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“Dumbo” is a beloved classic, but it was probably the most problematic in regards to Disney’s relentless attempt to create live-action remakes of all of their animated films.
Made in 1941, it is certainly a movie of its time. It’s barely an hour long, it features a pack ... [More]
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Making a movie is hard. You need a lot of people putting in a lot of hours and there aren’t many guarantees of success.
There are a lot of reasons for a movie to be bad from laziness to sloppiness to shameless money grabs. Those movies are easy to kick.
Sometimes a movie is bad not b... [More]
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There’s an old Pogo comic strip that features the famous line “We have seen the enemy, and he is us.”
That sentiment is at the heart of the new horror film “Us” from writer/director Jordan Peele, a nearly-successful follow up to his brilliant debut “Get Out.&... [More]
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If you’ve ever been at a sporting event and seen a spectator run onto the field, it generates complicated response.
Clearly, the guy (it’s almost always a guy) shouldn’t be out there and he’s delaying the event you’ve paid good money to see in the first place. But,... [More]
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“And the hits just keep on coming!”
That old Top 40 radio tagline used to be a promise of familiar, catchy tunes, but it also could be applied to “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.”
The story of the struggles of and successes of the 1960s hit songwriter turned 197... [More]
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So I, along with 76,000 of my closest friends, took in a Garth Brooks concert on March 9, at the (renamed for 48 hours) Garth Brooks Dome at America's Center, in downtown St. Louis.
This is an insane amount of people to be in one place for anything, but there we were and Garth was right in the ... [More]
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Even though we are officially oversaturated with superhero movies, Marvel is giving us some spandex-clad saviors that at least look different than all the other ones out there.
In fact, it’s kind of amazing even though we can’t go five minutes without a new superhero movie coming ou... [More]
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The “How to Train Your Dragon” movie franchise has staked out its own distinctive corner of family entertainment over the past decade. It was quirky with a sarcastic tone, but also landed strong emotional beats and took big chances, like killing off major characters.
Now that we&rsq... [More]
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Nobody really saw “The Lego Movie” coming.
In what at first glance appeared to be shameless corporate cross-promotion designed to get kids to buy more toys, instead turned out to be a clever, heartwarming pop-culture mashup extolling the power of imagination with a super-catchy them... [More]