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Forence Foster Jenkins Meryl Streep straps on a fat suit and untrains her usually gorgeous singing voice to play the 1940’s singing sensation that rocked Manhattan, Florence Foster Jenkins. The late blooming performer sounded like a cat with its tail under a rocking chair; her terribly off-key, …
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Suicide Squad and Some Other Movies Opening August 6th Suicide Squad is the latest D.C. Comics entry meant to unseat Marvel as top purveyor of cinema-bustin’ super heroes and villains. Good try but not quite enough. It looks hideously expensive and as though it was put together by committee, much …
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JASON BOURNE Visually, Jason Bourne is a mess. The reteaming of Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass in a new chapter of the beloved action franchise is incredibly hard to watch. Shot digitally in extreme closeup for most of its two hour running time, we weave and jolt in and out of endless action scenes …
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IT'S AB FAB AT THE MOVIES! If you don’t like Absolutely Fabulous, we can’t be BFFs. We speak different languages, sweetie. If you do, I have great news. The girls are back. Absolutely Fabulous: the Movie is unleashed; its twenty years on and thankfully, little has changed. It still has that je …
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GHOSTBUSTERS Let’s ignore the organised sexist haters who’ve flooded the internet with false bad reviews in an anti-female film campaign. The all-female Ghostbusters (dir. Paul Feig) takes its jump and nails it. It acquiesces to no man, no men, no one for that matter. Melissa McCarthy, Kristin …
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