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Reviews By Allison Hazlett-Rose

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Alita: Battle Angel

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 02/11/2019 1:10 PM EDT
When James Cameron (Avatar; Titanic) read Yukito Kishiro's Manga, Gunnm, twenty years ago he knew he wanted to make it into a major motion picture with himself directing. However, his other projects derailed his desire and, after having penned the screenplay, Cameron handed over the work to protégé, Robert Rodriguez (Sin Cit... Read More

Widows

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 02/11/2019 10:47 AM EDT
What would you do if your husband, whose livelihood is crime, suddenly dies in a job gone bad? What if that same husband leaves you the plans for his next heist? What if mob-like boss shows up demanding the two million dollars your husband stole from him the night he died? Welcome to Veronica's (Viola Davis; Fences) world. In the ... Read More

Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 02/07/2019 10:29 PM EDT
In 2005 the International Olympic Committee officially terminated Baseball as an Olympic sport. In response, the World Baseball Classic was created with the inaugural tournament played the following year in 2006. Made up of 16 teams from around the globe it featured the best baseball players, many of whom play professionally. The Classi... Read More

The Old Man & the Gun

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 02/05/2019 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) 02/04/2019 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

They Shall Not Grow Old

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 02/01/2019 9:15 AM EDT
In June 1914, a young Bosnian named Gavrilo Princip, tired of the Austro- Hungarian rule in Bosnia, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie in Sarajevo. This act led to the July Crisis and by August 1914 France, Britain, and Russia were at war with Austria-Hungry, Germany, and Italy. This conflict became known as Worl... Read More

The Hate U Give

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 01/22/2019 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

Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 01/21/2019 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

Glass

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 01/16/2019 1:00 PM EDT
M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) is known for his dramatic thrillers that offer a twist. He usually keeps the audience guessing as to what is really going on and reveals the truth at the end, often to the surprise of the viewers. In 2000 he presented fans with a different type of "superhero" story in Unbreakable starring S... Read More

Once Upon a Deadpool

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 01/15/2019 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