Category: Reviews
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‘Three Identical Strangers’ is one of a kind
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“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.” – Isaac Asimov Whenever one learns of an inspirational news story, that initial presentation is as far as they’ll ever hear about it. But for the…
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‘Teen Titans Go! To the Movies’ is kid-friendly superhero skewering
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“The superhero movie wave doesn’t really seem to be ending. In fact, it’s more like a superhero movie rising tide that has now formed a permanent lake on top of the film industry.” – Bob…
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‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ captures the magic of Fred Rogers
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“What we do for ourselves alone dies with us; what we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” – Albert Pike It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood now that Won’t You…
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‘Skyscraper’ reaches for new heights and falls short
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“I think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms and for whom economic restraints won’t apply” – Helmut Kahn, noted architect “A…
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Spend a few minutes enjoying what’s ‘Under the Tree’
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“Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass” – Benjamin Franklin “For what do we live, but to make sport of our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn” –…
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‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’ hits the bullseye
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The return of Alejandro from 2015’s ‘Sicario’ means the body count is going up
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‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ proves bigger isn’t always better
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom begins three years after the destruction of the revamped Jurassic World on Isla Nublar. The island is deserted except for a small team sent to retrieve a bone from the Indominus…
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Ocean’s 8 is slick, fashionable and sadly; predictable
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“Girls rule, boys drool” – schoolyard saying “There’s only one thing you love, Danny: that’s danger. Cliffhanging. You could never love a woman like you love danger” – Angie Dickinson as “Beatrice Ocean” in the…
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Check in to the ‘Hotel Artemis’ if only to watch its great cast
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“Oh Mary, I’m in the deep waters, and it’s way over my head. Everyone thought I was smarter than to be this dead” – Lyrics from the song Topanga Canyon on his solo album “The…
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Dive into the deep end of ‘Deadpool 2’
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“Now I’m about to do to you what Limp Bizkit did to music in the 90s” – Ryan Reynolds in the original Deadpool “Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts…