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Review: Shazam!

April 3, 2019 0 Comments

With Marvel’s highly-anticipated Avengers: Endgame still a few weeks out, DC Comics’ Shazam! swoops in like a tasty appetizer - just enough to satisfy, without spoiling your appetite for the…

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Quickie Review: Dumbo

March 27, 2019 0 Comments

There’s a reason we don’t review too many kids’ movies, even if we happen to see them: they aren’t really for us. A few weeks ago, I saw the animated…

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Review: The Wedding Guest

March 12, 2019 0 Comments

You might expect from the title that this is another of director Michael Winterbottom's light comedies as in The Trip series, and that it has something to do with nuptials,…

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Review: Captain Marvel

March 7, 2019 0 Comments

I'll tread carefully here, though I don't think there are many actual spoilers to worry about. That’s because Captain Marvel is an origin story meant to set the stage for…

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Review: Styx

February 26, 2019 0 Comments

Styx is the story of intrepid German ER doctor Rike who's on a solo sea voyage when she's suddenly sucked into a life or death situation. What begins as a…

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Quickie Review: How to Train Your Dragon – The Hidden World

February 22, 2019 0 Comments

I must confess: I did not see the first How to Train Your Dragon movie in 2010. And I found the 2014 sequel to be rather dark. Regardless, both films…

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Review: Oscar Nominated Short Films 2019

February 6, 2019 0 Comments

I always look forward to watching the shorts. (Short being 40 minutes or less, so some of them aren't all that short.) This year's crop had clear winners and losers…

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Review: Cold Pursuit

February 4, 2019 0 Comments

Cold Pursuit triggered a chilling case of deja vu. Not just because it’s another Liam Neeson revenge thriller. But because I’d seen the exact same movie before, in 2014 –…

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Quickie Review: In Like Flynn

January 29, 2019 0 Comments

In Like Flynn is all about swashbuckling Errol Flynn in the days before he became a star, when he was traveling around the South Seas looking for adventure and getting…

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Mainstream Chick’s Top Picks of 2018

January 1, 2019 0 Comments

It’s insanely difficult to do a “Top 10 Movies of 2018” list when you’ve seen about 200 movies in 365 days – everything from blockbusters, to arthouse films, to documentaries,…

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Quickie Reviews: Ben Is Back; Bumblebee; Vice

December 27, 2018 0 Comments

I know - these are three very different films. But I'm playing catch-up with my reviews! So I'll start with my favorite of the three (though Bumblebee comes in a…

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Review: Destroyer

December 27, 2018 0 Comments

When beautiful actresses make themselves ugly for a role, it's always hard to see them that way. In Destroyer, Nicole Kidman plays an LA detective whose life took a dark…

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Review: Aquaman

December 21, 2018 0 Comments

Aquaman is a bit of a hot mess, but it’s not a total washout. It’s one of those ‘must-see regardless’ movies for fans and followers of the DC comic universe,…

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Review: Mary Poppins Returns

December 18, 2018 0 Comments

Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place, The Girl on the Train) is practically perfect in every way as the practically-perfect nanny Mary Poppins in the long-awaited sequel, Mary Poppins Returns. The…

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Quickie Review: Once Upon A Deadpool

December 11, 2018 0 Comments

There are multiple jokes in Once Upon A Deadpool about lazy writing. So I’m going to rip a page out of Deadpool’s book and compose a review befitting this feeble…