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From the moment ‘Prisoners’, directed by Denis Villeneuve (‘Incendies’) began, I knew I was about to see a film that was really, really good. And I was not disappointed. In fact, by the time the end-credits rolled, I was actually feeling ‘creeped-out (in a good way, if that’s possible) and that feeling stayed with me […]
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‘Rush’ directed by two time Academy Award winner Ron Howard (‘A Beautiful Mind’, ‘Frost/Nixon’) is supposedly, based on a true story. I say, supposedly because, like many ‘true stories’, there’s a great deal of ‘not so true’ stuff thrown into the mix. ‘Rush’ written by Peter Morgan (‘Frost/Nixon) depicts the intense rivalry between two Formula […]
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Meet the Manzoni’s. A family no different than your average family…Mother, Father, Two Kids, except…they are in the Witness Protection Program and they like to beat people up, or in the case of Daddy Manzoni, kill people… Giovanni Manzoni (Robert DeNiro) was a big time mob boss, who like many big time mob bosses, wound […]
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For those of you who think your family has problems, wait until you meet the Lamberts. We were first introduced to them a few years back in the horror film, ‘Insidious’ and things have not gotten any better for them. To refresh everyone’s memory or in case you missed the first film…Here’s a brief synopsis […]
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We’re all familiar with the quote, ‘You can never go home again’ . Well, that’s not exactly true…You can go home again, but it may not be the way you remembered it. That is certainly the case in ‘The World’s End’ directed by Edgar Wright. Wright wrote the script with Simon Pegg, who also stars […]
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‘The Butler’ written by Danny Strong, was inspired by Wil Haygood’s article in The Washington Post, entitled ‘A Butler Well Served By This Election’. Haygood served as a butler through 8 presidential administrations. In this film, we follow the journey of Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker) who as a boy in 1923, picked cotton on a […]
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So what happens when a pot dealer (Jason Sudeikis), a stripper (Jennifer Anniston) a runaway (Emma Roberts) and a virgin (Will Poulter) pretend to be an ‘All American Family’ go on a marijuana run to Mexico in a very big R. V.? Well, in ‘We’re The Millers’ directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, you have an […]
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Neill Blomkamp, writer and director of the critically acclaimed, ‘District 9’, once again brings us a thought-provoking, sci-fi fantasy action film. ‘Elysium’ starring Matt Damon takes place in the year 2154. Earth is polluted, overpopulated and crime ridden. The rich have long ago abandoned the planet for Elysium, an orbital space station, a 19 minute […]
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In this episode of The JCast Journey, host Darone Ruskay talks about a new podcast and blog on the network called “This Week’s Torah”. The concept behind this feed is an archive of podcasts and blogs that relate to the coming weeks torah portion. Just because the content may be old, this does not mean […]
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I really feel for The Wolverine, aka Logan (Hugh Jackman). The poor guy can’t die, doesn’t have any cool people to hang out with, and he’s suffering from major depression… On top of that, he’s still in love with his ex girlfriend (Famke Janssen. Even though he killed her, their relationship seems to be going […]
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