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  • Blade Runner 2049, The Mountain Between Us

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    This week birngs the much awaited “Blade Runner 2049” and the skippable “The Mountain Between Us”. ​Apologies for the audio quality, this was recorded on the road (but I was too excited not to talk about Blade Runner – in a spoiler free way). “Blade Runner 2049” had a lot to live up to, but…

  • American Made, Battle of the Sexes, Victoria & Abdul

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    It’s a a biopic bonanza with the triple feature of “American Made” starring Tom Cruise, the Billie Jean King story – “Battle of the Sexes” starring Emma Stone and Steve Carell, and finally the Queen Victoria vehicle, “Victoria & Abdul” starring Judi Dench and Ali Fazal.

  • Detroit

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    She leads a cast of John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell, Hannah Murray, Jack Reynor, John Krasinski, Anthony Mackie and more in the retelling of the Algiers Motel incident in Detroit in 1967. The content of the story probably carries it more than the direction, but the story itself is worth…

  • Home Again, Beach Rats

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    This week brings “Home Again” or as I call it: “Rich White Lady Problems” and “Beach Rats”. “Home Again” is a self indulgent waste of screen time, it’s the product of Hallie Meyers-Shyer, who comes from the first family of rom-coms (her mother/the film’s producer is Nancy Meyers, and her father is Charles Shyer). This…

  • Logan Lucky

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    Logan Lucky – the good movie that apparently no one is seeing. Steven Soderbergh teams up with Channing Tatum again, and they’re joined by Adam Driver, Daniel Craig, Riley Keough, and a bevy of others for this Southern heist film. Soderbergh harkens back to his Ocean’s Eleven days with this crime caper taking place at…

  • Patti Cake$

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    This week brings Patti Cake$, the story of Patricia Dombrowski aka Killa P aka Patti Cake$. After a great deal of buzz at Sundance this film ended up being very much worth checking out. Patti is resilient, charming, and can spit rhymes. The dynamic between the 3 generations of Dombrowski women is worth the ticket…

  • The Hitman’s Bodyguard, Ingrid Goes West

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    ​As summer winds down we have “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” starring Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson, as well as the social media centric “Ingrid Goes West” with Aubrey Plaza and Elizabeth Olsen. I was disappointed by “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” – with a cast like Reynolds, Jackson, Salma Hayek, and Gary Oldman, you’d think they’d be…

  • Wind River, Menashe

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    ​This week brings us two very different looks at two very different cultures. “Wind River” is a crime thriller that takes place on the Wind River Indian Reservation, and stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen. “Menashe” is a heartwarming story (entirely in Yiddish) of an Orthodox Hasidic Jewish father and son in Brooklyn.

  • The Dark Tower, An Inconvenient Sequel

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    ​The darkest thing about the onscreen adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” is how much it’s going to disappoint fans of the book. If you want a dose of real world darkness (and a glimmer of hope) you can check out Al Gore’s return to the silver screen in “An Inconvenient Sequel” Not even…

  • Atomic Blonde

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    ​Charlize Theron kicks ass and takes names in “Atomic Blonde.” I want people to stop comparing it to James Bond because it’s better than the last however many!