Keep it civil
“Captain America: Civil War” PG-13 147 minutes Starring: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Sebastian Stan Your answer to which Marvel film is the best will likely depend [...]
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Posted May 11, 2016in Film Review
Posted May 04, 2016in Film Review
Gettin’ the kitten
I have never been the world’s biggest Key and Peele fan. The comedy duo of Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key are wildly popular on Comedy Central and in [...]
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Posted April 27, 2016in Film Review
America the beautiful
“Elvis & Nixon” Rated R 86 minutes Starring: Kevin Spacey, Michael Shannon, Colin Hanks In 1971, President Richard Nixon made the decision that would ultimately be his undoing and [...]
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Posted April 20, 2016in Film Review
Bear necessities
“The Jungle Book” Rated PG 105 minutes Starring: Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley There are so many remakes and reboots of previously successful films and franchises coming [...]
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Posted April 13, 2016in Film Review
What the hell just happened?
“Hardcore Henry” is being touted as the first film shot entirely from the first-person point of view. Writer and director Ilya Naishuller has repeatedly said in interviews that it [...]
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Posted April 06, 2016in Film Review
Oh, Lord
It’s not a historical revelation to say that Christians have had a good run. Sure, things were hairy for Christ’s followers back when the date was still in triple [...]
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Posted April 01, 2016in Film Review
Snyder’s best yet
The biggest concern heard over and over again when director Zac Snyder was handed the keys to the DC Comics kingdom was that he’s a style-over-substance hack with a toddler’s [...]
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Posted March 23, 2016in Film Review, Homepage Cover Story
No allegiance
“Allegiant” is supposed to be the penultimate film in the grand climax of the “Divergent” series based on the young adult novels by the same name. Instead, all it manages [...]
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Posted March 16, 2016in Film Review
Don’t call it a comeback
One thing that should be established from the outset is that “10 Cloverfield Lane” is not a sequel to 2008’s “Cloverfield.” Though both were produced by J.J. Abrams and share [...]
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Posted March 09, 2016in Film Review
The Taliban shuffle
“Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” is a film based on Kim Barker’s bitingly funny memoir, “The Taliban Shuffle,” depicting her time as the Chicago Tribune’s South Asian bureau chief, a position she [...]
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