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We all won because these Hidden Figures reached for the stars
The nation was full of hope and fears in so many ways back in 1961 when these folks at NASA were busting butt to keep up with the Russians, a President on small screens seen by huge groups voicing...
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Patriots Day strikes the right blow for heroes rising from the terror
The heroes rose immediately from amid the victims that horrible sunny April morning at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, and Patriots Day does one hell of a job reminding us all about how high...
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The boy from Mars and a girl from Earth make their own space
Director Peter Chelsom has delivered to this world with The Space Between Us two movies in one. The first is a space story, a tale of a frantically motivated businessman driven to bring humankind to a...
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Who’s the real outcast in Table 19, you’ll wonder
Oh, Eloise seems so put together as she makes her entrance way back there to sit with the other (very) strangers sitting around table in the way back in the reception of her best friend, whose brother...
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CHIPS isn’t exactly TV nostalgia, but there’s still something funny about Dax...
If you’re one of the many millions who’ve taken comfort in the motorcycle-riding savvy and people skills of Jon Baker and Frank Llewelyn Poncherello in the half-drama, half-comedy TV hour CHiPs that...
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Denzel Washington casts an imposing figure in Fences, but Viola Davis won’t...
Denzel Washington slams grand at the center of August Wilson’s family tale Fences. Washington directed and stands tall (and wide) as Troy Maxson, the self-made leader of his gathering in the proud...
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The Fate of the Furious is to keep our eyes popping, still
When a movie franchise reaches installment eight, fans are going to the theater either out of habit, fierce loyalty or morbid curiosity. Maybe even some fearful combination of all of the above. Have no...
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Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn grab my guilty laughs in Snatched
You couldn’t help but root for Amy Schumer in her movie premiere from 2015, Trainwreck. Now that was a romantic comedy that showed off every bid of her wit and wisdom, as she wrote and starred as a...
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The Big Sick makes me feel good about romantic comedy
Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani really lived The Big Sick. And the writer and stand-up comic/actor had enough smarts – and guts – to take their how’d-we-meet story to paper together and allow...
View ArticleHugh Jackman shows he’s quite the great showman, indeed
Everything about The Greatest Showman comes off quite grand. And when we’re looking at the life of the guy who was grand enough to all he had and some things he didn’t on the line to bring the world...
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