One Night in Miami

One of the season’s most pleasant surprises, Regina King’s One Night in Miami, based on the play by Kemp Powers suggesting a 1964 meeting of minds between titans Jim Brown, Malcom X, Cassius Clay and Sam Cooke, Jr., is a superbly acted and thought-provoking movie,…

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News of the World

In News of the World, based on the 2016 novel by Paulette Jiles about a Civil War vet roaming the Old West performing the news of the day to paying crowds in tiny towns across Texas, there is something almost comforting in the simple…

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Wrong Turn

Has enough time truly passed to reboot 2003’s backwoods horror hit Wrong Turn (which itself aped scores of earlier films with the same general story)?  Modest points in this version go to screenwriter Alan McElroy and director Mike P. Nelson who competently mount a…

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