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Daily Archives: July 25, 2014
Movie Review: Fluffy is a lot less fluffy, and preaching about it in “The Fluffy Movie”
A plus-sized stand-up gets by on very thin material in “The Fluffy Movie,” a concert film built on the comic stylings of Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias. His set-ups take forever, his transitions between stories are natural, but drag on forever. And … Continue reading
Weekend Movies: “Hercules” earns better reviews than Woody Allen or Rob Reiner
So for starters, no WAY Brett Ratner’s generic, dull and listless “Hercules” (alas, the same can be said for “The Artist Formerly Known as The Rock”) is better than the other popcorn picture opening this last weekend of July — … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Dwayne Johnson goes Greek as “Hercules”
It was a bra-less age, when men wore skirts of leather, planted their feet and commenced to speechifying. About heroic deeds, which they made up, or at least exaggerated — in Greek. This is the world of “Hercules,” a B-movie … Continue reading
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