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Now Streaming: Godless

Josh Zyber — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 13:00:46 +0000

The explosion of quality television programming these days, especially on streaming, has made it nearly impossible to keep up with every new show of interest, no matter how buzzed or acclaimed. The holiday break gave me an opportunity to finally catch up with one, Netflix’s well-regarded Western, Godless. Produced by Steven Soderbergh, the limited series...

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‘The Divergent Series: Allegiant’ Review: Mediocrity Minus an Ending

Philip Brown — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 19:00:36 +0000

The second ‘Divergent’ movie made slightly more money than the first in the global market, so now we have a third chapter. The main knock against the series thus far is that it feels rather redundant to ‘The Hunger Games’, and whoo-boy that sure hasn’t changed! If fact, now that the whole “faction” concept has...

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‘Steve Jobs’ Review: Citizen Jobs

Philip Brown — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:00:22 +0000

A spiritual sequel to ‘The Social Network’, ‘Steve Jobs’ sees screenwriter Aaron Sorkin deliver another tale of a troubled genius who helped create a world of computer communications yet couldn’t figure out his own interpersonal communications. Sorkin being Sorkin, it’s also another talk-fest in which egomaniacs toss out well-crafted barbs. This time, however, a partnership...

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‘The Martian’ Review: Houston, No Problem We Got This

Philip Brown — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:00:53 +0000

Not many Ridley Scott movies can be described with words like “light” or “fluffy,” but ‘The Martian’ comfortably fits those terms in the best possible way. Undoubtedly, screenwriter Drew Goddard (‘Cabin in the Woods’) and the source novel by Andy Weir helped, but it’s still a little surreal to see the 77-year-old knighted director helming...

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‘The Newsroom’ Series Finale Recap: “Be a Father, It Lives Up to the Hype”

Shannon Nutt — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:00:21 +0000

In the series finale of ‘The Newsroom’, Will McAvoy gives up being a news anchor and joins a Country-Western band! Well, that’s exactly what it may have felt like to viewers who tuned in late to the episode. As series enders go, there isn’t a whole lot to complain about here. The episode serves very...

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‘The Newsroom’ 3.05 Recap: “It Looks Like Urine”

Shannon Nutt — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:00:58 +0000

The penultimate episode of ‘The Newsroom’ turns out to be a rather mixed bag, with some good and some not-so-good subplots, plus a shocker of an ending that I’m still not sure how I feel about. The episode opens with Will being escorted to his new prison cell by a guard, who warns him that...

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‘The Newsroom’ 3.04 Recap: “I Find Your Irish Stoicism Irritating”

Shannon Nutt — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 17:00:17 +0000

One of my favorite things about ‘The Newsroom’ was the idea that the show would take major real-life news stories and provide “hindsight” commentary (although not for the characters) on the events. However, we’ve gotten very little of that in Season 3, and get none in this latest episode. But you know what? I thought...

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‘The Newsroom’ 3.03 Recap: “I Still Don’t See Any Way We Can Survive”

Shannon Nutt — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:00:59 +0000

After opening the season with two strong episodes, it’s perhaps no surprise that this week’s entry of ‘The Newsroom’ is a little weaker. However, it’s still a good episode that continues the major storylines of this final season and puts the pieces in place for what will follow. This episode begins right where last week...

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‘The Newsroom’ 3.02 Recap: “You Walked Right Past the Waffles”

Shannon Nutt — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:00:47 +0000

Despite not having anything to do with a historical news story, nor even featuring any scenes of characters delivering an on-the-air report or commentary, the second episode of the final season of ‘The Newsroom’ is another solid one, once again reminding viewers of how entertaining this series can be when it’s firing on all cylinders....

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‘Dumb and Dumber To’ Review: Still Dumb, Still Fun

Philip Brown — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 20:00:00 +0000

‘Dumb and Dumber To’ is pretty much guaranteed to get bad reviews. So did the first one, even though it’s now considered a comedy classic. Why? Well, because it’s stupid, nonsensical, lowest common denominator, episodic, immature and meaningless. You can’t argue with those criticisms. That’s exactly what the sequel is supposed to be and it’s...

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‘The Newsroom’ 3.01 Recap: “An Unwelcome Opportunity to Be Sure”

Shannon Nutt — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:00:00 +0000

Followers of my past recaps of ‘The Newsroom’ and/or my reviews of the Blu-rays already know my position on this HBO series. I was a huge fan of the first season, but I thought Season 2 almost completely took away everything I loved about the show. Many out there feel the opposite, and thought the...

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The Trailer Park: Long-Awaited Sequels, The Sequel

M. Enois Duarte — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 19:00:21 +0000

Does Hollywood know how to make anything other than sequels anymore? This week’s collection of trailers is mostly for new installments in franchises that nobody actually expected to be continued. ‘The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water’ Ten years is a long time to follow-up on the moderately successful animated movie about a sponge that...

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