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If ‘Cry Macho’ Is Clint Eastwood’s Farewell, It’s A Charming Letdown

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Clint Eastwood movies are many things – rousing, thought-provoking, and routinely iconic. Even the worst of the worst — think “Pink Cadillac” — go all-in for our enjoyment. Until now. “Cry Macho,” starring and directed by the 91-year-old legend, flirts with a half-dozen noble conceits, maybe more. And it comes up short over and again. Eastwood plays…

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Don’t Look Up cast: Who stars in Adam McKay’s Netflix film?

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ADAM McKay is an American film director known for his work with Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, The Big Short, Vice, The Other Guys and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. McKay’s latest film Don’t Look Up is set to premier on Netflix on Friday, Dec. 24, 2021, and comes with a star-studded cast. 15…

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‘Generation 9/11’ Ditches The Gripping Story Of Fatherless Children To Focus On Vapid Political Posturing

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The grainy footage shows a little girl balancing precariously against a floral print couch. She is struggling to get her right foot into her father’s left boot, a scene that delights every father until the day he is running late to work and can’t find his shoes. The toddler need not worry about a scolding….

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Action And Charisma Can’t Make Up For Hollow Storytelling In Disney’s ‘Jungle Cruise’

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$362 million—that’s how much Walt Disney Studios reportedly spent on summer blockbuster hopeful “Jungle Cruise,” a supernatural-tinged adventure about a scientist and riverboat captain sailing down the Amazon in pursuit of a mystical item that will bring healing and restore zombie-like humans to life. If it sounds like a highlight reel for Disney’s “Pirates” franchise,…

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Why Do Democrats Support Sending U.S. Taxpayer Dollars To Help Hollywood Spread Chinese Communist Propaganda?

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Democrats’ much anticipated China bill, coined the Eagle Act, was an opportunity to stop the onslaught of Communist Chinese Party (CCP) propaganda spreading throughout American corporate media. Yet Democrats on the Foreign Affairs Committee threw this opportunity down the drain. By voting down my amendment to the Eagle Act, Democrats opted to continue sending taxpayer…

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How Hollywood Turned Captain America Into A Placeless Globalist

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Captain America is today one of the most popular superheroes. More importantly, he has been the embodiment of U.S. values and a symbol of American exceptionalism. Marvel Studios wisely decided to put him in the center of its cinematic universe. In 2011, the movie “Captain America: The First Avenger” was released, and it became a starting point…

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Heartbreaking Anthony Bourdain Documentary ‘Roadrunner’ Shows Success Can’t Cure Loneliness

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I was — am — a huge Anthony Bourdain fan. I have all his books, and I’ve seen every episode of all his shows. As detailed in “Roadrunner,” a new documentary helmed by Morgan Neville, Bourdain shot to stardom almost overnight. He went from working in a hot and crowded kitchen one day, to being…

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Netflix’s ‘America: The Motion Picture’ Is As Out-Of-Touch As King George III

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Imagine a multiverse where fantastic fictionalizations of all American historical figures exist simultaneously. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are childhood friends. Benedict Arnold is a werewolf. Sam Adams is a beer-swilling fraternity president ready to found an army of bros. Thomas Edison is a Chinese woman who veers closer to Tony Stark than the inventor…

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Even Though It Was Done Last Year, ‘A Quiet Place II’ Is A Post-Pandemic Movie

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Warning: Spoilers ahead. “A Quiet Place II” premiered in New York City on March 8, 2020. Shortly thereafter, the world shut down and it didn’t see a full theatrical release until May 28 of this year. While the movie’s plot, a continuation of 2018’s “A Quiet Place,” aligns neatly with what was happening in real…

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‘The Woman In The Window’ Shows Joe Wright Is No Hitchcock

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Can a good story, talented team, and compelling themes coalesce into a bad movie? Surprisingly, yes, as with Netflix’s thriller “The Woman in the Window.”  An agoraphobic, recently separated woman named Anna (Amy Adams) spends her days spying on neighbors through a camera lens and her nights in the cool glow of classic Hollywood movies….

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The Real Horror In Hulu’s ‘False Positive’ Is Abortion

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Hulu’s latest horror movie, “False Positive,” is a gory disappointment whose real terror comes from the film’s treatment of abortion. In the film, Lucy (Ilana Glazer, who also wrote and produced) and her husband Adrian (Justin Theroux) have been struggling to start a family for two years, when they reach out to a fertility doctor…

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Take A Family Trip To Italy With ‘Luca,’ Another Pixar Winner Celebrating Friendship

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On a hot summer day, two middle-school boys meet while scavenging for “treasures” like bike gears and handlebars. They chat about (what else?) how cool scooters are, combine their found spare parts, and get to work on their own makeshift motorless Vespa. Naturally, they test out their rough-and-ready vehicle by taking turns crashing it down…

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The Many Saints of Newark: Who’s in the cast of the Sopranos prequel?

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THE Many Saints of Newark is set to be released soon. The movie takes a look at the formative years of Tony Soprano, a New Jersey gangster. 11 The movie The Many Saints of Newark is set to be released in late 2021Credit: Getty Who’s in the cast of the Sopranos prequel? The film has…

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Lin-Manuel Miranda Apologizes For Not Casting ‘Darker Skinned’ Black And Latino Actors In Latest Musical

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Will anything ever be enough to satisfy the woke mob? One might think that a cast filled with non-white actors might win them over. Or, maybe a movie celebrating immigrants and Latino culture and identity could excite? But of course not, that would make far too much sense. Movie-musical “In the Heights” is under fire…

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Disney’s ‘Cruella’ Tells Girls To Prioritize Vengeance Over Love

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In classic superhero origin story form, the titular character for the new Disney film “Cruella,” played by Emma Stone, begins her tale as an orphan, with the added guilt of having inadvertently caused her mother’s death. With no family in the world, she ends up on her own, with some petty thieves and her dog….

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