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Oscar Nominated Film Review: EMILIA PEREZ
Oscar Nominated Film Review: EMILIA PEREZ To say that the Spanish-language French musical crime film, EMILIA PEREZ is audacious does not...
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Jan 253 min read
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Movie Review: A REAL PAIN
After winning the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his role in A REAL PAIN, Keiran Culkin (Roman Roy in TV’s SUCCESSION) is...
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Jan 212 min read
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Director's Series: Billy Wilder's DOUBLE INDEMNITY
***The first film in a monthly series of reviews that will look at the films Directed by Billy Wilder*** Austrian filmmaker Billy Wilder...
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Jan 163 min read
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Movie Review - THE SUBSTANCE
Hollywood loves a comeback story and with Demi Moore, they have a doozy on their hands. A mainstay of 1980’s cinema, Moore was a member...
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Jan 92 min read
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Director's Series: Stanley Kubrick's EYES WIDE SHUT
The final film that Stanley Kubrick created, 1999’s EYE WIDE SHUT is almost an EXCELLENT film. Save for 2 uncharacteristic mistakes by...
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Dec 21, 20243 min read
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Movie Review: KRAVEN THE HUNTER
Is KRAVEN THE HUNTER a Holiday movie? No, it is not. Is KRAVEN THE HUNTER a GOOD movie? No, it is not. Is KRAVEN THE HUNTER a BAD movie?...
bankofmarquis
Dec 18, 20242 min read
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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,...
bankofmarquis
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...
bankofmarquis
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...
bankofmarquis
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...
bankofmarquis
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...
bankofmarquis
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...
bankofmarquis
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 -...
bankofmarquis
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...
bankofmarquis
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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