Film + TV
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Review: Jake Gyllenhaal is Brilliant in Southpaw, But Film Lacks Punch
When I saw the first trailer for Antoine Fuqua’s somber Southpaw, I assumed it was another boxing movie based on an inspirational true story a...
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Review: Smosh Comedy Team Makes Clever Film Debut, Smosh: The Movie
Even a decade after the website became a daily fixture in the lives of anyone who spends any time browsing the web, the term ‘YouTube...
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The Longest Ride Out on Blu-Ray/DVD
Nicholas Sparks fan rejoice, The Longest Ride is now available on Blu-Ray/DVD. Based on the bestselling novel, the romantic drama centers on the love affair...
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Jon Hamm and Allison Janney Have Fun Making Minions
The Minions made their return to Hollywood this month starring in their own new movie, Minions, taking us on a trip through history to preserve...
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Review: Entertaining Performances and Technology in Ant-Man
As we look into the Marvel universe, we come across the newest addition in our line of superheroes. However, this hero is not your ordinary...
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Review: Mr. Holmes’ Top-Notch Performances Don’t Make Up for a Meandering Plot
Given his iconically British gravitas, it’s a small wonder that the Ian McKellen hasn’t played London’s legendary detective Sherlock Holmes already over the course of...
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Interview: Paul Rudd Is Perfectly Suited to Play Ant-Man
As we dive into the Marvel universe, we come across a film that is destined to be bigger than the size of its titular character....
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Review: Tangerine Is an Exciting, Gritty and Unconventional Film
One could easily imagine the cinema purists of yesteryear rolling over in their graves upon hearing of both the subject matter and the film techniques...
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Review: Stuff Is An Expertly Performed Relationship Drama
One of the pleasures of independent cinema is offering talented but under-appreciated actors the chance to shine, while giving unknowns the opportunity to prove their...
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Review: Honest and Explicitly Modern – Beautiful Something
With the recent Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage throughout the United States, images of happy, well-adjusted gay couples have dominated the news. None of...
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Review: Despite Brilliant Performances Irrational Man Simply Doesn’t Work
After a two-decade-long slump, neurotic New York auteur Woody Allen seemed poised for a major critical comeback after his charming 2011 smash Midnight in Paris...
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Netflix’s “Narcos” Trailer Debuts
Today Netflix debuts the trailer of “Narcos”, which chronicles the gripping real-life stories of the infamous drug kingpins of the late 1980s and the corroborative...
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Review: The Stanford Prison Experiment May Be the Best Film of the Summer
In 1971, Stanford University psychologists conducted an experiment in which undergraduates adopted the roles of both jail prisoners and guards and found that the two...
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Three Major Questions to Consider While Watching Self/less
Death is an unavoidable part of life that thrusts a flood of emotions through our veins. Whether bearing witness to or experiencing the end of...
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Review: There Just Isn’t Anything Better than Minions this Summer
The spinoff to the wildly successful film Despicable Me titled Minions is now in theatres, and boy is it a delight. The film is directed...
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Review: Ryan Reynolds Thrills in Self/Less
In Tarsem Singh’s Self/Less Ben Kingsley plays Damian, a very rich man dying from a terminal disease, who undergoes a radical medical procedure called ‘shedding’...
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Review: Helen Mirren’s Refreshing Turn as Maria Altmann in Woman in Gold
Royalty has been very good to Dame Helen Mirren. For roughly the past decade, she has received every major acting award for playing both Queen...
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Behind the Curtain with the Cast of Magic Mike XXL
With the attention garnered by the 2012 comedy-drama Magic Mike, its sequel, Magic Mike XXL, hopes to become the movie of the summer as it...
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Furious 7 DVD to Release Sept. 15, 2015
If you missed out on catching the box office blockbuster, Furious 7, fear not, the action packed film blasts onto Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand...
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Review: Magic Mike XXL Delivers Tasteful Plot
Following the 2012 comedy-drama film, Magic Mike, the sequel Magic Mike XXL reunites the Kings of Tampa for one last performance. Though the first installment...
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Review: Back to the Future – In Concert 30th Anniversary Brings Back Memories to the Hollywood Bowl
This year we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Robert Zemeckis’ classic Back to the Future, and for the Hollywood Bowl’s summer season the Los Angeles...
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Magic Mike XXL Premieres at TCL Chinese Theatre, Opens to Public at TCL Chinese 6 Theatres July 1
Magic Mike XXL reunites Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez and Gabriel Iglesias, stars of the 2012 worldwide hit Magic Mike....
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Review: The Tribe Is Gritty and Truly Original
The summer movie season is one for superheroes, dinosaurs and apparently, as shown by the film The Tribe, Ukranian sign-language films presented without subtitles. For...
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Review: Daring Jokes, Celebrity Cameos in Ted 2
It is quite easy to predict how many indignant people will react to Ted 2, Seth MacFarlane’s sequel to his surprise hit about a foul-mouthed...
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Review: Mark Duplass Delivers a Frighteningly Good Performance in Creep
It seems wrong to call Creep a horror film, considering the genre is so closely aligned with bloodshed and gore that the real purpose of...
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Review: Rose McGowan Shows a Deft Hand at Directing in Dawn
Rose McGowan is best known for her roles in the late-‘90s teen classics Scream and Jawbreaker, but she makes her debut behind the camera in...
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Review: Infinitely Polar Bear Proves Infinitely Satisfying
Sweet but never sentimental, moving but never maudlin – director Maya Forbes’ masterful drama Infinitely Polar Bear is, perhaps, the first real awards contender of...
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