Author: John Spry
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“Deepwater Horizon” (2016) Drama/Action/True Story Running Time: 107 minutes Director: Peter Berg Featuring: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Kate Hudson, John Malkovich, Ethan Suplee, Gina Rodriguez, Dylan O’Brien Donald Vidrine: “We a big company, millions of moving parts. We all work very hard to ensure those moving parts are functioning as a means to a very…
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“Narcos – Season One” (2015-) Drama, Television Series, Action, Thriller Episodes: 10 Created by: Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro, Chris Brancato Featuring: Wagner Moura, Boyd Holbrook, Pedro Pascal, Paulina Gaitan, Juan Murcia Pablo Escobar: “Geniuses are always branded as crazy.” Yet another excellent Netflix show makes it ways onto Blu-ray and DVD this month and like…
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“Labyrinth of Lies” (2014) Drama, German (subtitled) Running Time: 124 minutes Director: Giulio Ricciarelli Featuring: Alexander Fehling, Johannes Krisch, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Gert Voss, Friederike Becht Johann Radmann: “…the only response to Auschwitz is to do the right thing yourself.” I have to admit first off that I had no idea about the story behind this…
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“Sully” (2016) Drama, Based on Real Events Running Time: 119 minutes Director: Clint Eastwood Featuring: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney Chelsey “Sully” Sullenberger: “Everything is unprecedented until it happens for the first time.” On the surface this film may seem like an odd choice for a film – I mean how can you build…
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“Blair Witch” (2016) Horror/Found Footage Running Time: 99 minutes Director: Adam Wingard Featuring: James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Corbin Reid, Brandon Scott, Wes Robinson, Valorie Curry “There’s something evil hiding in the woods.” Were we really waiting for another Blair Witch sequel? On the evidence presented it turns out we were – and it lives…
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“Nerve” (2016) Running Time: 96 minutes Director: Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman Featuring: Emma Roberts, Dave Franco, Emily Meade, Juliette Lewis “Are you a watcher? Or are you a player?” This week see the release of the thriller “Nerve” featuring Emma Roberts and Dave Franco headlining a movie aimed at audience that has been spoilt…
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“Black Sails – Season Three” (2016) Running Time: 10 Hours Approx. Created by: Robert Levine & Jonathan E. Steinberg Featuring: Toby Stephens, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Hannah New, and Tom Hopper “Take what’s yours!” The story so far… Black Sails is set approximately twenty years after the classic Treasure Island story and during the age of…
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“Scare Campaign” (2016) Horror/Running Time: 76 minutes Director: Cameron Cairnes & Colin Cairnes Featuring: Meegan Warner, Ian Meadows, Olivia DeJonge Over the past few years there have been quite a few low budget films coming out of Australia and while the quality does range quite a bit, the films themselves are original and watchable from…
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Stanley Kubrick: The Blu-ray Collection Over the past few months we have seen the release of three seminal Stanley Kubrick films, and now these have been put together as one three disc set – these are films Kubrick made outside his Warner Brothers work – they are all excellent and see the filmmaker working in…
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Lonesome Dove – The Ultimate Collection This month sees the release of the Lonesome Dove – Ultimate Collection on DVD a huge set that encompasses all that is best about this saga that tells the story of two Texas Rangers in the cauldron that was the 1800s wild west. This set is over…
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“Where to Invade Next” (2015) Directed and Featuring: Michael Moore Michael Moore: “I am an American. I live in a great country, that was born in genocide and built on the backs of slaves.” Michael Moore has become his own brand over the past twenty five years, helping usher in the ego driven documentary. He…
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“Donnie Darko” (2001) Directed by: Richard Kelly Featuring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Patrick Swayze, Drew Barrymore, Noah Wylie, Mary McDonnell Donnie: “Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit?” Frank: “Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?” This week sees the release of the 15th anniversary bluray of “Donnie Darko”, a film that has,…
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“Bad Moms ” (2016) Running Time: 100 minutes Director: Jon Lucas and Scott Moore Featuring: Mila Kunis, Kathryn Hahn, Kristen Bell, Christina Applegate, Jada Pinkett Smith, Annie Momolo Amy: “We all work too damn hard trying to make our kids’ lives amazing and magical. Their lives already are amazing and magical. Let’s be bad moms!”…
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“War Dogs” (2016) Running Time: 114 minutes Director: Todd Phillips Featuring: Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, Kevin Pollak, Bradley Cooper David Packouz: [voice over] “My name is David Packouz. I’m twenty-two years old and I’m an international arms dealer. Six months ago I was a massage therapist in Miami Beach, and now here I was with…
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“The Purge: Election Year” (2016) Running Time: 105 minutes Director: James DeMonaco Featuring: Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mykelti Williamson, Terry Serpico, Kyle Secor PSA: “Blessed be our New Founding Fathers for letting us Purge and cleanse our souls. Blessed be America, a nation reborn.” This film could not have been timed more appropriately with the…
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“Suicide Squad” (2016) Running Time: 130 minutes Director: David Ayer Featuring: Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Common, Jai Courtney, Joel Kinnaman Rick Flagg: “Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you people.” Harley Quinn: “I can be known to be quite vexing.” After what seems like an eternity “Suicide Squad” (2016) is…
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“Jason Bourne” (2016) Running Time: 117 minutes Director: Paul Greengrass Featuring: Matt Damon, Alicia Vikander, Tommy Lee Jones, Vincent Cassel, Julia Stiles, Riz Ahmed CIA Director Robert Dewey: “Why would he come back now?” Good question! And the answer is believable – kind of… After nine years Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon finally reteam for…
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“Lights Out” (2016) Running Time: 81 minutes Director: David F. Sandberg Featuring: Teresa Palmer, Maria Bello, Gabriel Bateman, Billy Burke, Alexander DiPersia Martin: “I’ve been sleeping with the lights on. Every time I turn them off there’s this woman, she doesn’t like the light.” Its refreshing going to the movies and seeing a horror film that…
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“45 years” (2016) Running Time: 95 minutes Director: Andrew Haigh Featuring: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, and Geraldine James Kate Mercer: “Its funny how you forget the things in life that make you happy.” This is the kind of adult drama that is becoming a rare commodity in the film world; it shares nothing but DNA…
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“Law and Order: UK” – Series 3 & 4 Running Time: 630 minutes approximately Featuring: Bradley Walsh, Harriet Walker, Ben Daniels, Bll Paterson, Jamie Bamber, Freema Agyeman, Opening: “In the Criminal Justice System the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important groups. The police who investigate crime and the District Attorneys who prosecute…
