Tag: Jessica Chastain
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‘It Chapter 2’ closes the book on Pennywise
“Wa-ha, wa-ha, wa-ha; that’s It, folks!” – Doug Walker Beyond all odds, It 2017 beat the remake curse to be well-received commercially and critically. Coming now to conclude the tale is It Chapter 2, but the air in this balloon has leaked out. Twenty-seven years have passed and Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) is back terrorizing Derry. Mike…
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The X-Men deserved a better ending than ‘Dark Phoenix’
“Once you know the extent of your power, then you can learn to control it” – James McAvoy as “Charles Xavier” in X-Men: Apocalypse Is this really the end for the X-Men? This is the seventh and supposedly last film featuring the main X-Men characters, although we know that New Mutants is due out next…
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‘Molly’s Game’ is interesting, but don’t go all in
Jessica Chastain in ‘Molly’s Game’ “There is no such thing as women’s intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.” – Actress Rachel Shelley “If you’ve been playing poker for half an hour and you still don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.” – Billionaire Warren Buffett For those of us old enough…
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‘Zero Dark Thirty’ is Kathryn Bigelow’s masterpiece
This incredible film raises the bar for military thrillers and future films in that genre will have to work extraordinarily hard to even come close to this masterpiece.
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Shia LaBeouf is woefully miscast in intense ‘Lawless’
A tale of life under prohibition in Franklin County, VA and the story of one family of bootleggers.