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10-Part Limited Series Begins Feb 2, 10 p.m. on FX and City Based on Jeffrey Toobin’s book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson. Many of us remember where we were the evening of June 17, 1994.  The infamous white Bronco slow chase was playing out live on television.  Many dropped …

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Dirty Grandpa isn’t for everyone, maybe anyone, but it’s certainly not for disappointed fans of Robert De Niro who at one time, as I recall over the mists of time, was considered the greatest actor of his generation.  Dirty Grandpa is for a certain group of moviegoers, and I can only guess who they …

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Directed by Michael Bay Written by Chuck Hogan (screenplay), Mitchell Zuckoff (book) Starring John Krasinski, Pablo Schreiber Rating 3/5 Michael Bay tones it down in this powerful look at the moment by moment events of Sept. 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya when a US government installation and a …

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Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson Rating 5/5 A difficult film to watch given body count and extreme events, the hateful Hateful Eight notwithstanding, The Revenant leaves us in no doubt that we are but specks of grain in the scheme of …

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