Category: Reviews
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“Mission: Impossible – Fallout ” (2018) Thriller Running Time: 147 minutes Written by: Christopher McQuarrie Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie Featuring: Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Michelle Monaghan, Alec Baldwin, Henry Cavill and Angela Bassett August Walker: “How many times has Hunt’s government betrayed him, disavowed him, cast him aside? How long before a man like that has had enough?” Say…
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“Ant-Man and the Wasp” (2018) Action Running Time: 105 minutes Written by: Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Paul Rudd, Andrew Barrer, Gabriel Ferrari Directed by: Peyton Reed Featuring: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Peña, Walton Goggins, Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer, Tip “T.I.” Harris, David Dastmalchian, Hannah John-Kamen, Abby Ryder Fortson, Randall Park, Michelle Pfeiffer, Laurence Fishburne, and Michael Douglas Scott Lang: “I do some dumb things, and…
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“Paterno” (2018) Drama Running Time: 105 minutes Written by: Debora Cahn & John C. Richards Directed by: Barry Levinson Featuring: Al Pacino, Riley Keough, Kathy Baker, Greg Grunberg, Annie Parisse Sara Ganim: “Uh, I’m sorry. You said… 1976?” Movies about sports teams or personalities are a dime a dozen, every year in many formats they are released,…
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“Sicario: Day of the Soldado” (2018) Drama/Thriller Running Time: 122 minutes Written by: Taylor Sheridan Directed by: Stefano Sollima Featuring: Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Jeffrey Donovan, Isabela Moner, Catherine Keener, and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo Alejandro: [to Isabela] “You have no reason to trust me, but trusting me is how you’re going to survive.” There is no doubt in my mind that…
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“The Leisure Seeker” (2017) Drama/Comedy Running Time: 112 minutes Written by: Paolo Virzì, Francesca Archibugi, Francesco Piccolo and Stephen Amidon Directed by: Paolo Virzì Featuring: Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren Will Spencer: “So you know what happened, when was it, last year? I opened their bedroom door and she was on the bed and he was kneeling in…
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“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” (2018) Action Running Time: 128 minutes Written by: Colin Trevorrow & Derek Connolly Directed by: J. A. Bayona Featuring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, B. D. Wong, Jeff Goldblum , Rafe Spall, Justice Smith, Daniella Pineda, James Cromwell, Toby Jones, Ted Levine, Isabella Sermon, and Geraldine Chaplin Senator Sherwood: “Do these animals deserve the same protection given to other species? Or…
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“Hereditary” (2018) Horror Running Time: 127 minutes Written & Directed by: Ari Aster Featuring: Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, and Gabriel Byrne Charlie: “Who’s gonna take care of me?” Annie: “Uh, excuse me? You don’t think I’m gonna take care of you?” Charlie: “But when you die?” While watching the new familial horror movie “Hereditary” (2018)…
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“Crooked House” (2018) Comedy Running Time: 95 minutes Written by: Rob McKittrick & Mark Steilen Directed by: Jeff Tomsic Featuring: Ed Helms, Jake Johnson, Annabelle Wallis, Hannibal Buress, Isla Fisher, Rashida Jones, Jon Hamm, Leslie Bibb, Jeremy Renner Sable: “What’s the difference between Episcopalian and Lutheran?” Randy: “Episcopalians don’t eat fish.” Sable: “That’s… pescatarian, that’s… not a religion.” Randy: “They’re…
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“Crooked House” (2017) Drama/Mystery Running Time: 95 minutes Written by: Julian Fellowes & Tim Rose Price & Gilles Paquet-Brenner Directed by: Gilles Paquet-Brenner Featuring: Max Irons, Terence Stamp, Glenn Close, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Abbington, Christina Hendricks, Julian Sands and Stefanie Martini Josephine: “The murderer is never the one you initially suspect.” The last few years has seen a resurgence in the…
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“Ocean’s 8” (2018) Thriller/Comedy Running Time: 110 minutes Written by: Gary Ross & Olivia Milch Directed by: Gary Ross Featuring: Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, Rihanna, and Helena Bonham Carter Parole Officer: “Good afternoon, Miss Ocean. As you know parole is a privilege.” Debbie Ocean: “It’s a mistake. Uh, but it happened, and, um, if I were to be…
