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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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Best Performances of Bryan Cranston

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Bryan Cranston has won multiple awards and universal acclaim for his work on TV’s “Breaking Bad” and “Malcolm in the Middle”. But with the release of “The Upside”, I look at his big screen highlights: SAL NEALON, “LAST FLAG FLYING” (2017) In a performance that deserved him an Oscar nomination, Cranston shows an incredible range […]
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‘Last Flag Flying’: An Awards Season Casualty

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You’d think that a film with Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston and Laurence Fishburne – from writer/director Richard Linklater – would be either a box office hit, an overwhelming critical darling, an awards contender, or a combination of the three. But “Last Flag Flying” hasn’t flown high… or really at all. And it’s honestly a mystery […]
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‘Last Flag Flying’ Review

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“Last Flag Flying” is co-written and directed by Richard Linklater – the man behind “Boyhood”, “Bernie” and the “Before” trilogy with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. This time around, he takes a different approach to his usual quirky, offbeat filmmaking style. “Last Flag Flying” is much more of an actors movie than a profound directorial […]
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‘Power Rangers’ Review

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I want to begin this review with an apology – to all the movies in the past that I blasted for having extremely long set-ups. The reigning champ in this category was 2015’s “Fantastic Four” reboot, which was essentially “Fantastic Four Origins” with one action scene at the end. “Power Rangers” is structured exactly the […]
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‘The Infiltrator’ Review

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Bryan Cranston continues his winning streak with “The Infiltrator” – a film which proves that a true story crime thriller doesn’t need shoot ’em-up scenes every 10 minutes to keep you hooked. It’s 1985. The War on Drugs is the hot-button political issue and Cranston’s undercover U.S. Customs agent Bob Mazur decides to take-on one, […]
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Bryan Cranston

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With 6-time Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Bryan Cranston Lights Camera Jackson has been co-starring in photographs with his favorite celebrities from the entertainment, news and sports world since he was 6 years old. Jackson’s first picture with a celeb was snapped in January of 2005, at the Center For Disability Services Telethon in Albany, […]
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