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Daily Archives: December 14, 2024
Movie Review: Once more to Middle Earth, before “The Lord of the Rings,” “The War of the Rohirrim”
“The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” is a dull placeholder pic rolled out by Warner Animation to keep the company’s intellectual property rights to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth current in the public’s mind. Streaming series aside, … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: A comedy about an attempted insurance claim killing — “Trigger Happy”
Not a name in the cast — Elsha Kim, Tyler Poelle, Zak Steiner et al. But the tone seems…relatable. Jan. 14.
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Movie Review: Krap on a kracker? “Kraven the Hunter”
Aaron Taylor-Johnson gets gym-jacked one more time, Russell Crowe auditions for a future Ernest Hemingway at his burliest bio-pic and Alessadro Nivolla trots out the silliest supervillain voice since John Malkovich in “Rounders” for “Kraven the Hunter,” a misguided mess … Continue reading
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Netflixable? A TSA agent is blackmailed into letting somebody’s “Carry-On” slide by
The “talking villain” is played by Jason Bateman. So as you might guess, he damned near talks us all to death. The scenario is within the realm of possibilities, but juiced and dragged-out with so many eye-rolling “Hollywood” twists that … Continue reading
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Tagged action, jason-bateman, movie-review, neeson, netflix, taron-egerton, thriller, tsa
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BOX OFFICE: “Wicked” wins week, “Moana 2” owns another weekend, “Kraven” “worst Marvel opening,” anime “Lord of the Rings” bombs
A new superhero movie from the broader “Spider-Man” universe is not luring in a lot of fans on its opening weekend. And the filmed and TV’d to death “Lord of the Rings” has gone about as far as Warner Bros/New … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, box-office, film, kraven, lord-of-the-rings, moana, movies, rohirrim
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