Tag: review
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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: 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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REVIEW: Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)

IMF Agent Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise) is in a Russian prison for killing six men who killed his wife (Michelle Monaghan). After an IMF team loses one of their own in a nuclear launch code theft, they’re ordered to break Hunt out so he can aid in the mission. The new team of…
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REVIEW: Mission Impossible III (2006)

Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise) has spent the past few years training new IMF agents but is now retired. As he’s about to settle down and marry Julia Meade (Michelle Monaghan), he’s contacted by IMF Assistant Director and old friend John Musgrave (Billy Crudup) and pulled back in. One of Hunt’s trainees, Lindsey Farris…

