Author: Brian Milinsky
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‘Lion’ roars loudly and with feeling
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‘Lion’ is the true story of Saroo Brierly, born in India who winds up 1,500 kilometers away from his family with no way to get back to them. Adopted while still a young child by…
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Carrie Fisher has died at UCLA Medical Center
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Following a massive heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles, Carrie Fisher died on Tuesday morning in Los Angeles. The cause of her passing was not immediately released. She was born into…
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Ben Affleck’s ‘Live by Night’ dies long before the break of dawn
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“You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.” – Robert De Niro as Al Capone in The Untouchables Live by Night is based on…
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A look at Tail Slate’s favorite gangster movies
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America’s love affair with movies about gangsters (mobsters if you prefer) dates back to the beginning of the 20th Century. Very popular in the 1930s, they practically disappeared once the Production Code (predecessor to the…
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There is an amazing story inside those ‘Hidden Figures’
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“You are no better than anyone else, and no one is better than you.” – Katherine G. Johnson “I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number…
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‘Assassin’s Creed’ should have been left on the video game console
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“No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.” – Roger Ebert If we apply Roger Ebert’s dictum to Assassin’s Creed, based very loosely on the video game of the same…
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The best and worst of video game-based movies
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TailSlate looks at the video game turned movie genre
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Director Denzel Washington hits ‘Fences’ out of the ballpark
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One could simply listen to a recitation of the amazing words of August Wilson and be far more entertained than by most dramatic films of this era. To have actors of the caliber of this…
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‘Patriots Day’ tells the story of the heroes and villains of the Boston Marathon Bombing
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“We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens.” – President Barrack Obama at a press conference after the Boston Bombing…
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‘Passengers’ aimed for first-class but landed in coach
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‘Passengers’ is set in a future where Earth is very crowded and a very large corporation is making money hand over fist by sending people to colony planets; where they can start new lives.