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Daisy Edgar-Jones in Twisters - photo by Melinda Sue Gordon

Twisters review: buckle up for the ride

Twisters is a decent action thriller about tornado chasers. It’s nail biting fun with lots of menacing special effects as long as you aren’t too nitpicky about the details. Willing suspension of disbelief helps you just enjoy the thrills and […]

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Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney in Anyone But You

Anyone But You review: working the tropes and getting laughs

Anyone But You is a rom-com loosely based on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. It uses similar character names, silly misunderstandings, a few quotes from the Bard plastered about the sets, and very broad humor. It’s been modernized to include

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Lily James in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Review: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is quite a mouthful of a title all right. It’s quite a lot of movie as well, clocking in at over 2 hours. The length isn’t a problem if you watch it

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Taye Diggs and Lucy Liu in Set It Up

Brain Dump: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Set it Up, and The Bold Type

In this brain dump I’m disgorging tidbits about Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Set it Up, and The Bold Type. One’s to binge watch, one’s a movie, and one’s a series on Freeform.

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Michiel Huisman and Lily James in Guernsey

Watch This: Trailer for Guernsey (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was the original title of this film, and the title of the book on which it is based. That’s been shortened to simply Guernsey for the film.

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Janelle Monáe, Taraji P. Henson, and Octavia Spencer in "Hidden Figures"

I’m Excited About the Cast of Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures doesn’t release until January 2017, but I’m already excited about the cast and the people they are playing. Taraji P. Henson, Janelle Monáe, and Octavia Spencer star as three mathematicians working at NASA. The film is based on

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