08 January
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JUST MERCY Director: Destin Daniel CrettonStarring: Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson, Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson, Rafe Spall, O’Shea Jackson Jr. Just Mercy takes us back to Monroe County Alabama in 1987. Michael B. Jordan plays Bryan Stevenson a recent Harvard Law graduate who partners with Eva Ansley (Larson) to provide legal services for death row inmates. One of his new clients is Walter McMillian, played by Jamie Foxx, who was wrongfully sentenced for the murder of an 18 year old woman. The film is based on a true story adapted from Bryan Stevenson’s memoir. Here’s my reviewRead More →

24 June
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JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM Director: J.A. Bayona Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rafe Spall, Jeff Goldblum, Justice Smith, Daniella Pineda, James Cromwell, Toby Jones, Ted Levine, BD Wong, Geraldine Chaplin, Isabella Sermon I didn’t think we could get much worse in the Jurassic franchise than the first sequel, The Lost World, in 1997. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom attempts to reach such lows. To be quite fair, it’s been years since I’ve watched The Lost World, so I can’t accurately assess which ranks as the worst in the franchise’s history. Since we were last on the island of Isla Nublar, the island is in roughRead More →

30 June
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THE BFG Director: Steven Spielberg Starring: Mark Rylance, Rebecca Hall, Bill Hader, Ruby Barnhill, Jemaine Clement, Rafe Spall, Penelope Wilton There’s something nostalgic about seeing a Steven Spielberg film with the Amblin Entertainment studio logo playing before it starts. Spielberg and his crew composing of producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, trusty DP Janusz Kaminski and composer John Williams are back together again. This time the team takes on one of Roald Dahl’s beloved creations, The BFG. For a little girl named Sophie (Barnhill), the witching hour is that time in the middle of the night when the boogeyman comes out and people go missing.Read More →

23 December
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THE BIG SHORT Director: Adam McKay Starring: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, Hamish Linklater, Jeremy Strong, Finn Wittrock, John Magaro, Marisa Tomei, Rafe Spall If you saw The Wolf of Wall Street, it gave a heavy, behind the scenes look at a horrible stockbroker that stole money from innocent people to rake in the profits. The Big Short tackles the banking industry and will further cement those awful hidden truths of the industry except with 90% less profanity. 2008 saw the largest financial crisis that shook the lives of millions of Americans. It crashed the housing market and pummeled big banks asRead More →

25 November
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LIFE OF PI Director: Ang Lee Starring: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Gérard Depardieu Pi Patel (Khan) has an extraordinary tale of survival and faith to tell. Some may even find it too hard to believe. He sits down with a writer (Spall) and goes back to his to childhood and how he received the nickname Pi. He was named “Piscine” after a French swimming pool his parents attended and loved. He was horribly teased in school and called “Pissin’ Patel”. He promptly shorted it to Pi, like the math symbol, after he had enough of the taunting. He grew up in a strictRead More →