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Day: June 18, 2019

Blu-ray Review: Hotel Mumbai

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Following a similar trajectory to other gritty, ripped from the headlines films like Paul Greengrass’s United 93 and Captain Phillips, and more recently Clint Eastwood’s underrated The 15:17 to Paris, Hotel Mumbai is the latest movie that seeks to dramatize a violent real life attack by recreating it in the… Read More Blu-ray Review: Hotel Mumbai

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Blu-ray Review: Wonder Park

By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) A little girl named June Bailey (Brianna Denski) has the magical amusement park from her imagination suddenly become real in Wonder Park, a mediocre new film from Paramount’s animation division that is mildly amusing at times but fails to really live up to its high concept premise. June… Read More Blu-ray Review: Wonder Park

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Blu-ray Review: Gloria Bell

By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) An English-language remake of his own acclaimed 2013 Chilean drama Gloria, Sebastián Lelio’s Gloria Bell is an almost beat for beat copy of the original film, except the setting has been changed to Los Angeles to make it more accessible for American audiences. The result is a technically… Read More Blu-ray Review: Gloria Bell

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