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Movie Review – Hotel Mumbai (2019)

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Hotel Mumbai, 2019.Directed by Anthony Maras. Starring Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, Jason Isaacs, Anupam Kher, Amandeep Singh, Suhail Nayyar, Kapil Kumar Netra, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Sachin Joab, Rodney Afif, Zenia Starr, Rohan Mirchandaney, Alex Pinder, and Pawan Singh.SYNOPSIS:The true story of the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel terrorist attack in Mumbai. Hotel […]

Movie Review – The Highwaymen (2019)

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The Highwaymen, 2019.Directed by John Lee Hancock. Starring Woody Harrelson, Kevin Costner, Kathy Bates, John Carroll Lynch, Kim Dickens, Thomas Mann, W. Earl Brown, Emily Brobst, and Edward Bossert.SYNOPSIS:A pair of police officers come out of retirement to catch the infamous outlaws Bonnie & Clyde.I’m all for bad ideas that could prove me wrong and […]

Movie Review – Us (2019)

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Us, 2019.Written and Directed by Jordan Peele. Starring Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Evan Alex, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Kara Hayward, Anna Diop, Cali Sheldon, Noelle Sheldon, Madison Curry, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.SYNOPSIS:A family’s serenity turns to chaos when a group of doppelgängers begins to terrorize them.Opening up with some text, Us drops […]

Movie Review – The Aftermath (2019)

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The Aftermath, 2019.Directed by James Kent. Starring Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgård, Jason Clarke, Flora Thiemann, Alexander Scheer, Fionn O’Shea, Frederick Preston, Anna Katharina Schimrigk, Jack Laskey, Joseph Arkley, Kate Phillips, Tom Bell, and Martin Compston.SYNOPSIS:Post World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but […]

Movie Review – Dragged Across Concrete (2019)

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Dragged Across Concrete, 2019.Written and Directed by S. Craig Zahler. Starring Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Don Johnson, Jennifer Carpenter, Michael Jai White, Tory Kittles, Laurie Holden, Udo Kier, Liannet Borrego, Trezzo Mahoro, Fred Melamed, Andrew Dunbar, Giacomo Baessato, Primo Allon, Jenn Griffin, Myles Truitt, Justine Warrington, Brett Alexander Davidson, Cardi Wong, Vivian Ng, Alexander Soto, […]

Movie Review – Triple Threat (2019)

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Triple Threat, 2019.Directed by Jesse V. Johnson Starring Tiger Hu Chen, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Scott Adkins, Michael Jai White, Michael Bisping, JeeJa Yanin, Selina Lo, Daniel Whyte, Michael Wong, Ron Smoorenburg, Dominiquie Vandenberg, and Celina JadeSYNOPSIS:A hit contract is taken out on a billionaires daughter intent on bringing down a major crime syndicate. A […]

Movie Review – Wonder Park (2019)

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Wonder Park, 2019.Written by Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec. Featuring the voice talents of Brianna Denski, Matthew Broderick. Jennifer Garner, Sofia Mali, Kenan Thompson, Ken Jeong, Mila Kunis, John Oliver, Norbert Leo Butz, and Ken Hudson Campbell.SYNOPSIS:Wonder Park tells the story of a magnificent amusement park where the imagination of a wildly creative girl named […]

Movie Review – Five Feet Apart (2019)

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Five Feet Apart, 2019.Directed by Justin Baldoni. Starring Cole Sprouse, Haley Lu Richardson, Moisés Arias, Kimberly Hebert Gregory, Parminder Nagra, Emily Baldoni, Gary Weeks, and Claire Forlani.SYNOPSIS:Two teenagers with life-threatening illnesses meet in a hospital and fall in love.Technically not a cinematic universe, the latest edition of diseased and doomed star-crossed teenagers, Five Feet Apart, focuses […]

Movie Review – Transit (2018)

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Transit, 2018.Written and Directed by Christian Petzold. Starring Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt, and Sebastian Hülk.SYNOPSIS:In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young woman searching for […]

Movie Review – Triple Frontier (2019)

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Triple Frontier, 2019.Directed by J.C. Chandor. Starring Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Pedro Pascal, Garrett Hedlund, Adria Arjona, Sheila Vand, and Reynaldo Gallegos.SYNOPSIS:Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.I would hope most people reading this review already understand that […]