Criminal is the second Ryan Reynolds personality-switching movie in the last two years; the third, if you count Deadpool (the other was Self/Less). If there really is such a thing as a personality-switching genre, then Reynolds has absolutely cornered it. However, […]
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Network (1976) ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Of the really good movie crop of 1976, which includes All the President’s Men, Network, Rocky, Taxi Driver, Carrie, Marathon Man, The Shootist, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Silver Streak and The Pink Panther Strikes Again, to name some obvious favorites of my […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: A Face in the Crowd (1957) The King of Comedy (1983) Mark of the Vampire (1935) Network (1976) Topkapi (1964) All of these […]
Continue reading »Hello, My Name is Doris (2016) ☆ 1/2
Actresses over 40 often complain, or certainly used to, about the lack of good roles for them. That situation has improved, yet along with the good roles come others that are stupid or misguided, in my opinion, and this is […]
Continue reading »Eye in the Sky (2016) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Modern warfare is wholly different than it used to be, as evidenced by Eye in the Sky, in which suspected terrorists in Kenya are targeted for capture by British and American forces, and then as the situation escalates, termination. But this […]
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