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• “Saturday Night Fever” Giveaway!

  By Josh Lasser on May 2, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Many years ago, John Travolta strutted his stuff on the dance floor.  Was he sick?  We don’t think so, but he was certainly diagnosed as having “Saturday Night Fever,” and now you can too!  Well, the honest truth is that you… Read More ›

• “Lass is More” Looks at the Physicality of Physical Media

  By Josh Lasser on April 25, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The list of things which I don’t like in this world is a long one and somewhere on it is when folks insist that the old way of doing things is better when it’s obviously not. But what of the… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The Lost City of Z”

  By Josh Lasser on April 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Movies like “The Right Stuff” make people want to be astronauts. Movies like “Superman” make people want to be superheroes. Movies like “The Lost City of Z” make people want to be explorers. This is not to say, however, that James… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The Fate of the Furious”

  By Josh Lasser on April 12, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Suspension of disbelief. Some movies require it more than others. The entire “Fast and Furious” franchise asks that viewers have oodles upon oodles of it, and the eighth installment in the series, “The Fate of the Furious,” is certainly no… Read More ›

• “Lass is More” on “Monster Trucks” — Wait, it’s About What?

  By Josh Lasser on April 11, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  You know you’ve said the words before when someone has described the concept of a movie or a TV show or a book.  You haven’t been able to help yourself, you heard the idea and your only possible response was… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer”

  By Josh Lasser on April 10, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  If you were to ask me how Norman Oppenheimer, Richard Gere’s character in “Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer,” makes money, I would admit to not having any sort of an idea. The movie… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Colossal” (2017)

  By Josh Lasser on April 6, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  If you have seen the trailer for “Colossal,” you know what to expect – Anne Hathaway’s character, who is living in the United States, is somehow also a giant monster attacking Seoul, South Korea. And, while that is true, it… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Your Name.”

  By Josh Lasser on April 5, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Body-swapping movies are a genre all their own and this weekend in the U.S. we’re getting an animated body-swapping feature from Japan, “Your Name.” Directed by Makoto Shinkai, “Your Name.” is the story of two high schoolers, Mitsuha (Mone Kamishiraishi)… Read More ›

• “Lass is More” Interrogates “Rogue One” and Launches an “Office Christmas Party” Giveaway

  By Josh Lasser on April 4, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  And so, here we are, another Tuesday is upon us and that means another “Lass is More.” This week’s podcast has two important, and distinct, sections.  First up, we’re launching a new giveaway!  This one is for “Office Christmas Party,”… Read More ›

• “Office Christmas Party” Party Like It’s 5pm on a Friday Giveaway!

  By Josh Lasser on April 4, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Will wonders never cease?  Last week, as you may recall, we launch our second giveaway (we’re giving away a couple of blu-ray copies of Martin Scorsese’s “Silence“).  Now, today, merely one week later, we’re launching our third!  Oh yes, it’s… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Mine” (2017)

  By Josh Lasser on April 3, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  For a significant portion of the new movie “Mine,” a U.S. soldier stands in the desert with one foot on a landmine. The soldier, Mike (Armie Hammer), is forced to wait 52 hours with his foot on the mine, unable… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The Boss Baby”

  By Josh Lasser on March 29, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Some moments in “The Boss Baby” are not just wise, they are brilliant. These moments, and they tend to be frontloaded, offer up a perfect look at just what it’s like to have a baby join a family, of the… Read More ›

• “Lass is More” on “Ghost in the Shell” and a “Silence” Giveaway

  By Josh Lasser on March 28, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  The new version of “Ghost in the Shell” opens on the big screen this week and that means that the 1995 animated film is getting (another) blu-ray release.  That version is really quite an interesting film, and well worth watching…. Read More ›

• Martin Scorsese’s “Silence” Blu-ray Giveaway!

  By Josh Lasser on March 28, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Martin Scorsese returned to the big screen last year with “Silence,” a movie the director has been trying to make for years… decades really. Clearly, he finally got it done and the end product stars Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield, and… Read More ›

• “Lass is More” Looks at “Julieta” and “20th Century Women”

  By Josh Lasser on March 24, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Yes, it’s a second podcast episode in a single week, and for this bonus episode we’re looking at “Julieta” and “20th Century Women.”  I have to say that I prefer the former to the latter, but both movies have a… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Power Rangers”

  By Josh Lasser on March 23, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  It is spoiling absolutely nothing to say that at the end of “Power Rangers,” the big screen update of the long-running television series, the group of five teens at the story’s center will indeed become Power Rangers. That is, after… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Prevenge”

  By Josh Lasser on March 21, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  What if you were pregnant and your unborn child could talk to you, not just in the sense of having a craving, but rather offering up ideas and concepts in fully formed sentences (telepathically)? The very concept is unnerving. Now,… Read More ›

• “Lass is More” on Trying to Describe”Elle” and “Sing”

  By Josh Lasser on March 20, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  There are some movies which are relatively easy to encapsulate in a single sentence.  Other films defy our attempts to succinctly describe them. This week, we look at two movies from 2016, “Elle” and Sing,” and attempt to describe each… Read More ›

• “Lass is More” Talks “Fences”

  By Josh Lasser on March 14, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  As you may recall, we are giving away a couple of blu-ray copies of “Fences,” be sure to enter the contest and to share the info with others!  We tell you this here because “Fences” is the subject of today’s… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Deidra & Laney Rob a Train”

  By Josh Lasser on March 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  As the title of the movie, “Deidra & Laney Rob a Train,” indicates, two of the characters in this movie, Deidra and Laney specifically, rob a train. Actually, if you really want to get technical about it, teenage sisters Deidra… Read More ›

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