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Borderline (1980) – Review

February 18, 2021 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1980, Bert Remsen, Borderline, Bruno Kirby, charles bronson, ed harris, Jerrold Freedman, Michael Lerner, Wilford Brimley

Borderline contains another monolithic performance from the workhorse that is Charles Bronson. By the dawn of the 1980s, Bronson’s star

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Breast Men (1997) – Review

February 15, 2021January 31, 2021 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1997, Breast Men, Chris Cooper, David Schwimmer, Emily Procter, HBO Films, Lawrence O'Neil, Matt Frewer, Terry O'Quinn

Breast Men tells the true story of two Texas plastic surgeons who performed and perfected the breast augmentation procedure. It’s

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Starman (1984) – Review

February 9, 2021January 25, 2021 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1984, Charles Martin Smith, jeff bridges, john carpenter, Karen Allen, Richard Jaeckel, Starman

Director John Carpenter turns away from the horror genre that made him famous and instead focuses his immense talent on

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Mad City (1997) – Review

January 15, 2021December 24, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1997, Alan Alda, Blythe Danner, Costa-Gavras, dustin hoffman, john travolta, Mad City, Mia Kirshner, Robert Prosky, Ted Levine

Mad City has a great premise. And for the film’s first 30 minutes it’s gripping. Unfortunately, it’s one of those

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Glass (2019) – Review

January 14, 2021December 24, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2019, Anya Taylor-Joy, bruce willis, Glass, james mcavoy, M. Night Shyamalan, samuel l. jackson, Sarah Paulson

M. Night Shyamalan’s impromptu trilogy (spanning 19 years) comes to a satisfying conclusion in Glass. The story that began with

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The Pallbearer (1996) – Review

January 11, 2021December 26, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1996, Barbara Hershey, Bitty Schram, Carol Kane, David Schwimmer, gwyneth paltrow, matt reeves, Michael Rapaport, The Pallbearer, Toni Collette

The Pallbearer has a similar charm (and theme) as the seminal 1967 film The Graduate. That film made Dustin Hoffman

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Speed Kills (2018) – Review

January 7, 2021December 24, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2018, james remar, john travolta, Jordi Mollà, Katheryn Winnick, Kellan Lutz, Matthew Modine, Speed Kills

Speed Kills contains a committed performance by John Travolta that is trapped in a woefully undercooked movie. This instantly forgettable

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The Way Back (2020) – Review

January 4, 2021December 26, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2020, Al Madrigal, Ben Affleck, Gavin O'Connor, Janina Gavankar, Michaela Watkins, The Way Back

Gavin O’Connor’s directorial efforts resonate with me in the same manner that Sidney Lumet’s best work does. Both filmmakers have

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Serenity (2019) – Review

January 1, 2021November 22, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2019, Anne Hathaway, Diane Lane, Djimon Hounsou, Jason Clarke, Matthew McConaughey, serenity, Steven Knight

In an era when marketing gives away nearly every plot detail to the moviegoing public, Serenity holds its secrets close

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Just Mercy (2019) – Review

June 1, 2020June 16, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2019, Brie Larson, Destin Daniel Cretton, jamie foxx, Just Mercy, Michael B. Jordan, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Rafe Spall, Tim Blake Nelson

Just Mercy further proves that Michael B. Jordan is the most charismatic actor of his generation. The gifted actor heads

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One Eight Seven (1997) – Review

May 6, 2020May 8, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1997, Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez, John Heard, Kelly Rowan, One Eight Seven, Stars: Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson is a teacher pushed over the edge by a group of unruly gang-banger students at a rundown

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The Object of My Affection (1998) – Review

April 17, 2020May 18, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1998, Alan Alda, Allison Janney, jennifer aniston, John Pankow, Nicholas Hytner, Nigel Hawthorne, paul rudd, Steve Zahn, The Object of My Affection, tim daly

Paul Rudd has such a warm on-screen presence that, during The Object of My Affection, I found myself inadvertently rooting

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The Kitchen (2019) – Review

April 6, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2019, Andrea Berloff, Bill Camp, Brian d'Arcy James, common, Domhnall Gleeson, Elisabeth Moss, James Badge Dale, Margo Martindale, melissa mccarthy, The Kitchen, Tiffany Haddish

The Kitchen is a movie that desperately wants to be taken seriously and it’s almost impossible to do so. There

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True Crime (1999) – Review

March 8, 2020June 28, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1999, Bernard Hill, clint eastwood, Denis Leary, Diane Venora, Isaiah Washington, james woods, LisaGay Hamilton, Michael McKean, True Crime

Clint Eastwood strikes out with the thriller True Crime, a maudlin adaptation of the bestselling novel. Despite a handful of

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Rosewood (1997) – Review

March 7, 2020June 16, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1997, Bruce McGill, Catherine Kellner, don cheadle, Elise Neal, Esther Rolle, John Singleton, Jon Voight, Loren Dean, Rosewood, ving rhames

Rosewood is the most overlooked film in the career of late filmmaker John Singleton. After establishing himself with his Academy

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