Samaritan ‘Sylvester Stallone’: movie review & film summary (2022)
“25 years ago the world’s greatest superhero vanished,” according to the poster for Prime Video’s “Samaritan.” The narration by Sam (Javon ‘Wanna’ Walton) that opens the film gives us the Cliffs Notes version of how he did. Samaritan had a…
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Jim Carrey Is #1 On Streaming With This Surprising Movie
There is an entire genre of Jim Carrey movies destined for streaming services. While the actor has more than proven himself in dramatic roles (with acclaimed parts in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Truman Show) and became one of the…
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Our Father: Netflix viewers disgusted by ‘sick’ fertility doctor in documentary
New film tells of how a fertility doctor inseminated patients with his sperm without consent Netflix viewers have shared their “disgust” after watching new documentary Our Father, about the actions of American fertility doctor Donald Cline. The film, released on Wednesday (11 May), introduces…
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The Northman Deserves More Than Cult Classic Status
Director Robert Eggers’ new movie has an opportunity to prove an artful viking epic can battle the summer superheroes. IN A RECENT interview, the director Robert Eggers reflected on the experience of helming his first potential blockbuster. The Northman, out now, is,…
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‘Aline’: Film Review
A fictionalized Céline Dion biopic, writer-director-star Valérie Lemercier’s showbiz saga covers the highs and few lows of the French-Canadian singing superstar’s life and career. Initially strange, then mildly amusing, and eventually just kind of whatever, Francophone musical success story Aline is the…
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Choose or Die is the #1 New Movie On Netflix
Netflix has a brand new film out and it recently hit #1 on the platform in the US, UK, and several other countries. Choose or Die, formerly titled CURS>R, may be riding high on the top of the charts, but based on reviews this…
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Idris Elba Confirms Luther Movie Has Wrapped Filming
Idris Elba, who stars as the detective John Luther, confirms that Netflix’s Luther movie continuing the hit BBC series has finished production. Idris Elba confirms the Luther movie has completed filming. Premiering in 2010, the BBC series of the same…
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‘The Girl and the Spider’: Film Review
Exploring a turning point in a young woman’s life, the second feature by ‘The Strange Little Cat’ filmmakers Ramon and Silvan Zürcher is, like their first, set largely within the confines of an apartment. Moving day — the logistics, the…
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Roku’s ‘Swimming With Sharks’: TV Review
Kathleen Robertson’s take on the 1994 film features Diane Kruger as a demanding executive and Kiernan Shipka as a seemingly innocent assistant who isn’t that innocent. I’m a sucker for direct-to-video nominal sequels to well-made ’90s cult favorites that latch…
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Mark Wahlberg and Mel Gibson in ‘Father Stu’: Film Review
Jacki Weaver co-stars in a true story about a former boxer and two-bit actor who became an unlikely priest. “Faith-based” movies have an appeal to certain audiences, but they also carry a less savory whiff to nonbelievers or skeptics. Mark Wahlberg,…
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