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Movie Review: RED ONE
Did you enjoy the Will Smith/Tommy Lee Jones misfit buddy action/comedy flick MEN IN BLACK that was released way back in 1997? If so,...
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Dec 14, 20242 min read
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MOANA 2
The 2016 Animated film MOANA was a pleasant surprise, coming in under the radar and scoring a hit with good music by HAMILTON composer...
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Dec 12, 20242 min read
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Movie Review: WICKED (Part One
It is a rare feeling for me at the end of movie where my first inclination is that I want to watch the film again. But such is the case...
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Nov 26, 20242 min read
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Movie Review: GLADIATOR II
They sure don’t make films like this much anymore. Ridley Scott’s GLADIATOR II is a throw back to the “Sword and Sandals” flicks of the...
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Nov 24, 20243 min read
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Director's Series: Stanley Kubrick's FULL METAL JACKET (1987)
The 1980’s brought an onslaught of films depicting…and commenting on…the Vietnam War - and Stanley Kubrick wanted to make his own...
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Nov 16, 20243 min read
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Movie Review: CONCLAVE
And now…a film for adults. Based on Robert Harris’ 2016 novel, CONCLAVE takes the viewers inside the Vatican during the College of...
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Oct 30, 20242 min read
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Movie Review - VENOM: THE LAST DANCE
The BankofMarquis is one of the few that has seen all 3 VENOM films in the Cineplex, so can safely and authentically state: VENOM: THE...
bankofmarquis
Oct 28, 20242 min read
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Director's Series: Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING (film #9 in a series of reviews of the films of Stanley Kubrick)
Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film version of the Stephen King novel THE SHINING is a masterpiece. And…it just gets better and richer with every...
bankofmarquis
Oct 22, 20242 min read
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Streaming Recommendation - ALIEN: ROMULUS
The Alien franchise has taken some hits lately as the Ridley Scott prequels to his famed 1979 film - PROMETHEUS and ALIEN: COVENANT -...
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Oct 18, 20242 min read
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Movie Review - JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX
Back in 2019, Writer/Director Todd Phillips teamed with actor Joaquin Phoenix to create an interesting, dark, multi-level character named...
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Oct 5, 20243 min read
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Director's Series: Stanley Kubrick's BARRY LYNDON (1975)
After he finished his Science Fiction masterpiece, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY in 1967 (the film would be released in 1968), auteur Director...
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Sep 20, 20243 min read
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Movie Review: BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE
“Nostalgia film” is a problematic genre. For every successful nostalgia film, like TOP GUN: MAVERICK a few years ago, the cineplex is...
bankofmarquis
Sep 11, 20242 min read
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Movie Review: DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE
Let’s cut right to it. If you were amused by the first 2 Deadpool films, then you are looking forward to DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE. If you...
bankofmarquis
Jul 30, 20242 min read
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Director's Series: Stanly Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
There have been many words that have been used to describe Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 study of youth gone wild in a dystopian future, A...
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Jul 17, 20243 min read
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Streaming Recommendation: HIT MAN
Netflix has not done their new Richard Linklater Directed/Glen Powell starring movie HIT MAN any favors as it is mis-marketed and upon...
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Jul 7, 20242 min read
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Movie Review - A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE
The prequel film, A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE follows an interesting trend in recent “monster movies”. Much like GODZILLA MINUS ONE and...
bankofmarquis
Jun 29, 20242 min read
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Director's Series: Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Of all the films that Stanley Kubrick has Directed, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY is the one that I have seen the most (by far). Why is that? ...
bankofmarquis
Jun 27, 20243 min read
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Movie Review: INSIDE OUT 2
One of the tricks of making a succesful sequel is to capture the essence of what worked in the first film and then expand upon that to...
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Jun 22, 20241 min read
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Movie Review: MADAME WEB
Word was out early on that the latest Marvel film, MADAME WEB, was one of the worst films ever made. But…in watching the first 1/2 of...
bankofmarquis
Jun 15, 20242 min read
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Movie Review - FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA
Many a time, the movie-going (or TV watching) public watch an EPIC saga and think - “I wonder what happened in the events leading up to...
bankofmarquis
May 30, 20242 min read
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