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Josh Lasser is a freelance entertainment reporter/critic. His work has appeared in print, online, and perhaps one day in book form.
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Movie Review: "xXx: The Return of Xander Cage"
The 1990s offered up a “Knight Rider” spinoff television series called “Team Knight Rider.” The opening of the show, essentially, explained that while in the past one man and one car could accomplish the job of saving the world (or… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "Split" (2017)
Horror movies need a good villain. That is, after all, what they’re all about – some individual(s) who can scare the bejesus out of an audience. M. Night Shyamalan’s latest, “Split,” gets about halfway there. It offers a great idea… Read More ›
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"Lass is More" Enters the "Death Race 2050"
The newest “Death Race” movie, “Death Race 2050” is out on Blu-ray today (you may recall our piece from New York Comic-Con on the panel for the film) and it harkens back to the original film, “Death Race 2000” and… Read More ›
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"Lass is More" Boards the "Train to Busan"
It isn’t that “Train to Busan” is a bad zombie, or even just a bad movie, it’s that there are some notable issues with logic in the film. That bothers me. It bothers me so much. “Train to Busan” isn’t… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "A Monster Calls"
What does it take to bring the imagination of one child to life on the big screen? J.A. Bayona has the answer and offers it up in the utterly heartbreaking, completely devastating, totally brilliant “A Monster Calls.” Written by… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "20th Century Women"
It feels like this year in general, and this time of year in particular, is the right moment to ask ourselves a question about what constitutes a family. I would argue—as I believe I have previously—that family isn’t simply something… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "Patriot’s Day"
Director Peter Berg is great with depicting action sequences in a powerful, believable, riveting manner. We have already seen this once in 2016 with “Deepwater Horizon.” However, Berg is even better, an absolute master, when it comes to militaristic action…. Read More ›
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"Lass is More" Knows Something About George Bailey
“It’s a Wonderful Life” is one of those films which I watch every year. Every. Single. Year. It’s been that way for the better part of a decade, and the movie never seems to get old, it never seems to… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "Sing" (2016)
If you have watched any of the trailers for “Sing,” you have been, as you would be for any movie, conditioned to expect certain things from the film. In this case that’s a whole lot of animated animals singing pop… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "Why Him?"
The James Franco-Bryan Cranston-Zoey Deutch comedy, “Why Him?” is not entirely devoid of laughs. That isn’t particularly high praise, but the movie isn’t particularly funny and it never feels like it’s trying terribly hard. I know I regularly bring up… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "Office Christmas Party"
The more I watch Kate McKinnon on television and in movies, the more convinced I am that she is going to be here making people laugh for years to come (and the happier I am about that fact, too). She… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "La La Land"
There are fewer musicals produced by Hollywood than there used to be. Well, I say that there are but I haven’t run the numbers, I assume that there are… it certainly feels like there are. When they come along though,… Read More ›
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"Lass is More" Goes Political with "Florence Foster Jenkins"
The description for “Lass is More” states that the movies and television shows which we watch are not created in a vacuum. No, these things exist in a dialogue with the real world. So, today, even if I would rather… Read More ›
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"Lass is More" Looks at Escaping with "The Secret Life of Pets"
It is like that theme song from the show about the bar where everybody knows your name — that is, sometimes you wanna get away. Sometimes you are too stressed out, too tired, too sick, too sad, too… whatever and… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "Bad Santa 2"
Is the first “Bad Santa” film an intelligent, wry, commentary on the commercialization of the holiday season? Is it an insightful look at knowing the difference between the things we want and the things we need? Is it a reminder… Read More ›
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"Lass is More" Talks to Alan Eustace About Being "14 Minutes from Earth"
Meet Alan Eustace, the main subject of the Tribeca Film Festival selection, “14 Minutes to Earth.” Eustace was a Google executive who decided that he was going to ride a balloon into the stratosphere, detach himself from it, and fall… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "Allied" (2016)
Robert Zemeckis’ new live action film, “Allied,” opens with Brad Pitt’s character, Max Vatan, parachuting into French Morocco in 1942. He lands in the desert and is quickly picked up and brought to Casablanca. A spy, once in the city… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"
Quick, how much of the Harry Potter books/movies do you remember? How well steeped are you in the Deathly Hallows? Does the name Gellert Grindelwald mean anything to you? “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” the return of the… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "Life on the Line" (2016)
People have dangerous jobs and telling the story of someone with a dangerous job can make for an exciting, enlightening, dramatic film-going experience. Or, it can feel a little like pandering to that group. “Life on the Line” feels more… Read More ›
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"Lass is More" Finds Happiness with "Finding Dory"
This is, if we’re looking to label it, the year of the belated sequel. Some of these have been good, some have been bad, and many feel like they simply exist in order to prey on our nostalgia and drain… Read More ›
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