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‘Aladdin’ looks exceptional, but has some dry spells

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Running Time: 128 minutes

Disney certainly has gone all in with live-action remakes of its animated titles. Just two months ago we got the new Dumbo, and this week Aladdin is the feature being updated. This effort follows the original far more closely, which is both a benefit and a curse. The...

‘Booksmart’ provides enough laughs to earn a good grade

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Running Time: 102 minutes

Over the past thirty years, there have been more than a few coming-of-age teen comedies. The latest arrival is Booksmart, another tale of young people spending their graduation night on the town and attempting to find some kind of closure for this chapter of their lives. This wild comedy isn’t perfect and follows some of the typical tropes, but does provide a good helping of laughs, thanks to efforts of its two leads and supporting cast.

Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) and Molly (Beanie Feldstein) are stellar students at their high school, excited to start the next chapter in their lives, but are less successful at navigating social...

DVD/Blu-ray Roundup for May 24, 2019

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Welcome to another look at new releases arriving on Blu-ray and DVD. It’s a busy edition with a wide variety of discs hitting store shelves. So if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these titles a try.

Big New Releases!

Big Brother - Released in Hong Kong as Dai si hing, this foreign-language action/comedy follows an ex-soldier turned schoolteacher who is tasked with instructing a group of delinquent kids. When a nasty entrepreneur decides he’d like to tear down the institute, the hero and kids team up to stop the hostile takeover. The movie was successful in its homeland. While there aren’t a lot of notices for it in this part...

Action scenes are the highlight of ‘John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum’

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Running Time: 130 minutes

2014 offered a real surprise in the form of the exceptional action flick, John Wick. The hits kept coming in the 2017 sequel, which attempted to explore the inner workings of a criminal underworld and its various factions. The action continues in John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, which pits the hero against, well, just about everybody. Viewers may suffer a bit from fatigue and this title’s inability to tie up loose ends, but the fight choreography on display is phenomenal and should please genre fans.

As the film begins, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) finds himself, not only being excommunicated from the official, umm, well...

DVD/Blu-ray Roundup for May 17, 2019

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Wow, it’s another busy edition of new release highlights on Blu-ray and DVD. In fact, there’s something interesting from just about every genre imaginable this time out. So if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these titles a try!

Big New Releases!

American Exit - Based loosely on a true-story, this film involves a cash-strapped father who decides to steal a million-dollar painting from an art dealer who has ties to criminal organizations. The lead heads out to the desert with his rebellious teenage son in order to avoid detection and try to repair their relationship. However, the pair soon find themselves in the middle of...

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