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Review of “iZombie” (seasons 1 & 2)
* * * * A Rose McIver), an overachieving medical resident, becomes a zombie and takes a job as an assistant medical examiner. She...
Jan 21, 20181 min read
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Review of “Batman Begins” (rewatch)
* * * B Batman Begins retells the Batman origin story. When the man who killed Bruce Wayne’s parents is released from prison, Bruce...
Jan 20, 20181 min read
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Women Dominate the Box Office, but not Award Shows
Female trouble: how can the Oscars fix the scandal of all-male director lists? My suggestion: by rewarding the films that people actually...
Jan 15, 20184 min read
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Review of “Equals” (spoilers)
* * C Nicholas “R” Hoult). After a future calamity, the remnant of humanity live in a society where all emotions are chemically...
Jan 9, 20181 min read
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Review of “Riddick”
* * * B In the second act, mercenaries arrive, hoping to collect the bounty on Riddick. He begins a cat and mouse game with them, which...
Jan 7, 20181 min read
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Review of “The Defenders”
* * * B Iron Fist. The event that brings the four heroes together is the fact that the leader of the Hand (Sigourney “Ripley” Weaver) has...
Jan 7, 20181 min read
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Worst Movies/Series I Watched in 2017
Cinderella (2014) This is truly an awful film. I ran across it by accident. It may deserve to be lower on the list, but it wasn’t...
Dec 30, 20171 min read
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Best Movies/Series of 2017
Justice League This much maligned film was still pretty good, despite its flaws. If you haven’t seen it, its worth a watch. Spider-Man...
Dec 29, 20172 min read
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Review of “Luke Cage” (season 1)
* * C Mahershala Ali) is an excellent villain. The story is straight out of a Louis L’Amour western, with Luke using his powers instead...
Dec 27, 20171 min read
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Review of “Spider-Man: Homecoming”
* * * B Tom Holland) is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), and is working with Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.). The film starts...
Dec 26, 20171 min read
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Which 2018 Movies will be Worth Seeing?
list of films to be released in 2018. I’m going to comment on the ones that look interesting, much as I did in September, but this time,...
Dec 24, 20173 min read
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Review of “Bright” (mild spoilers)
* * C Joel Edgerton). They become involved in a plot to resurrect “The Dark Lord”, a mysterious tyrant from the first millennium who is...
Dec 23, 20171 min read
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Comparing Cinemascore, Rotten Tomatoes, and Box Office
The first obvious anomaly is the Rotten Tomatoes audience score for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Why is it so low? Actual audiences gave the...
Dec 23, 20171 min read
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Review of “Jessica Jones” (season 1)
* * C Krysten Ritter did a good job with the title character, and her physical acting was believable. Her love interest, Luke Cage (Mike...
Dec 23, 20171 min read
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Review of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” (mild spoilers)
* * * * A Daisy Ridley) and her conflict with Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), gives Finn (John Boyega) a subplot that was for me the weakest of...
Dec 18, 20171 min read
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Review of “Stranger Things” (season 2)
* * * B Stranger Things, the excellent NetFlix series, is back for another season. This time around, there are a few new cast members,...
Dec 17, 20171 min read
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Review of “Daredevil” (seasons 1 & 2)
* * * B Charlie Cox). Matt is blind, but has a unique gift that allows his remaining senses to give him perception that is in many ways...
Dec 9, 20172 min read
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Review of “Moana”
* D Auli’i Cravalho playing the title roll, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson voicing Maui, the Polynesian Loki. Temuera “Jango” Morrison...
Dec 5, 20171 min read
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Review of “American Assassin”
* D Dylan O’Brien) is caught up in an Islamic terror attack, and his fiancee is killed in front of his eyes. He then trains and joins...
Dec 5, 20171 min read
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Review of “Blade Runner 2049” (spoilers)
* * C K (Ryan Gosling) is a Blade Runner (rogue replicant hunter) who is himself a replicant. He has a girlfriend, Joi (Ana de Armas) who...
Dec 4, 20171 min read
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