Tag: review
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REVIEW: Trolls Band Together (2023)
While “hate listening” — it’s a thing — to an old BroZone album, Branch (voiced by Justin Timberlake) finds himself reminiscing about his long lost brothers. Poppy (Anna Kendrick) bursts in and tells him she used to love BroZone, having no idea that her boyfriend is a former member. Fast forward to Bridget and King…
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REVIEW: The Hunger Games – The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
“If you love the originals, this will only stoke your Hunger Games fire. But if you’ve never seen the originals, you can still take it in as a stand-alone film and really enjoy yourself.”
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REVIEW: The Marsh King’s Daughter (2023)
Every once in a while a film comes along and a performance is so good that you can’t imagine anyone else in the role. Daisy Ridley fits that bill here.
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REVIEW: Murder Rap (2015)
Murder Rap: Inside the Biggie and Tupac Murders examines the infamous unsolved killings of hip hop legend Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace on March 9, 1997 in Los Angeles and actor, activist and artist Tupac Shakur just six months earlier on September 7, 1996 in Las Vegas. Both men were at the height of the rap game and had waged a war on…
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REVIEW: Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive (2023)
Gloria Gaynor won a Grammy award (and worldwide notoriety) for her 1978 hit “I Will Survive.” Little did the world know what she’d gone through — and would go through — in order to make that an anthem for herself. The documentary sheds light on the life experiences of Gaynor from childhood to winning her…
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REVIEW: Stop Making Sense (1984)
In December of 1983, Talking Heads had a three-night run at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles, California. Their additional bandmates on that run? A film crew and Director Jonthan Demme. Frontman David Byrne is joined on stage by another member of the band after each song until, six songs in, the full ensemble of…
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REVIEW: The Equalizer (2014)
Director Antoine Fuqua takes what really should be a pretty standard action movie and makes it one of the best of the decade…
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REVIEW: Valkyrie (2008)
79 years ago today, July 20, 1944, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler during a military strategy meeting at the Wolf’s Lair in East Prussia. Stauffenberg and his group of accomplices wanted a change at the head of state to show the world that not all Germans were sympathetic to Nazi ideals. ***…
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REVIEW: Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part 1 (2023)
Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise) and his team of Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) are tasked with finding and securing two halves of a key. The key supposedly controls an A.I. known as “The Entity” and uses data to learn and predict human outcomes. Every government…
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REVIEW: Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
IMF Agent Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise) is on the run from his own government after he receives a typical “Your mission, should you choose to accept it…” message but from an organization called The Syndicate. CIA Director Alan Hunley (Alec Baldwin) aims to shut down the IMF, cutting off Hunt, William Brandt (Jeremy…
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