Tag: Chadwick Boseman
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Movie Review: “Get On Up” (Tate Taylor, USA/UK 2014)
Musician biopics are all the same movie: Person with troubled childhood seeks refuge in music and discovers rare talent, becoming very successful. Then, the person sows the seeds of his/her own downfall with a mixture of drugs, sex, and ego, and loses everything that once made them great. Then, there is a final begging for…
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Thoughts from the Previews: June 5, 2014
The Fault in Our Stars (Josh Boone, USA 2014) I’ve seen this trailer several times now, and the movie just looks like a total mess. It looks like it’s telling a seven-act story with no overarching point. It really bears the marks of a film being run by the novelist or people who don’t have…
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Movie Review: “Draft Day” (Ivan Reitman, USA 2014)
Ivan Reitman is still around 30 years after directing Ghostbusters (USA 1984). In that time, he has directed such other classics as . . . okay, so he’s directed nothing else that anyone should see. When I first saw a trailer for Draft Day, I really did laugh out loud. I could not believe that…
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