Tag: In Theaters
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Furious 7 (2015)
Like many of the action stunts that have occurred during its seven film run, the trajectory of the Fast & Furious franchise is defying belief. Nobody imagined at its inception, when it started as a not-so-subtle rip-off of Point Break that substituted fast cars for surfboards, that it would spawn…
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It Follows (2015)
The horror genre has become like the rom-com genre to me; there is a lot of content generated, and most of it is pandering garbage. In the midst of that garbage, there are a handful of hidden gems every year that pleasantly surprise and are genuinely enjoyable and rise above the…
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Cinderella (2015)
Cinderella is a modern update of the classic fairy tale that remains faithful to the source material, looks great, and deals with themes of courage, kindness, grace, and forgiveness.
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Chappie (2015)
Neill Blomkamp burst onto the movie scene in 2009 with District 9, a sci-fi film backed by Peter Jackson that tackled societal issues in South Africa through the prism of alien living in Johannesburg slums that had essentially crash-landed on earth and were segregated from humans. He followed it up with…
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What We Do In The Shadows (2015)
What If I told you that some of the minds behind Flight of the Conchords got together and made a mockumentary film? What if I told you it was a mockumentary about vampires? And what if I told you it was a mockumentary about four different kinds of popular vampires…
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Focus (2015)
Focus lost me early and never won me back because it cons the audience and think’s it’s smart because of it. And while Smith and Robbie are good, the movie is boring for long stretches.
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Still Alice (2014)
My grandfather passed away nearly two years ago after battling Parkinson’s Disease for many years. It was a disease that subtly hemmed his life in more and more around him; starting with hand tremors and slowly but surely taking more and more individual ability away from him until he was…
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Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)
January to March is a dark period of the calendar for theatrical releases. Aside from the Oscar contenders that go wide after getting an earlier limited release, a lot of the movies released are dumped because the studio knows they’re not that good. It’s easy to be dubious or dismissive…
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The Theory of Everything (2014)
Stephen Hawking, the brilliant theoretical physicist betrayed by his own body and confined to a wheelchair is given the biopic treatment in director James Marsh’s The Theory of Everything. Hawking is a master in his field and the success he has achieved in the face of such physical limitations is…
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