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Preview: Bleed For This
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pveugelaers
Bleed for This (2016) is an awkward title that does not quite catch on. The title does not catch on, but the subject does. This is another boxing film, and as far as I can remember, is the year’s boxing movie. Southpaw and Creed have come and gone from the previous year. It is also…
Preview: Aliens coming with “Arrival”
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pveugelaers
Trying to understand aliens, in Arrival (2016), coming to movie theaters this week. There was another film called The Arrival in 1996. The Arrival had similar premise to Arrival, but turned out there was a twist. The Arrival starred Charlie Sheen in scientist mode. Arrival has Amy Adams in scientist mode. Arrival’s premise is straightforward.…
Commentary: Race
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pveugelaers
The song playing over the end credits of track and field film Race (2016) has a line “let the best man win”. Race is a straightforwardly told Jessie Owens story about the best man at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It co-stars Jason Sudeikis (Angry Birds) as Owens’ coach Larry Snyder and a young Jessie Owens…
Flashback: hero in the temple of doom
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pveugelaers
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was a summer hit, but it is more than a pop corn movie. The summer of 1984 at the movies was about Gremlins, Ghostbusters and Indiana Jones 2, otherwise known as Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Darker Director of Temple of Doom, Steven Spielberg, admits in…
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