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Ralph Breaks the Internet Review: Wreck’s in Effect

Jason Gorber — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 13:00:41 +0000

Ralph Breaks the Internet provides a welcome return to the world of Wreck-It Ralph, the 2012 film that found an arcade villain on a hero’s journey for acceptance and redemption. The vintage world of quarter-fed machines takes on a different scope when the World Wide Web comes into play. In many ways, Wreck-It Ralph helped...

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‘I’m Dying Up Here’ Pilot Recap: “It’s All About the Climb”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 12:00:23 +0000

For a TV show about comedians that’s executive produced by Jim Carrey, Showtime’s new series ‘I’m Dying Up Here’ takes a surprisingly dramatic bent, leaving the laughs only for the scenes of performers on stage. Does this look back at the L.A. stand-up scene of the 1970s kill, or does it bomb? At the moment,...

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‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Pilot Recap: “There’s Only Room for One Goddess at a Time”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 13:00:28 +0000

I guess ‘American Feud Story’ wouldn’t have sounded right as a title. Producer Ryan Murphy’s latest anthology drama combines a little bit of horror with a little true crime to detail some of history’s most scandalous rivalries. The first season of ‘Feud’ centers on the notorious grudge match between Hollywood icons Joan Crawford and Bette...

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‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ Review: Fey’s Finest

Philip Brown — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:00:07 +0000

Though Tina Fey long ago found herself a spot at the table for the comedic elite on television, her film career has been spotty at best. To be clear, she’s always been good in her big screen outings, but they all tend to be blandly mainstream despite her wit. Thankfully, ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ (reduce the...

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‘Secret in Their Eyes’ Review: These Eyes Are Glazed Over

Philip Brown — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:00:37 +0000

‘Secret in Their Eyes’ is the latest in the seemingly endless stream of remakes of foreign films that fail primarily due to redundancy. Like ‘Oldboy‘ or ‘Let Me In‘ before it, Billy Ray’s new movie is not without its charms. However, it never provides any sense of how or why this version of the story...

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‘Strange Magic’ Review: Lucas’ Loopy Letdown

Philip Brown — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:00:55 +0000

Remember when George Lucas said that he was going to move onto making “small, personal films” after the ‘Star Wars’ trilogy, and then made ‘Howard the Duck’? Or how about when he said the same thing after the prequel trilogy and then made ‘Red Tails’? Well, he said the exact same thing one more time...

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Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Character Actors

Josh Zyber — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:00:56 +0000

Our readers (that’d be you) responded pretty favorably to last week’s Roundtable topic on the subject of bad actors who should be forcibly retired from the acting profession. Now, let’s flip that around and try to focus on the positive. For this week’s topic, we’re calling out some of our favorite actors – but not...

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Now Playing: ‘Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ Isn’t Exactly Magical

Drew Taylor — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:00:33 +0000

When I went to a press screening of the latest Jerry Bruckheimer/Walt Disney Pictures visual effects extravaganza ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,’ I sat a few seats down from someone who introduced himself as having worked on the locations for the movie. He said that he spent eight months on the production, which shot all around New...

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