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Tolkien Review: An Expected Bio

Jason Gorber — Fri, 10 May 2019 12:00:55 +0000

From his birth in Southern Africa, the loss of his mother, his academic rise, his service during the Great War, and his subsequent fame, the story of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s life is nearly as adventurous as the characters he invented. The bio-pic Tolkien merges all these aspects to show how they echo with the...

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‘Murder on the Orient Express’ (2017) Review: Murder Most Middlebrow

Philip Brown — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 20:00:41 +0000

In the grand scheme of movies that needed to exist in 2017, ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ ranks somewhere near the bottom of the list. There have been a variety of adaptations of this Agatha Christie whodunnit over the years and Kenneth Branagh’s new version doesn’t add much beyond modern movie spectacle. While it’s a...

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‘Cinderella’ Review: Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Reboot

Philip Brown — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:00:29 +0000

If you told me 10-15 years ago that there would be a live action ‘Cinderella’ movie directed by Kenneth Branagh and written by half the directors of ‘American Pie’, I would have told you to “Shut yo mouth” like one of the backup singers in ‘Shaft’. Yet here we are many moons later, and not...

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