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‘The Space Between Us’ Movie Review

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Sixteen-year-old Gardner Elliot (Asa Butterfield) has lived his whole life with a team of scientists on Mars. He’s always longed to see Earth to find the father he’s never known and to meet a beautiful street-smart girl named Tulsa he’s become friends with online. But when his chance finally comes, doctors discover his heart can’t […]
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‘Gold’ Movie Review

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GOLD is the epic tale of one man’s pursuit of the American dream, to discover gold. Starring Matthew McConaughey as Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, he teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on an journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Getting the gold […]
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‘xXx: Return of Xander Cage’ Movie Review

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Extreme athlete turned government operative Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) coming out of self-imposed exile and on a collision course with deadly Xiang. (PARAMOUNT) Vin Diesel is best known for his roles in the acclaimed 1999 animated film “The Iron Giant”, the 2005 Disney family comedy “The Pacifier”, Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” and the “Fast […]
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‘Sleepless’ Movie Review

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SLEEPLESS stars Jamie Foxx as undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs, who is caught in a high stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground. When a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal gangsters kidnaps Downs’ teenage son. In one sleepless night he will have to rescue his son, evade an […]
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‘Passengers’ Movie Review

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Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt star in a high-stakes adventure about two passengers, Aurora and Jim, onboard a spaceship transporting them to a new life on another planet. The trip takes a deadly turn when their hibernation pods mysteriously wake them 90 years before they reach their destination. As they try to unravel the mystery […]
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‘Rogue One’ Movie Review

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The daughter of an Imperial scientist joins the Rebel Alliance in a risky move to steal the Death Star plans. (DISNEY/LUCASFILM) “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” is the second “Star Wars” film under the Disney name. It is the first, direct, live-action spinoff of the saga. 2015’s core franchise reboot, and seventh chapter, “Star […]
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‘Hidden Figures’ Movie Review

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Hidden Figures tells the incredible untold story of Katherine Jonson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae) – brilliant African-American women working at NASA who served as the brains behind the launch into orbit of astronaut John Glenn, a stunning achievement that turned around the Space Race. The visionary trio […]
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‘The Founder’ Movie Review

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Directed by John Lee Hancock (SAVING MR. BANKS), THE FOUNDER features the true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a struggling salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise […]
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‘Moana’ Movie Review

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For centuries, the greatest sailors in the world masterfully navigated the vast Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, 3,000 years ago, their voyages stopped for a millennium – and no one knows exactly why. From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes “Moana,” a sweeping, CG-animated feature film about an adventurous teenager who is […]
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‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ Movie Review

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The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school. (WARNER BROS.) Eddie Redmayne won the Best Actor Academy Award for his performance as Stephen Hawking in the 2014 biopic drama “The Theory of Everything”. Colin Farrell won a Golden […]
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