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‘The Fabelmans’ Movie Review

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Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” is inspired by the iconic director’s childhood and early love of seeing and making movies. It’s a drama filled with conflict, pain, and characters feeling sad and depressed. Ironically, it’s also one of the lightest dramas I’ve ever seen in recent years. Maybe that’s because the film is replete with corny, […]
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‘Living’ Movie Review

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Bill Nighy has charmed audiences on stage and screen for more than five decades, particularly in his native England. He became a household name to U.S. audiences with his role as singer Billy Mack in 2003 rom-com “Love Actually”. Memorable characters in two “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” installments followed, along […]
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‘See How They Run’ Movie Review

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Riding the popularity of recent murder mystery films such as “Knives Out” (and the upcoming sequel), the “Murder on the Orient Express” and “Death on the Nile” remakes, and the generically titled “Murder Mystery”, comes a more tongue-in-cheek approach to the whodunit genre. Agatha Christie’s play “The Mousetrap” has been performed continuously in London’s West […]
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‘Gigi & Nate’ Movie Review

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“Gigi & Nate” is inspired by the true story of a young man and his life-changing friendship with a service animal, who happens to be a capuchin monkey. 17-year-old Nate Gibson (played by Charlie Rowe) was just weeks away from starting college when he contracted meningitis, which resulted in him becoming a quadriplegic. Some of […]
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‘Jerry & Marge Go Large’ Movie Review

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In the mood for a quality movie that’s a good old-fashioned good time? Then hit the jackpot with “Jerry & Marge Go Large”, streaming on Paramount+. I’ve liked several of David Frankel’s films, including “The Devil Wears Prada”, and largely overlooked “The Big Year” and “One Chance”. He knows how to make personal stories for […]
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‘The Valet’ Movie Review

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“The Valet” is a rom-com remake of a 2006 French film. Popular Mexican actor Eugenio Derbez serves as executive producer and star. Antonio plays a Los Angeles valet who lives in apartment with his mother and is going through a separation with his wife (they share custody of their teen son). Antonio crosses paths with […]
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‘Operation Mincemeat’ Movie Review

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“Operation Mincemeat” is the Britain-based, true story, WWII drama of the 1943 secret operation to pull-off a massive Allied invasion of occupied Sicily. Or, as Colin Firth’s Naval officer Ewen Montagu says, “We’re going to play a humiliating trick on Hitler.” Firth headlines the year’s best ensemble cast to date. Montagu teams with fellow officer […]
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‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore’ Movie Review

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The magic is dead. At least the magic that comes from the Wizarding World. I wasn’t a fan of 2016’s “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” and enjoyed 2018 follow-up “The Crimes of Grindelwald” only a smidge more. This third installment in the “Harry Potter” prequel franchise, “The Secrets of Dumbledore”, is the least […]
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‘Morbius’ Movie Review

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One of the most high-profile films, with the highest number of release delays, during the pandemic was “Morbius”. Jared Leto initially joined the Marvel universe, as Dr. Michael Morbius, when filming began first in 2019. Then came the delays — and the re-shoots — both in 2020 and 2021. And it shows. It was unclear, […]
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‘The Lost City’ Movie Review

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Former rom-com queen Sandra Bullock returns to the genre in “The Lost City”. In real life Bullock is 16 years older than male love interest Channing Tatum. Such an age-gap is often a non-issue in the movie world, plus Bullock has down this path before, falling for 12-years-younger Ryan Reynolds in 2009’s “The Proposal”. The […]
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