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Crazy Rich Asians Review: Not So Crazy After All

Deirdre Crimmins — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 16:00:31 +0000

Romantic comedies often get a bum rap, and rightly so. Too often, they’re fleshed out with one-dimensional characters and plots that would simply unravel if the two leads characters had kindergarten-level communication skills. But it doesn’t have to be like this. It’s possible to be sweet and funny, and have well-developed characters in a believable...

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‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Pilot Recap: “Starfleet Doesn’t Fire First”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 15:00:28 +0000

Like a drug pusher offering customers a first taste for free, CBS premiered its new ‘Star Trek’ series on regular broadcast this week, but you’ll need to pay a subscription fee for the CBS All Access streaming platform to see more. Is the show worth getting hooked on? ‘Star Trek’ has been absent from television...

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‘Morgan’ Review: Ex MachiNOT

Philip Brown — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 15:00:14 +0000

The biggest problem with ‘Morgan’ is that it’s not ‘Ex Machina’, yet comes out so soon after Alex Garland’s brilliant robo-Frankenstein tale that it’s almost impossible not to draw comparisons. It’s still quite well made for a debut feature by a new director. (Granted, it helps when your dad is Ridley Scott and can get...

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‘Mechanic: Resurrection’ Review: Magnificently Stupid Statham Camp

Philip Brown — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 15:00:48 +0000

It’s impossible to call ‘Mechanic: Resurrection’ a “good” movie with a straight face. No, that’s not right at all. It’s far too stupid for that, downright ludicrous even. And yet… I can’t pretend that the movie isn’t quite fun in its idiocy. The entire film makes little sense. The dialogue is horrendous. The plot twists...

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Weekend Roundtable: Ass-Kicking Action Heroines

Josh Zyber — Fri, 15 May 2015 19:00:29 +0000

As audiences line up to see ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ this weekend, they may be surprised to find a bald, robo-armed Charlize Theron on equal footing with the title hero of the film. For this week’s Roundtable, we wanted to celebrate some of cinema’s other badass action heroines who prove that girls can kick just...

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Weekend Movies: The Three Genre Flicks

Luke Hickman — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:00:38 +0000

Despite three new movies hitting the big screen this weekend, I don’t know if any of them can dethrone ‘The Hunger Games’. I guess we’ll see. The widest opener of this weekend is the Farrelly brothers’ ‘The Three Stooges‘, the movie that studios have been trying to make for ages now. This rendition brings the...

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TIFF Journal: ‘The Lady’

Josh Zyber — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:00:47 +0000

French action maestro Luc Besson teams up with Asian action superstar Michelle Yeoh for a new movie? That sounds like an inspired pairing. Wait, the movie is a formulaic historical bio-pic without any action at all? Well, that’s a whole lot less interesting already. Even the title ‘The Lady’ is pretty generic and nondescript. Sadly,...

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The Netflix Stream: Week of September 11th, 2011

Dick Ward — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:00:03 +0000

This is not a bad week for Netflix. There’s plenty to love that’s new to Instant Watch. While there are also plenty of flicks heading off, most of those are either things that I’ve never heard of or movies that are just plain bad. Leaving the Stream ‘Stella: Live in Boston’ (9/15): If you’ve never...

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