Tag: Brian Milinsky
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‘Me Before You’ is a real tear-jerker
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Making a beloved novel into a film is never an easy task. Even when the author adapts their own work for the screen, the limits of time and budget make it virtually impossible to translate…
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The documentary film ‘Art Bastard’ is actually quite legitimate
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“The Metropolitan (Museum) to me was more special than a church” – Robert Cenedella Writer/director Victor Kanefsky is known primarily for his work as an editor. Now he’s the man behind Art Bastard, an in-depth…
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X-Men: Apocalypse is good. It’s fun to watch. But it isn’t brilliant.
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Fast forward to the year 1983. Apocalypse awakens. The U.S. remembers the tenth anniversary of how “Mystique” (Jennifer Lawrence) stopped “Magneto” (Michael Fassbender) from killing the president. Magneto remains the world’s most wanted man but…
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‘Money Monster’ rates a strong buy
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Betting on ‘Money Monster’ is safer than investing in high-risk stocks picked by pundits
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Tail Slate suggests a few ‘war films’ for Memorial Day Viewing
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Don’t know about you but I can’t handle watching ‘The Green Berets’ on another Memorial Day weekend
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‘Kill Zone 2’ is a sequel in name only but packs the punch of the original
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In 2005 a throwback to the great Hong Kong action flicks came along from writer/director Wilson Yip titled SPL: Kill Zone. It was reminiscent of the kind of action flicks we used to see from…
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‘Mother’s Day’ is a wonderful holiday but a lousy movie
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Six years later we get Mother’s Day which has a great cast whose talents are obscured by a bad movie. The movie begins a few days before the titular holiday and takes place in Atlanta.
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‘The Boss’ is…not so boss but it is damn funny
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Melissa McCarthy is funny in anything and everything. And in her latest comedy The Boss she gets a lot of laughs.
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‘How to Be Single’ is a primer on the good and the bad of rom-coms
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There are moments in this movie that offer true insight into the reality of being single. There are also moments where this film could be labeled “How Not to Make a Rom-Com.” The problem being…
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‘Deadpool’ breaks the 4th wall in a wonderful way
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“I wanted to make room for antiheroes” – William Gibson, author of “Neuromancer” The titular character in Deadpool is super but not by birth. Anyone familiar with his origins in the Marvel comic book universe…