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The Old Man & the Gun

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 2/5/2019 8:46 PM EDT
Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford; Captain America: The Winter Soldier) was a career criminal. He broke out of prison successfully eighteen times in his lifetime, robbed probably hundreds of banks and stole an estimated four million plus dollars. He was described as a gentleman who was always nicely dressed and well put together as he held... Read More

Poetic Justice

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 2/4/2019 9:03 PM EDT
At the ripe old age of twenty-three, John Singleton wrote and directed his first feature film – Boyz n the Hood. The movie offered an honest look at the lives of young black men living in an impoverished neighborhood in California and garnered Singleton two Oscar nominations. Two years later his second film, Poetic Justice, was re... Read More

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

(Sean McCloskey) 1/28/2019 4:13 PM EDT
The Nutcracker story is synonymous with the Christmas holiday season. The famous ballet is known the world over and has been enchanting audiences for well over a hundred years. Disney took this classic story and released The Nutcracker and the Four Realms back in November to some pretty critical reviews. Now, the film will be available on 4K UHD to... Read More

The Hate U Give

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 1/22/2019 10:51 AM EDT
Racial Profiling is defined as the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense and it is a problem that plagues cities across this country. Recently a number of unarmed young, black men have been killed by police officers who saw them as a threat simply based on the color of their skin. When... Read More

Johnny English Strikes Again

(Maureen Buccellato) 1/21/2019 10:33 PM EDT
Since the 1980s, Rowan Atkinson has been a fixture in film and on television. From his breakthrough role in The Black Adder to the incomparable Mr. Bean, Atkinson has been an international entertainer for almost 40 years. In 2003, he starred as the lead in Johnny English, a spoof on the James Bond series. The film was followed by Johnny English Reb... Read More

Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 1/21/2019 5:14 PM EDT
Known as the Stephen King of children's literature, R.L. Stine created a series of scary stories from 1992 through 1997 entitled Goosebumps. The books have a number of monsters but a ventriloquist's dummy named Slappy is prevalent in many of them. In 2015 Slappy was brought to life when Goosebumps the movie came to theaters. With ... Read More

Waterworld

(Leonard Buccellato) 1/21/2019 12:04 PM EDT
A long time ago, in a galaxy not too far away, Universal Pictures released the most bloated, and expensive movie of all time (prior to Titanic).At the time Waterworld was released, it seemed that it could do nothing right in the eyes of critics and movie-goers, alike. I remember disliking it, immediately, although that was due more to my dislike fo... Read More

Once Upon a Deadpool

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 1/15/2019 10:49 AM EDT
When Deadpool made its way to theaters on 2016 it did so with a hard R rating much to the studio's and parents' chagrin. It was only natural when the sequel arrived that it too would have that same R rating and be inappropriate for children. In fact, part of what audiences like so much about the films and the character is his crass deme... Read More

Cliffhanger

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 1/14/2019 11:18 AM EDT
Sylvester Stallone (Rocky) had a string of hit action movies in the 1970s and 1980s but those hits waned by the latter part of 1980s and he didn't make movies for a few years. Then in 1993, he starred in another action film called Cliffhanger. Based in the mountains of the Northwestern United States and filmed in the Italian Alps, the Renny H... Read More

Bad Times at the El Royale

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 1/9/2019 11:17 AM EDT
It's been a while since we've been treated to a highly stylized film in the vain of film noir. During the 1990's we saw quite a bit of that genre but we seemed to have lost sight of it with all the action/superhero films of this millennia. Bad Times At the El Royale reminds us of why we loved these types of movies and what a beautifully... Read More