on a true one (and the less you know about it going in, the better). The way screenwriter Luke Davies and first-time feature film director Garth Davis (“Top of the Lake”) have adapted “Lion” from the page (the 2013 memoir, A Long […]
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‘Boo! A Madea Halloween’ Review

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Unlike most of his films, Tyler Perry’s latest, “Boo! A Madea Halloween”, wasn’t based on one of his stage plays. The concept actually came from a tiny gag in Chris Rock’s 2014 comedy “Top Five”. Instead of going to the movie Rock’s character had directed, everyone in a NYC multiplex was seeing a (then fictitious) […]
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‘Deepwater Horizon’ Review

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“Deepwater Horizon” is the latest entry in the “Contemporary True-Story of a Major American News Event” genre. Ripped from the headlines, with a script adapted from a New York Times article, director Peter Berg takes us through the events of April 20, 2010, which resulted the loss of nearly a dozen lives and created the […]
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‘The Magnificent Seven’ Review

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When done right, modern attempts at the Western can rise above ordinary standards. A couple recent examples: 2010’s “True Grit” and last year’s “The Revenant”. Director Antoine Fuqua’s remake / re-imagining / re-do / re-shoot-em-up of 1960’s “The Magnificent Seven” has the feel and flavor of a “classic” Western, maybe more so than any other […]
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‘Mr. Church’ Review

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I could thoroughly describe how the low-budget drama, “Mr. Church”, is basically a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie that sugar-coats numerous serious issues and situations, including terminal cancer, divorce, single parenthood, both alcohol and child abuse, drunk driving and neglect. It’s also an extremely simple Circle of Life story that packs-in way too many coincidences […]
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‘Sully’ Review

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What does it mean to be deemed a hero? Clint Eastwood explored that question in his previous film, the powerhouse “American Sniper”, the story of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. Now, Eastwood, at 86, tackles another heroic figure – Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger – the man who pulled-off the “Miracle on the Hudson”. Tom Hanks anchors […]
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‘The Light Between Oceans’ Review

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The making of “The Light Between Oceans” brought together two of the industry’s shining stars: Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander. Their chemistry on screen, as a loving husband and wife, sparked a real-life romance off-screen, as the two have been “a couple” since filming took place in 2014. But this isn’t PerezHilton.com – this is […]
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