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“A Quiet Place” (2018) Thriller/Horror Running Time: 90 minutes Written by: John Krasinski, Bryan Woods and Scott Beck Directed by: John Krasinski Featuring: John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe Evelyn: “Who are we if we can’t protect them? We have to protect them.” Thanks to various decisions as well as new production companies, I am looking at you Blumhouse, there…
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“Kodachrome ” (2017) Drama Running Time: 100 minutes Written by: Jonathan Tropper Directed by: Mark Raso Featuring: Ed Harris, Jason Sudeikis, Elizabeth Olsen, Bruce Greenwood, Wendy Crewson, and Dennis Haysbert Ben: “We’re all so frightened by time, the way it moves on and the way things disappear. That’s why we’re photographers. We’re preservationists by nature. We take pictures to stop time, to…
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“Solo: A Star Wars Story” (2018) Sci-Fi Running Time: 135 minutes Written by: Jonathan Kasdan & Lawrence Kasdan Directed by: Ron Howard Featuring: Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Joonas Suotamo, and Paul Bettany Han Solo: “I heard a story about you. I was wondering if it’s true.” Lando Calrissian: “Everything you’ve heard about me is true.” Was anyone really wanting…
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“The Bookshop” (2018) Drama Written & Directed by: Isabel Coixet Based on the novel by Penelope Fitzgerald Featuring: Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson and Bill Nighy From the novel:“Courage and endurance are useless if they are never tested.” To say that this movie represents aspects of life that are from a bygone age is an understatement, it is a period…
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“The Strangers: Prey at Night ” (2018) Thriller/Horror Running Time: 85 minutes Written by: Bryan Bertino and Ben Ketai Directed by: Johannes Roberts Featuring: Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson, Bailee Madison and Lewis Pullman Kinsey: “Why are you doing this?” Dollface: “Why not?” Ever since the original home invasion horror “The Strangers” (2008) burst into cinemas it was a completely unusual as well…
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“Dark Crimes” (2018) Thriller Running Time: 92 minutes Written by:Jeremy Brock Directed by: Alexandros Avranas Featuring: Jim Carrey, Agata Kulesza, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kati Outinen, Zbigniew Zamachowski, and Marton Csokas Kozlow: “The river has an end and a beginning.” There is undoubtedly a dark side to Jim Carrey’s professional and personal persona, which has never been fully explored on film, although he…
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“Lucky” (2017) Drama Running Time: 90 minutes Written by: Logan Sparks and Drago Sumonja Directed by: John Carroll Lynch Featuring: Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston, Ed Begley Jr. and Tom Skerritt Lucky: “It’s all going to go away. You, you, you, you, me, this cigarette, everything… into blackness, the void. And nobody’s in…
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“Deadpool 2” (2018) Action Written by: Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick and Ryan Reynolds Directed by: David Leitch Featuring: Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, Julian Dennison, Zazie Beetz, T.J. Miller, Brianna Hildebrand, and Jack Kesy Deadpool: “Sorry, I’m late. I was rounding up all the gluten in the world and launching it into space where it can’t not hurt us ever again.” Here…
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“Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story” (2017) Documentary Running Time: 88 minutes Directed by: Alexandra Dean Featuring: Hedy Lamarr, Mel Brooks, Diane Kruger and many others Hedy Lamarr: “People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful,…
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“Hostiles” (2017) Western/Drama Running Time: 133 minutes Written & Directed by: Scott Cooper Featuring: Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Ben Foster, Stephen Lang, Jesse Plemons, Rory Cochrane, Adam Beach, Q’orianka Kilcher, and Timothée Chalamet Rosalie Quaid: “Sometimes I envy the finality of death. The certainty. And I have to drive those thoughts away when I wake.” I absolutely love Westerns; the genre keeps…
