Tag: film
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Netflix’s EXTERRITORIAL blends emotion and action

One of the best compliments you can receive as an actor is “Now I can’t wait to see them in whatever’s next.” And that’s where we’re at with Goursaud.
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HAVOC is a fun, poor man’s JOHN WICK

While there are interesting ways to kill people, seemingly non-stop action and some pretty solid performances, this would’ve been largely forgotten if it were released into theaters.
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THE SURFER prompts more questions than answers

An American business man (played by Nicolas Cage) takes his son to an Australian beach he grew up surfing at before his grandfather passed away and sold his beachfront home. After decades of sacrifice, he’s finally saved up enough money to buy that same house so he can enjoy the sunrise, sunset and surf spot…
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Coogler, cast deliver in SINNERS

Set in the 1920’s South, twin brothers Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B. Jordan) escaped the slave trade and made a name for themselves during Al Capone’s reign in Chicago. They’ve taken what they’ve learned — and earned — and come back home to Clarksdale, Mississippi, in order to buy a building and…
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LOVE HURTS doesn’t know what it wants to be

There’s a serious crisis of identity with LOVE HURTS and the performances can’t save it.
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Wahlberg makes FLIGHT RISK watchable

A desk agent with the US Marshal Service, Deputy Madelyn Harris (played by Michelle Dockery), is back in the field for the first time in years escorting a key witness in a high profile case. Once she secures Winston (Topher Grace), the informant who’s trying to hide in the Fairbanks area of Alaska, they board…
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DEN OF THIEVES 2 unnecessarily complicated

Los Angeles Sheriff Nick O’Brien (played by Gerard Butler) sees a news report of a diamond heist at the Antwerp airport in Belgium and notices some similarities to unsolved cases in Southern California. After doing some digging, he realizes the burglary was, in fact, led by Donnie Wilson (O’Shea Jackson Jr.), the very man he’s…
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2024 MCFCA nominations announced

The Music City Film Critics’ Association has announced its list of nominations representing the best of film in 2024. MCFCA members voted for up to three films (except Best Picture) in each category that, among other criteria, were screened in a theater between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024. Members’ ballots were due at…
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Original BAD BOYS still the benchmark

The only thing tha makes Bad Boys memorable is the chemistry between Smith and Lawrence.

