#A Wonderful Balm for 2020 – /Film

#A Wonderful Balm for 2020 – /Film

“#A Wonderful Balm for 2020 – /Film” With Wonder Woman, director Patty Jenkins went to war for the right to be a little cheesy. The 2017 superhero movie was decadent with sincerity, with an unabashed hope for humanity that made it a lone bright spot in the increasingly dour comic book movie landscape. With Wonder Woman…

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#‘Archenemy’ Review: Joe Manganiello Leads an Incendiary Superhero Movie Unlike Anything You’ve Seen Before

#‘Archenemy’ Review: Joe Manganiello Leads an Incendiary Superhero Movie Unlike Anything You’ve Seen Before

“#‘Archenemy’ Review: Joe Manganiello Leads an Incendiary Superhero Movie Unlike Anything You’ve Seen Before” “The world is a really complicated place right now. America is a really complicated place right now. And I’m not a politician or an activist, but I do feel a responsibility to put positive, powerful, meaningful messages out into the world…you…

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#A Definitive Horror Film – /Film

#A Definitive Horror Film – /Film

“#A Definitive Horror Film – /Film” In the grand tradition of movies that are hard to write about without spoiling, this one comes out a frontrunner. Trust me when I say you do yourself a disservice to ask too many questions before seeing the film. Go in as blind as possible, dear reader, and pay…

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#An Old School Sports Drama – /Film

#An Old School Sports Drama – /Film

“#An Old School Sports Drama – /Film” Over the past 13 months, Disney+ has released a series of original films that are all heavily indebted to the era of live-action filmmaking that preceded the Marvel Cinematic Universe, before the studio had been packed full of franchises. In the last three weeks alone, they’ve leaned heavily…

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#Emotional, Powerful Punch – /Film

#Emotional, Powerful Punch – /Film

“#Emotional, Powerful Punch – /Film” Netflix churns out content at a mile a minute, but every now and then, there’s a title that demands that you stop and think for a moment. And this month, there are three — though they’ll only ask that you stop and think for about 10 minutes. Three diverse Netflix…

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#Soderbergh At Sea – /Film

#Soderbergh At Sea – /Film

“#Soderbergh At Sea – /Film” Can you even imagine going on a cruise again? I’m sure some people are perfectly fine with the idea – heck, some people would be willing to go right now, this very second, if they could. But here in the age of the coronavirus, cruises seem like floating Petri dishes; isolated…

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#Watch Enchanted Again Instead – /Film

#Watch Enchanted Again Instead – /Film

“#Watch Enchanted Again Instead – /Film” Disney cannot resist cannibalizing itself, even after it’s had a good helping. The existence of Disney+ allows the larger company to continue remaking its animated films in live-action form, or rebooting them, or re-imagining them, or re-whatever-ing them. The new Disney+ film Godmothered would fall into the “re-imagining” camp;…

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#Broadway is back on Netflix

#Broadway is back on Netflix

“#Broadway is back on Netflix” Running time: 130 minutes. Rated PG-13 (for thematic elements, some suggestive/sexual references and language.) On Netflix Dec. 11. Making the Broadway musical “The Prom” into a film was a risky move for Ryan Murphy. The cute little show by Matthew Sklar, Chad Beguelin and Bob Martin was warmly received when it…

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