I was expecting Ad Astra to be a thrilling adventure film — which it is — but only to a point. About three-fourths of the way in the brisk story slows to a crawl and turns into a big metaphor about father and son relationships, which is fine but it felt sort of like a bait a switch.
“Brittany Runs a Marathon” is more of a metaphor for bettering one’s life.
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Here is all you need to know about a movie you never heard and why it is worth your time to see it.
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Audiences’ patience with remakes appear to be waning as of late which isn’t really surprising given how difficult it is to find a movie with a new and original storyline. Just a couple of years ago, Disney started creating live action versions of their classic animated hits. It appears that the novelty of these projects is starting to wear off
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After creating what many critics have called one of the best film trilogies ever made, why would Disney/Pixar go about creating yet another chapter to the Toy Story franchise? While it may appear to be a simple cash grab, it seems like the animation crew had one more story to tell after all and boy am I glad that they
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The sci-fi/cop/comedy franchise known as Men in Black has always traveled a wavy road. The original which came out in 1997 and starred Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith got huge accolades despite that it included a lot of gross or disturbing physical gags. When the second chapter arrived in 2002, the gross humor got worse and so did the
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Will you like X-Men: Dark Phoenix? I guess that depends on what you are expecting to get out of it. Overall, the reception from various X-Men movies that have been released since 2000 have been all over the board from “really good” to “what the heck just happened?” Just like the first go around of X-Men stories, the “first class”
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One of the best things about Disney reimagining their great animated movies into live action films is seeing how each of the writers and directors put their unique spin on the stories. It’s got to be a scary thing to try to reproduce a Disney classic in a new, fresh way that fans will accept. Sometimes it’s done well, like
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