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Just Getting Started (2017) – Review

February 5, 2021January 19, 2021 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2017, Elizabeth Ashley, George Wallace, Glenne Headly, Graham Beckel, Jane Seymour, Joe Pantoliano, Just Getting Started, morgan freeman, Rene Russo., ron shelton, Sheryl Lee Ralph, tommy lee jones

Just Getting Started is a big disappointment from a group of very talented individuals. Ron Shelton (Bull Durham, White Men

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The Poison Rose (2019) – Review

May 13, 2019June 26, 2019 Jason Rugaard 2 Comments 2019, brendan fraser, Ella Bleu Travolta, Famke Janssen, Kat Graham, morgan freeman, Peter Stormare, robert patrick, The Poison Rose

“We live in a world that’s full of risk.” One character utters in the new John Travolta thriller The Poison

Drama Reviews

Clean and Sober (1988) – Review

May 7, 2017May 15, 2017 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1988, Brian Benben, Claudia Christian, Clean and Sober, Glenn Gordon Caron, Kathy Baker, m.emmet walsh, Michael Keaton, morgan freeman, Tate Donovan

Today it’s considered common consensus amongst moviegoers that Michael Keaton is a “serious” actor. That wasn’t the case back in

Drama Featured Reviews

Johnny Handsome (1989) – Review

April 28, 2017June 12, 2017 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1989, Elizabeth McGovern, Ellen Barkin, forest whitaker, Johnny Handsome, Lance Henriksen, mickey rourke, morgan freeman, Scott Wilson, walter hill

Walter Hill’s screen adaptation of the novel “The Three Worlds of Johnny Handsome” is a violent and moody throwback to

Action Featured Reviews

Chain Reaction (1996) – Review

March 21, 2017March 21, 2017 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1996, andrew davis, brian cox, Chain Reaction, Fred Ward, keanu reeves, kevin dunn, morgan freeman, rachel weisz

Chain Reaction is one of the dullest action movies in memory. Teaming the director of The Fugitive with the star

Comedy Featured Reviews

Ted 2 (2015) – Review

July 20, 2015July 20, 2015 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2015, amanda seyfried, Giovanni Ribisi, Jessica Barth, John Slattery, mark wahlberg, morgan freeman, Seth MacFarlane, Ted 2

The foul-mouthed, pot-smoking, Boston-accented teddy bear is back in the follow-up to the original smash hit. The second trip to

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Transcendence (2014) – Review

June 22, 2015 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2014, Cillian Murphy, cole hauser, Johnny Depp, Kate Mara, morgan freeman, Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall, transcendence

Transcendence marks the directing debut of longtime cinematographer and frequent Christopher Nolan collaborator, Wally Pfister. This is of note not

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Oblivion (2013) – Review

June 11, 2015 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2013, joseph kosinski, morgan freeman, oblivion, Olga Kurylenko, Tom Courtenay, tom cruise, tron

There is so much I liked about Tom Cruise’s sci-fi adventure film Oblivion that I’m tempted to recommend it. The

Action Drama Featured Reviews

Last Knights (2015) – Review

April 3, 2015April 3, 2015 Jason Rugaard 1 Comment 2015, Aksel Hennie, Cliff Curtis, Clive Owen, Kazuaki Kiriya, Last Knights, morgan freeman

Last Knight isn’t half bad, but its also half the movie it probably could have been. Commander Raiden (Clive Owen)

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Lucy (2014) – Review

October 29, 2014 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2014, Amr Waked, Choi Min-sik, luc besson, Lucy, morgan freeman, scarlett johansson

Luc Besson’s prolific mind has concocted another genre bender with Lucy, a glossy action pic with human evolution on the

Comedy Family Reviews

The Lego Movie (2014) – Review

September 25, 2014 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2014, batman, Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, liam neeson, morgan freeman, Phil Lord, star wars, The Indian in the Cupboard, The Lego Movie, The Neverending Story, The Sandlot, Will Arnett, will ferrell

My exposure to the Lego brand is limited to some imaginative tinkering during my pre-pubescent years. In the time since,

Action Drama Reviews

Now You See Me (2013) – Review

July 16, 2013July 16, 2013 Jason Rugaard 1 Comment 2013, common, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher, jesse eisenberg, louis leterrier, mark ruffalo, michael caine, morgan freeman, now you see me, woody harrelson

Now You See Me is a silly magic-themed heist picture that works in the moment but evaporates on further inspection.

Action Featured Reviews

Olympus Has Fallen (2013) – Review

March 25, 2013March 25, 2013 Jason Rugaard 1 Comment 2013, aaron eckhart, Air Force One, angela bassett, antoine fuqua, Ashley Judd, cole hauser, die hard, Dylan McDermott, gerard butler, Melissa Leo, morgan freeman, olympus has fallen, Rick Yune, Robert Forster, Under Siege

There is an unmistakable B-movie exuberance to the guilty pleasure flick Olympus has Fallen that can’t be denied. It may

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5 Oscar Winners Currently Appearing in Direct-to-DVD Movies

December 28, 2012February 20, 2013 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments adrian brody, best of list, Cuba Gooding Jr., forest whitaker, Halle Berry, morgan freeman, oscars

Over the last decade each of the actors/actresses on this list have won an Oscar for a major role, in

Action Featured Reviews

The Dark Knight Rises (2012) – Review

July 19, 2012October 22, 2012 Trevor Anderson 3 Comments 2012, Anne Hathaway, batman, Christian Bale, christopher nolan, dark knight, Gary Oldman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, michael caine, morgan freeman, The Dark Knight, the dark knight rises, Tom Hardy

The Dark Knight Rises has Bruce Wayne retired from being the vigilante super-hero Batman. His body beaten from years of

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