“If you can’t spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, you ARE the sucker.” – Mike McDermott, Rounders Words to live by. I viewed Rounders for the very first time about five years…
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Netflix added a new speculative fiction film to their prolific collection of original productions this past Friday. Starring Forest Whitaker, Theo James, and Kat Graham, How It Ends follows two men, Will (James) and Tom (Whitaker), as…
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15 years later sounds less poetic than 28 Days Later, but alas, here we are. The post-apocalyptic film with wicked fast zombies came out in the USA on June 27, 2003. The British horror picture surprised everyone…
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Disney’s 36th animated feature film turned twenty-years-old this month. That’s right! On June 19, 1998, Mulan was released to throngs of Disney-obsessed Millennials, pre-iPhone era. That means painfully long box office lines of 10-year-old birthday party attendees, T-shirts…
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Love it or hate it, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is an unforgettable film. Starring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro, the film animates Hunter S. Thompson’s novel of the same name through committed performances…
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Flashdance inspired mania among the masses back in 1983, and Alex Owens’ passion for making it happen has influenced many a generation since its release. 35 years later it is still considered one of the…
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Of all the filmmakers in all the world, Steven Spielberg might be the most well-known. He’s been in the right place at the right time on several occasions, and many of his career highlights mark…
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The third and final piece of the Millenium film trilogy merges the intricate plotlines of the first two films into a neat conclusion. Daniel Alfredson takes the helm once again on The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s…
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The second installment of the film trilogy spawned from Steig Larson’s best-selling series Millennium, The Girl Who Played With Fire, takes place approximately one year after the Vanger case. The focus of the second film shifts to Lisbeth Salander’s life…
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The beauty of the short film is in its capability to deliver profound statements of truth in bite-sized time increments. Director/writer Sean Meehan explores the concept of a business built upon paid rehearsals of difficult…
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Readers had high expectations for the 2009 film adaptation of Steig Larson’s first novel from the crime series Millennium. Fortunately, lead actors Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist gave Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev a lot to…
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Action movies often draw mixed reviews from critics because of their focus on things like gunfights, car chases, and harrowing rescue scenes, which often come at the expense of plot continuity and purposeful dialogue. So,…