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Finding Dory (2016, out now on DVD) is populated with animations of sea and marine animals. There is a shark, an octopus, a marlin, and birds, all helping out, in some way, to assist Dory, a small blue tang fish, to find her parents. Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) has gotten lost. This is played out in…

Bleed for This (2016) is an awkward title that does not quite catch on. The title does not catch on, but the subject does. This is another boxing film, and as far as I can remember, is the year’s boxing movie. Southpaw and Creed have come and gone from the previous year. It is also…

Florence Foster Jenkins (2016, UK), out on DVD December 13 2016 (in North America). Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep) has the advantages of being a wealthy socialite or celebrity, New York, 1944. Being wealthy gives her the ability to throw money at her passion: singing. This is the story of a socialite who is in the opportunity…

Trying to understand aliens, in Arrival (2016), coming to movie theaters this week. There was another film called The Arrival in 1996. The Arrival had similar premise to Arrival, but turned out there was a twist. The Arrival starred Charlie Sheen in scientist mode. Arrival has Amy Adams in scientist mode. Arrival’s premise is straightforward.…

The Sea of Trees (out now on DVD) reminds me of one of those famous inspirational stories. Yes, it is a story containing a suicidal theme and there’s a mysterious touch of Spiritism, but wait a minute. When school teacher Arthur Breenan goes to Japan’s “Suicide Forest” to do the unthinkable after a family tragedy, he…

You know holiday season is upon us when a Thanksgiving movie is coming to theaters this week. Almost Christmas (2016) is an apt title because it is almost Christmas in the dateline and Thanksgiving this month begins the broader holiday season. The premise of Almost Christmas is when a “dysfunctional” family gathers together for Thanksgiving.…

The song playing over the end credits of track and field film Race (2016) has a line “let the best man win”. Race is a straightforwardly told Jessie Owens story about the best man at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It co-stars Jason Sudeikis (Angry Birds) as Owens’ coach Larry Snyder and a young Jessie Owens…

A ratings phenomenon. A presenter, Howard Beale, who has been dumped by his wife and television company, is going through a breakdown on screen. This in front of millions of Americans, in his final week of broadcasting. But his raves are making the ratings sky rocket. Then he is propped up by the television network.…

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was a summer hit, but it is more than a pop corn movie. The summer of 1984 at the movies was about Gremlins, Ghostbusters and Indiana Jones 2, otherwise known as Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Darker Director of Temple of Doom, Steven Spielberg, admits in…

Tom Cruise established his tons of personality brand of acting with Risky Business and Top Gun and followed that up with Cocktail and Rain Man, in the 1980’s. Top Gun catapulted him to stardom in 1986 playing a cocksure flyer in the Airforce with grin, muscle and way too much charm. It cemented Cruises reputation…
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