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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes – Cold as ice
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Read more: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes – Cold as iceThe Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a prequel, set sixty-four years prior to the events of The Hunger Games. My biggest concern going into Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was it would treat President Snow the way Anakin Skywalker or Maleficent were treated in their prequels. You know what I mean…
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Trolls Band Together: Road Trip
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Read more: Trolls Band Together: Road Trip“Trolls Band Together” – Road trip. In Hollywood’s never-ending quest to milk every franchise into a desiccated husk, they present to us Trolls Band Together. While being the third film entry in the franchise, Band Together is also preceded by two holiday specials and two television series spanning 104 episodes. If there was anything left…
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Five Nights at Freddy’s
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Read more: Five Nights at Freddy’s“Five Nights at Freddy’s” – Zoinks. When I was a kid, one of my television staples was Scooby-Doo. I always enjoyed how Scooby and the gang would get chased around by ghosts or witches while trying to solve whatever mystery they had been asked to solve. I didn’t care for the end of each episode,…
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Dumb Money
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Read more: Dumb Money“Dumb Money” – Cha-ching! People love to fantasize about striking it rich in various ways. Winning the lottery, nailing the parlay at the track, becoming a YouTube star, or inheriting a fortune from cranky old Aunt Ethyl after she falls into a pile of fur coats and suffocates to death. What’s that? Aunt Ethyl is…
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding #3
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Read more: My Big Fat Greek Wedding #3Everyone has that relative who loves nothing more than to set up a slide show for two hours of show-and-tell about their recent trip to Baton Rouge. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 was a lot like that slide show… [TV suddenly shuts off the football game mid-third-quarter] Aunt Nia: [Sets down remote control] Ok…
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Grand Turismo
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Read more: Grand Turismo“Gran Turismo” – Nerds…in…raaAaAAaaaAaaace. Every video gamer dreams of playing video games as a career profession. I once seriously considered applying for a job as a video game tester that listed among its requirements a “deep knowledge of baseball.” My childhood dream was to become a professional baseball player and a job playing a baseball…
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The Last Voyage Of The Demeter
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Read more: The Last Voyage Of The Demeter“The Last Voyage of the Demeter” – Batman begins. The following is a series of entries from a critic’s log. 9 Aug, 7:15 pm – While searching for my seat, I am surrounded by groups of people dressed as if it is Halloween. They are not dressed in the cheap outfits found at certain Halloween…
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Haunted Mansion
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Read more: Haunted Mansion“Haunted Mansion” – Disney Scary. The Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland was my favorite ride when I was a kid. I loved it so much that I would listen to my 78-rpm story-book record over and over until I fell asleep at night. And don’t think that I’ve grown out of it. I own Haunted…
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – Judgement Day
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Read more: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – Judgement Day“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” – Judgement Day. For more than seventy years, Hollywood has been fascinating and frightening people with various representations of artificial intelligence (AI). Sometimes the AI is good or well-intentioned, but more often the AI is sinister and trying to eradicate a few humans, if not all of humanity.…
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No Hard Feelings
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Read more: No Hard Feelings“No Hard Feelings” … Oh, the humanity. After reading the synopsis of No Hard Feelings I immediately wondered why an established and renowned actor like Jennifer Lawrence would choose to star in a film with all the hallmarks of a soiled diaper. It’s an understatement to say this kind of film is beneath Lawrence at…