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Film Review – Toni Erdmann
What to make of Winfried, the elderly scamp whose idea of fun is playfully tricking a Fed Ex man into thinking he’s carrying a bomb to his doorstep? A man whose very idea of fun, in fact, is slipping a pair of goofy fake teeth…
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Film Review – John Wick: Chapter 2
In 1986, Chinese filmmaker John Woo dropped the action film A Better Tomorrow on the world and helped give birth to a movement of action films made in Hong Kong that lasted for the better part of the next decade. When these film began reaching…
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Film Review – The LEGO Batman Movie
Good News! Everything is still Awesome! Back in 2014, The LEGO Movie was a shot of pure joy. It was the best kind of surprise, a property that was likely to only be a 90 minute commercial for a toy line was in actuality a…
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Film Review – Fifty Shades Darker
What exactly is the appeal of Christian Grey? Sure, he has enormous wealth and the body of a well-trained athlete, but is that enough to look past his creepy tendencies? The guy is a control freak, who takes what he wants when he wants it…
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Film Review – Rings
Rings (2017) is a special kind of awful. It’s not scary, or thrilling, or suspenseful, or remotely interesting. It’s a complete drag of a movie. Maybe the premise of this story wasn’t made for this generation. The Ring (2002) – or better yet, the original…
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Film Review – The Space Between Us
“What’s your favorite thing about Earth?” As a traveler, I am always mesmerized by the new things I see, the different people I meet and the amazing tastes of food I eat in any given county I visit. Every visit to a new place is…
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Film Review – The Comedian
There has not been much promotion for The Comedian, at least through social media and movie news websites. That usually says something about its quality. However, The Comedian seems to have thwarted any bad juju Sony Pictures Classics has placed on it because this film…
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Film Review – Midsummer in Newtown
On December 14th, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, a twenty-year old lone gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary School. What followed was one of the worst tragedies in American history, the third deadliest mass shooting by a single person. The result was the death of twenty-six people,…
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