Sexy Mother Russia - TWB90
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This is not about elections, steel dossiers, or FBI reports I will never read. This is all about how sexy, crazy, cool, and dangerous those Russians can be on screen and off.
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Road Trip Heroes - TWB89
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15:17 to Paris is a Clint Eastwood film made for Lifetime that somehow made it to the big screen. A better road trip movie with a less inspirational story is Eurotrip.
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Sharks Plus Ocean Equals Scary - TWB88
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Recently, Warner Bros. released The Meg as proof that sharks are not bankable unless you make them silly. As frightening a creature as sharks seem, they are never good subjects for a movie. There are very few plots involving sharks in which to script an original film. Depending on the idea, a thrilling shark movie should never be over-conceptualized. Just keep it simple: sharks plus ocean equals scary.
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Netflix at The Oscars With Steven Spielberg -TWB87
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Roma did not win Best Picture. Whether this was a slight jab at the streaming giant or a well-deserved win for the other movie, the Oscars are not the same and never will be. But fear not, our Spectacled Crusader is here to save Hollywood from going Hollywood.
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Bohemian Travesty - TWB86
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At face value, Bohemian Rhapsody is a paint-by-the-numbers biopic without the celebratory weight of a meaningful story.
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State of Fear 2018
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Halloween has a newfound popularity rooted in a remake that is a sequel (a remakequel) to the beginnings of a franchise relaunch. Not new material, but there’s a case for simplicity with horror movies that over time lost to the evolving use of special effects and jump scares. Halloween (2018) wasn’t a great movie; however, it is what this genre needs as a reflection back to when simple storying telling thrilled the masses.
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Hollywood, We Have a Problem with Movie Franchises
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Remakes and Franchises make movie watching boring these days. Same ol’ this and with a sprinkle of that thing already imagined. Jurassic World and Ocean’s 8 are two examples of films —this summer— whose failure to deviate from the plot and character development of it’s precursors to produced a final product that hit all the marks of fanfare but lacked originality.
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Subscribe Me to Movie Pass - TWB83
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The movie theatre is a venue; a luxury, to which only some of us can afford to indulge regularly. Subscription services, like, Movies Pass, Stubs, and Cinemark’s Movie Club make that indulgence a more considerable option than waiting for movies to premiere on Netflix. No matter who’s paying, it’s a great experience when we’re paying less.
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Black Panther is The Only Black James Bond We Need - TWB82
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Black Panther is the only black James Bond we need. He has the tech, a suave demeanor, and the well intent to undermine criminal minds who threaten his nations. It would be great to have a black James Bond character on the big screen but as long as he or she is not James Bond and more Bond-like.
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Solo is The Ultimate George Lucas Clapback - TWB81
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If you hated Solo, you brought this upon yourself!
info_outlineThis is not about elections, steel dossiers, or FBI reports I will never read. This is all about how sexy, crazy, cool, and dangerous those Russians can be on screen and off.
Movies with actors doing Russian Things:
- Vanessa Angel from Spies Like Us
- Viggo Mortenson from that one killer movie, Eastern Promises
- Everyone in White Nights. Even Gregory Hines, a defector from the U.S. Mikhail Baryshnikov, Helen Mirren, and Isabella Rossellini
- Salt - Angelina Jolie
Red Sparrow is a film, starring Jennifer Lawrence, about a young ballerina recruited into an elite organization of spies who use sex, not guns as a weapon.
- Red Sparrow opened at the wrong time of the #metoo movement, or was it just in time to justify the cause?
This, That and Other News
- The case of Sergei and Anna Chapman.
- Maria Butina who sales couches and US gun toting charm.
- This guy fakes his own death to elude an assassination plot.
- Sex coaches offer up the goods, America doesn't bite.
- The Cold War scare. Even in the early eighties, we had to prepare for a potential bomb scare/ nuclear fallout. Duck and cover.
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