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Movie Review: “Uncut Gems”
Jeweler Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler) is a gambler with a lot of debt and creditors seeking to get paid. In a Ponzi like scheme, Howard takes in valuable assets (like Kevin Garnett’s (yes, the real Garnett) basketball championship ring) pawns it, takes the money to gamble, then, hopefully has the money to get the ring…
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Movie Review: “Irish Wish”
Paul Kennedy (Alexander Vlahos) has just completed his next book. His long time editor, Maddie Kelly (Lindsay Lohan) is happy to not take the credit she deserves for his success, because….. She loves Paul. Then….Paul meets Maddie’s best friend, Emma (Elizabeth Tan), and sparks fly, fireworks go off, and it is LOVE at first sight.…
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Movie Review: “Wonka”
After spending 7 years at sea, and having developed a line of chocolates that are “exquisite”, Willy Wonka (Timothee Chalamet) is ready to settle down and make money selling his chocolates. He even has a place staked out for his factory. Unfortunately, that location is surrounded by other chocolate manufacturers….and they are not happy about…
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Movie Review: “Upgraded”
Art Historian, Ana (Camila Mendes), has just started working for an auction house run by demanding Claire (Marissa Tomei) and her two nasty assistants, Suzette (Rachel Matthews) and Renee (Fola Evans-Akingbola). Being the third assistant, Ana is treated badly by the entire team. She gets the worst jobs, the worst hotel rooms, the worst seating…
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Movie Review: “Pain Hustlers”
Liza Drake (Emily Blunt) is dancing at a strip club to support her and her young daughter Phoebe (Chloe Coleman). Between dances, Liza sidles up to the bar next to some guy and, eventually, makes a few extra bucks doing what she does best: talking and snookering. One night, Liza sits next to Pete Brenner…
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Movie Review: “Players”
Sports writer, Mack (Gina Rodriguez) and her team of lifelong friends, Adam (Damon Wayans Jr.), Brannagan (Augustus Prew), and Little (Joel Courtney) have spent years perfecting a ton of “plays” to land someone in bed with one of the team members. The “plays” work really well. 🙂 One day, Mack meets fellow writer, Nick (Tom…
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Movie Review: “Damsel”
Centuries ago A dragon and the then king of a wealthy realm made an agreement to spare the king’s life: The dragon would, every generation, receive the offering of three daughters of the king and queen to keep the dragon from killing everyone in the realm. Now The citizens of a poor realm run by…
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Movie Review: “A Haunting in Venice”
It’s 1947 and world reknown detective, Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) is happily retired in Venice, Italy tending to his flower garden. An old friend and famous mystery author (who mentioned Hercule in many of her books) Agath…….errr, Ariadne Oliver (Tina Fey), asks Hercule to attend a seance with the express intent to debunk the psychic,…
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Movie Review: “Meg 2: The Trench”
A team of researchers headed by, Jiuming Zhang (Jing Wu), are studying the depths of the Mariana Trench when they accidently uncover an unknown predator lurking at those same ocean depths: A mining company that is making billions of dollars off of rare earth material found only at 25,000 feet below the surface, and they…
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