Coming Distractions - The Latest Movie and TV Reviews

Coming Distractions - The Latest Movie and TV Reviews

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Coming Distractions - The Latest Movie and TV Reviews episodes

  • Bright
    Director David Ayer's latest film, Bright, teams Will Smith and Joel Edgerton as two cops trying to survive in Los Angeles after finding a powerful artifact. The generic survival premise is flipped on its head when we are introduced to a world much like our own that is uniquely filled orcs, fairies, elves, and sometimes even dragons flying overhead in the distance. Joel Edgerton plays Nick Jakoby, the first Orc to serve as a police officer, and Will Smith plays his veteran partner, Daryl Ward, who is fresh off of medical leave after being injured on duty. When the two come across a magic wand they trigger a series of events that have the hunted by elves, the FBI, crooked cops, and gangsters. The film also makes an attempt (poorly) at using the Orcs as an allegory for race relations in this world.

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    11 min
  • Molly's Game
    The story of the so-called "Poker Princess" Molly Bloom has been put into the Aaron Sorkin slick fast dialogue machine and come out the other side looking good. Sorkin, in his directorial debut, turns actress Jessica Chastain into the former skier turned illegal poker gamer runner. Jumping between dishing her information to her reluctant lawyer, Charlie Jaffey, played by Idris Elba and the full backstory of how she rose from cocktail waitress to working with the Russian mob, Molly's Game is a good time. Sorkin brings his dialogue-heavy style to his first film and allows for us to see what a meteoric rise is like from the inside. With its violence, money, and glamour. Opening on Christmas Day, Molly's Game is not a groundbreaking story or film, but you will enjoy your time in the theater. A nice well-rounded film to end the year.

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    7 min
  • Molly’s Game

    The story of the so-called "Poker Princess" Molly Bloom has been put into the Aaron Sorkin slick fast dialogue machine and come out the other side looking good. Sorkin, in his directorial debut, turns actress Jessica Chastain into the former skier turned illegal poker gamer runner. Jumping between dishing her information to her reluctant lawyer, Charlie Jaffey, played by Idris Elba and the full backstory of how she rose from cocktail waitress to working with the Russian mob, Molly's Game is a good time.


    Sorkin brings his dialogue-heavy style to his first film and allows for us to see what a meteoric rise is like from the inside. With its violence, money, and glamour. Opening on Christmas Day, Molly's Game is not a groundbreaking story or film, but you will enjoy your time in the theater. A nice well-rounded film to end the year.

    7 min
  • The Shape of Water
    Guillermo del Toro's (Pan's Labyrinth) latest film that he both wrote and directed, The Shape of Water is a dark fantasy drama about a mute janitor that gets a job at a secret government laboratory. While working there she meets the "asset," an amphibious creature not unlike the classic monster movie "The Creature from the Black Lagoon." The janitor, Elisa (Sally Hawkins), and the asset (Doug Jones) fall in love, and upon learning the possible demise of her new love, Elisa fights to release the asset from the facility so they can be together.

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    10 min
  • Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
    Picking up where Episode VII left off, a newcomer to the Star Wars universe, Rian Johnson, takes the helm with Star Wars: Episode VIII: The Last Jedi as both its writer and director. Produced by Lucasfilm, Episode VIII once again stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, with returning classic characters played by Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher. We find Rey (Ridley) working desperately to get Luke Skywalker (Hamill) to rejoin the Rebel Alliance in its last days, while Finn (Boyega) and Poe (Isaac) race against time to save the remaining fleet of the resistance. Looming questions are answered, new questions arise all the while putting Rey against her new sworn enemy in Kylo Ren (Driver).

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    8 min
  • TV Review: She's Gotta Have It - Season 1
    Spike Lee revisits his famous drama/comedy 1986 film, She's Gotta Have It, but this time as a TV series that is updated for a new era and available as a Netflix Original Series. The general story is the same, but with needed tweaks to bring the series on Black polyamory into 2017. The series still follows Nola Darling, a "single" Black woman who has open sexual relationships with three men that are wildly different in personality. They reflect aspects of herself in archetypical ways. Whether the carefree/immature side, the stability of adulthood, or the worldly overachiever, the three men work as a vessel for Nola's best and worst qualities.

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    21 min
  • TV Review: She’s Gotta Have It - Season 1

    Spike Lee revisits his famous drama/comedy 1986 film, She's Gotta Have It, but this time as a TV series that is updated for a new era and available as a Netflix Original Series. The general story is the same, but with needed tweaks to bring the series on Black polyamory into 2017.


    The series still follows Nola Darling, a "single" Black woman who has open sexual relationships with three men that are wildly different in personality. They reflect aspects of herself in archetypical ways. Whether the carefree/immature side, the stability of adulthood, or the worldly overachiever, the three men work as a vessel for Nola's best and worst qualities.

    21 min
  • Roman J. Israel Esq.
    Movie Review: Roman J. Israel Esq. The legal drama starring Denzel Washington as Roman J. Israel Esq., a lawyer who has spent his career as the man behind the curtain so to speak. An eccentric legal savant, Israel must confront his hardline views of helping the poor and the disaffected when he is thrust into a world of money and power that he's only seen from a safe distance. When an opportunity for a different life comes into conflict with one's beliefs, this is where the character must decide if his lifelong held convictions are truly worth the sacrifices that he has made. Cast: Denzel Washington Colin Farrell Carmen Ejogo

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    6 min
  • TV Review: The Punisher - Season 1
    Jon Bernthal returns to the role of Frank Castle aka The Punisher for his solo series. Marvel's Netflix shows have run the gamut of quality and I am happy to say that 'The Punisher' has now climbed to the top of my list. Taking on the story of a murdering sociopath anti-hero isn't an easy task but showrunner/executive producer Steve Lightfoot seemingly handled it with ease. The Punisher focuses on Frank Castle months after the events of Daredevil Season 2, in which he is believed to be dead. However, he works in the shadows taking down mobsters, violent thugs, etc until he comes across a bit of evidence that reopens some emotional wounds from his time doing spec ops work in Afghanistan. His spec ops work might just be the key to understanding what happened to his wife and kids, and perhaps tells us more about Frank Castle the man in the end. Cast: Jon Bernthal Ebon Moss-Bachrach Ben Barnes Amber Rose Revah Paul Schulze Jason R. Moore Michael Nathanson Daniel Webber Jaime Ray Newman Deborah Ann Woll

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    10 min
  • TV Review: Stranger Things - Season 2
    TV Review: Welcome back to Hawkins, Indiana for the second season of the Netflix runaway hit, Stranger Things. We find ourselves back with Mike, Will, Dustin, and Lucas as they are living their normal lives after the events of Will going missing, meeting Eleven, and their battle against the dreaded Demogorgon. Season 2 picks up a few months after the original and we find Will not doing so well and suffering from what he believes are flashbacks to his time in the Upside Down. As time goes on, we realize the threat of the Upside Down and what lies within it can not be ignored and its power is spreading. The team of kids must work alongside Sheriff Hopper and a host of old and new friends to wag a final battle to save themselves and the town. Cast: Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers David Harbour as Jim Hopper Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler Millie Bobby Brown as Jane Ives / Eleven Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair Noah Schnapp as Will Byers Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers Joe Keery as Steve Harrington Dacre Montgomery as Billy Hargrove Cara Buono as Karen Wheeler Sean Astin as Bob Newby Paul Reiser as Dr. Sam Owens

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    18 min

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