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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: "Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children"
Reading Ransom Riggs’ young adult book “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” it seems perfectly Tim Burton. It is a novel with some light scares, a unique location, something magical/wondrous, and a whole lot of odd things going on. The… Read More ›
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"Lass is More" Hunts for the "Wilderpeople" with "Beauty and the Beast"
What is that the want in life? I am of the belief that we regularly don’t know the answer to that until we find it. I would never have figured that my life would taken me where it has–it certainly… Read More ›
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"Lass is More" Acknowledges "Warcraft" Gets so Much Right but is Still Wrong
There are an incredible number of things that go into making a movie. Seriously, it’s a truly staggering number of things, especially for a big budget film. A movie like “Warcraft” somehow manages to succeed on nearly every level. It… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "Snowden"
The single best moment of the “Snowden” press screening came after the movie had concluded. It occurred during a Q&A which featured the film’s stars, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley; its director, Oliver Stone; and the man himself, Edward Snowden… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "Bridget Jones’s Baby"
On the face of it, “Bridget Jones’s Baby” seems like an unlikely sort of endeavor. It is another of this year’s delayed sequels (following things like “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2” and “Finding Dory,” just to name a couple)…. Read More ›
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"Lass is More" on the Brilliance of Staying Home Sick
Staying home sick is, if you’re not a parent, brilliant. Staying home sick is what made me the person I am today. Staying home sick is, I’m sorry, educational. If I hadn’t stayed home sick, I never could have watched… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "Sully"
Is the “Miracle on the Hudson” inextricably linked to 9/11? That is, is it possible to discuss Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger’s landing US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in January of 2009 without also talking about the terrorist… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "Kicks" (2016)
The tagline on the poster for Justin Tipping’s debut feature, “Kicks,” is “They aren’t just shoes.” No, the shoes in question stand for something – they stand for pride and they stand for being a man and they stand for… Read More ›
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"Lass is More" Looks at Genius in "Genius" and "Now You See Me 2"
Forgive me if I complain for a few moments about our society here, but there are certain things about which I feel strongly. Somewhere in these strong feelings is my belief that experts are experts for a reason, that intelligence… Read More ›
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"Lass is More" Opens "The Jungle Book"
What if the audience growing tired of sequels wasn’t to blame for this summer’s filmic woes? What if the sense that fewer reboots and remakes would have made everything better both at the box office AND on the screen is… Read More ›
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Lass is More Knows "The Man who Knew Infinity"
The time has come, as so many saddened children will tell you, to head back-to-school. Why, exactly, are those children sad? Clearly because they haven’t had a teacher like the legendary Jaime Escalante. This week, the Lass is More podcast… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "Kubo and the Two Strings"
Every time the lights dim in a movie theater, I hope to have a great experience. I hope that whatever it is I’m about to see somehow, in some way, raises the bar of what a film can be. Of… Read More ›
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"Lass is More" Delves Deeply with "The Dwarvenaut"
On today’s podcast we have not one, but two interviewees. Sitting down together to talk to us are Josh Bishop and Stefan Pokorny of the new documentary, “The Dwarvenaut.” Bishop is the film’s director while Pokorny is the main subject…. Read More ›
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Movie Review: "Sausage Party"
The fear I have when I go into an R-rated comedy is that the R-rating won’t be used to do more than drop in extra curses (see: Zac Efron and Robert De Niro in “Dirty Grandpa). Although that is an… Read More ›
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"Lass is More" on "Mother’s Day" and Milquetoast
When Garry Marshall’s “Mother’s Day” hit theaters this year, it was met with a deafening chorus of boos; that is, the critical reception was largely negative. Did the movie deserve such a thrashing? Is there something redeemable within it? That… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "Suicide Squad" (2016)
David Ayer’s “Suicide Squad” (2016) begins by introducing the audience to Deadshot (Will Smith) and Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie). Then, before long, we are introduced to them again. It is an awkward double-opening, giving the movie a very unfinished feel,… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "Jason Bourne"
Imagine, if you will, our hero, a superspy who just wants to learn the truth. He doesn’t know all of his own history and every time he learns something new, the world around him crumbles just a little bit more…. Read More ›
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"Lass is More" Makes a Meal of "The Lobster" with "Friends"
Long have I argued that every bit of media, no matter the form, that we consume affects our reception of anything else. Coming to DVD and Blu-ray next week is a movie which perfectly exhibits this reality — “The Lobster.”… Read More ›
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Movie Review: "Star Trek Beyond"
Many would argue that “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” is the high point of the “Star Trek” film franchise and certainly there is a case to be made for it. It is in fact the lofty heights reached… Read More ›
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"Lass is More" Reminisces About "Return of the Living Dead" and USA’s "Up All Night"
It is in our very nature for us to want things from bygone days. It would take a wiser mind than mine to know precisely where that sort of desire comes from, but I am smart enough to recognize it…. Read More ›
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