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Movie Review – Den of Thieves (2018)

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Den of Thieves, 2018. Directed by Christian Gudecast. Starring Gerard Butler, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Pablo Schreiber, Evan Jones, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Dawn Olivieri, Brian Van Holt, Jordan Bridges, Eric Braeden, Maurice Compte, Sonya Balmores, Cooper Andrews, Meadow Williams, Kaiwi Lyman, Jay Dobyns, Nick Loeb, Mo McRae, and Jermaine Rivers. SYNOPSIS: A gritty crime saga […]

Movie Review – 12 Strong (2018)

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12 Strong, 2018. Directed by Nicolai Fuglsig Starring Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña, Navid Negahban, Trevante Rhodes, Geoff Stults, Thad Luckinbill, Austin Stowell, Ben O’Toole, Austin Hebert, Kenneth Miller, Kenny Sheard, Jack Kesy, Elsa Pataki, William Fichtner, Rob Riggle, Laith Nakli, Fahim Fazli, and Numan Acar. SYNOPSIS:: 12 Strong tells the story of the […]

Movie Review – Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

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Maze Runner: The Death Cure, 2018. Directed by Wes Ball. Starring Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Aidan Gillen, Will Poulter, Rosa Salazar, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Giancarlo Esposito, Ki Hong Lee, Katherine McNamara, Walton Goggins, Nathalie Emmanuel, Barry Pepper, Jacob Lofland, Dexter Darden, Paul Lazenby, and Patricia Clarkson. SYNOPSIS: Young hero Thomas embarks on a mission to find a […]

Movie Review – Amant Double (2017)

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Amant Double, 2017. Directed by Francois Ozon. Starring Marine Vacth, Jeremie Renier, and Jacqueline Bisset. SYNOPSIS: Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity. Amant Double is destined to […]

Movie Review – Mom and Dad (2018)

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Mom and Dad, 2018. Written and Directed by Brian Taylor. Starring Nicolas Cage, Selma Blair, Anne Winters, Zackary Arthur, Robert T. Cunningham, Marilyn Dodds Frank, Olivia Crocicchia, Rachel Melvin, and Lance Henriksen. SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl and her little brother must survive a wild 24 hours during which a mass hysteria of unknown origins causes […]

Movie Review – Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool (2017)

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Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, 2017. Directed by Paul McGuigan. Starring Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Stephen Graham, Leanne Best, Frances Barber, Kenneth Cranham, and Vanessa Redgrave.   SYNOPSIS: A romance sparks between a young actor and a Hollywood leading lady. Apparently, getting Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool off the ground and […]

Movie Review – Paddington 2 (2017)

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Paddington 2, 2017 Directed by Paul King Starring Ben Whishaw, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville, Hugh Grant, Madeleine Harris, Samuel Joslin, Julie Walters, Imelda Staunton, Michael Gambon, Marie-France Alvarez, Jim Broadbent, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Miller, Jessica Hynes, Robbie Gee, Richard Ayoade, Sanjeev Bhaskar, and Peter Capaldi SYNOPSIS: Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family and […]

Movie Review – Blame (2017)

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Blame, 2017. Directed by Quinn Shephard. Starring Quinn Shephard, Chris Messina, Nadia Alexander, Sarah Mezzanotte, Tessa Albertson, Luke Slattery, Owen Campbell, Geneva Carr, and Tate Donovan. SYNOPSIS: A drama teacher’s taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain of events within their suburban high school that […]

Movie Review – The Insult (2017)

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The Insult, 2017. Directed by Ziad Doueiri. Starring Adel Karam, Kamel El Basha, Rita Hayek, Diamand Bou Abboud, Camille Salameh, Christine Choueiri, Talal Jurdi, and Christina Farah. SYNOPSIS: In today’s Beirut, an insult blown out of proportions finds Toni, a Lebanese Christian, and Yasser, a Palestinian refugee, in court. From secret wounds to traumatic revelations, […]

Movie Review – Insidious: The Last Key (2018)

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Insidious: The Last Key, 2018. Directed by Adam Robitel. Starring Lin Shaye, Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell, Josh Stewart, Caitlin Gerard, Kirk Acevedo, Javier Botet, Bruce Davison, Spencer Locke, Tessa Ferrer, Ava Kolker, Hana Hayes, Marcus Henderson, Rose Byrne, and Patrick Wilson. SYNOPSIS: Parapsychologist Dr. Elise Rainier faces her most fearsome and personal haunting yet – […]