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• Movie Review: “The First Purge”

  By Josh Lasser on July 4, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The third “Purge” movie, “The Purge: Election Year,” effectively forced the franchise to head in a (or another) new direction and so it has, with the latest entry offering up the tale of “The First Purge.” Although the film is… Read More ›

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• Our Mission? Five Films in one Week

  By Josh Lasser on July 3, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  My daughter and I recently set ourselves a task — to watch all five “Mission:  Impossible” movies in a single week.  Not only did we succeed, but we got to see the evolution of this incredible film franchise. Tom Cruise’s… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Uncle Drew”

  By Josh Lasser on June 28, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The goals of a film are an essential part in determining whether it is a success.  Not every movie sets out to win an Oscar.  Not every movie sets out to make an audience understand a deep-seated societal ill.  Some… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Sicario: Day of the Soldado”

  By Josh Lasser on June 27, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  It is possible that in my preparation for reviewing “Sicario: Day of the Soldado” I made a mistake.  That is, it ought not have been an error, but it certainly hampered my enjoyment of the sequel to the 2015 version… Read More ›

• Getting Peevish Towards “Acrimony”

  By Josh Lasser on June 26, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Tyler Perry’s “Acrimony” has now hit Blu-ray shelves nationwide, and the big question may not be whether you should buy it (you shouldn’t), but whether you should remake the movie once you decide you don’t (again, you shouldn’t). In this… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”

  By Josh Lasser on June 20, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  The original “Jurassic Park” features a series of discussions weighing the benefits and problems of having created dinosaurs in our present world.  It clearly comes down against the scientific act, but it at least goes in for a discussion of… Read More ›

• “The Death of Stalin” and the 21st Century

  By Josh Lasser on June 19, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Armano Iannucci’s “The Death of Stalin” is now out on home video, and it’s a film well worth one’s time.  Not only is it an exceptionally dark, terribly funny, film about the events surrounding Stalin’s death in 1950s’ Russia, it… Read More ›

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