Tag: Review
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Logan Lucky
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…
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Patti Cake$
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…
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The Hitman’s Bodyguard, Ingrid Goes West
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…
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Wind River, Menashe
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.
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The Dark Tower, An Inconvenient Sequel
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…
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Atomic Blonde
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!
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Dunkirk, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
It was truly an event weekend at the box office, with the Christopher Nolan helmed WWII epic “Dunkirk” and the Luc Besson visual smorgasbord “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets”. Both films are definitely meant to be experienced in theaters. While I felt that it was unlike something we’ve seen before from WWII…
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War for the Planet of the Apes, The Big Sick
It’s finally a good week at the movies, with very impressive VFX bonanza (banana-za?) “War for the Planet of the Apes” and the incredibly heartfelt and heartwarming “The Big Sick.” “War for the Planet of the Apes” is the third in the Apes reboot from Fox, and it’s one of the few series that has…
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Spider-Man: Homecoming
What happens when two major movie studios finally decide to team up? We get our 6th Spider-Man film in 15 years! Tom Holland dons the Spidey-Suit for his first solo foray as the web-slinger, with a little help from Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man. People are calling this the best film in the MCU…
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Baby Driver
Edgar Wright is back in action with “Baby Driver” starring Ansel Elgort, Jon Hamm, Eiza Gonzalez, Lily James, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey and probably the best soundtrack of the summer. From an idea that’s been rattling around in Edgar Wright’s brain for 20 odd years (so almost older than the star) comes an action packed…