Tag: review
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Review: ‘Chris Claremont’s X-Men’ Spotlights The Man Behind Marvel’s Mutants
Right now we are in the zenith of the Superhero movie era, with Marvel in the lead at the top of the mountain. With much of the Marvel Superheroes, a lot of the credit is given to Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and deservingly so as those two along with Steve Ditko and a few…
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Review: ‘The Neighbor’ Starring William Fichtner And Jessica McNamee
The new film The Neighbor stars William Fichtner (the bad guy in everything) as a lonely older man going through a midlife crisis in the form of obsessing over his attractive young neighbor. It’s not exactly a thriller, and not exactly a drama; more than anything this movie is perfectly awkward. It revels in the…
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Review: ‘The Cage Fighter’, Joe Carman Fights Back When Life Stacks The Deck
There are times when real life provides enough suspense, drama, and action that it can seem like fiction. Throughout The Cage Fighter, I kept having to remind myself that the film was indeed a documentary, and that we were following Joe Carman’s real-life trials and tribulations. Director Jeff Unay presents Joe’s life masterfully, in a…
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Review: ‘Bilal: A New Breed Of Hero” Starring Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje And Ian McShane
With all the talk of diversity in front of and behind the camera, and with seeing some change happen in the award space, it’s still pretty tough to find much change in the land of Feature Animation. . While this past year we’ve had Coco from Pixar with its Mexican/Latin focused story and characters the most…
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Review: ‘Jawbone’ Showcases A Man’s Struggles In And Out Of The Ring
Jawbone tells the story of Jimmy McCabe (Johnny Harris) – a former celebrated boxer whose life has spiraled out of control. A year after Jimmy’s mom has passed away, he finds himself facing eviction and suffering from a serious drinking problem. Jimmy is down on his luck, is desperate for money, has been arrested due…
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Review: ‘Den Of Thieves’ Starring Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber, Curtis Jackson, And O’Shea Jackson Jr.
At its core, Den of Thieves is a gritty, dark, modern day cops and robbers film. Centered in Los Angeles – a hot bed for bank robbers with a bank being robbed every 48 minutes – we get a chance to follow the stories of two groups of people on opposite sides of the law.…
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Review: “Humor Me”, A Familiar But Endearing Father-Son Comedy
Sam Hoffman’s feature debut Humor Me is a gently funny and endearing comedy featuring Jemaine Clement as Nate, the struggling playwright who is forced to move into his father’s (Bob, played by Elliott Gould) retirement community after his wife and producer both leave him when he is unable to finish writing his second play. If the…
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Review: ‘Insidious: The Last Key’ Starring Lin Shaye
The wide-release, low-budget, horror scene of the last decade has been driven by a single studio…Blumhouse. Jason Blum and his company has done more for horror then any other single studio that I can think of, at least any other studio dealing exclusively in horror…certainly Dimension is up there as well. Under that Blumhouse banner…
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Review: ‘Love Beats Rhymes’ Starring Azealia Banks And Jill Scott, Directed By The RZA
I wonder why Hollywood loves stories about urban black or black adjacent youth (looking at you Step Up) who are very talented in, what used to be, the outsider culture of Hip Hop, then they create conflict with some facet of classic academia and have them ascend to meet their potential? And now you’re like…
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Review: ‘Small Town Crime’ Starring John Hawkes, Octavia Spencer, & Anthony Anderson
When you get to the bare bones of it, Small Town Crime is a twisted redemption story. Mike Kendall (John Hawkes) is a former cop whose alcoholism was the catalyst for him being removed from the force. Mike was involved in a traffic stop gone horribly wrong that left multiple people shot and dead, including…