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The Decade of Margot Robbie

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This December will mark 10 years since Margot Robbie broke through on the big screen in Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” and quickly became a household name. The Aussie actress appeared about two months earlier in Richard Curtis’ romance drama “About Time”, alongside Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy and Domhnall Gleeson (who Robbie would […]
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‘Dreamland’ Movie Review

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The trend of studios picking-up movies previously in limbo continues. Paramount, the studio that helped give Margot Robbie her big break with 2013’s “The Wolf of Wall Street”, is now distributing her latest film. “Dreamland” first screened in April 2019 at the Tribeca Film Festival. The setting is 1935 Texas. 17-year-old Eugene (played by Finn […]
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‘Bombshell’ Review

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If you’re into the world of TV news and current events, then “Bombshell” has to be one of your most highly anticipated movies of 2019. It’s also one of the fastest turnarounds for a narrative film “based on a true story”. Yes, the sexual harassment case involving FOX News chief Roger Ailes was pre-Harvey Weinstein/ […]
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‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Review

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Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film is not just a love letter to Tinseltown – it’s a full-blown marriage proposal. “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is his look at the motion picture and TV industry in 1969, through the eyes of both fictional characters and real people who lived during that time. This blending is one […]
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‘I, Tonya’ Review

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“I, Tonya” made a big splash at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, instantly skyrocketing stars Margot Robbie and Allison Janney to the top of the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards season races. And boy, do they deserve to be there. This is the second recent movie based on an event that […]
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The Scene Stealers of 2016

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At the halfway mark of 2016, I wrote about my 10 favorite performances of the year thus far. Now, as we make our way into the final quarter of 2016, here are the 8 breakout supporting/minor performances (varying in length and across the genre spectrum) from seven actors and…a bird: Will Arnett, “Popstar: Never Stop […]
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‘Suicide Squad’ Review

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“Suicide Squad” was supposed to be DC’s big-budget superhero ensemble action dramedy extravaganza answer to Marvel’s high-energy, highly entertaining “Guardians of the Galaxy”. And while it tries really, really hard – it fails to live-up to expectations. The biggest buzz surrounding the production and anticipation of “Suicide Squad” was Jared Leto’s portrayal of The Joker, […]
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‘Focus’ Review

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Will Smith hasn’t starred in a movie since 2013’s sci-fi disaster “After Earth”, a Smith family affair that also involved son Jaden as co-star and wife Jada as co-producer. Oh, and M. Night Shyamalan was the director. And…it laid an egg. If Smith believed, after reading the script for “Focus”, that this could be his […]
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