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The Sting (1973)

4 years after the mega-hit and all time classic "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", Director George Roy Hill and its stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford teamed up again and found that same movie magic with THE STING. I'm not sure there have ever been two movie stars more relaxed and effortlessly cool than Newman and Redford. Redford plays small-time con man Hooker, who crosses the wrong gangster by mistake during a street hustle. His long time partner is killed by crime boss, Doyle...

WOW is PRIMATE a massive surprise. A throwback to 80's visceral gore and terror with the best practical effects in ages, it's an 800lb gorilla of scares, suspense and freak out moments. AND it's well acted by a great cast. Didn't see this one coming. Mesa's own, Troy Kotsur, Best Actor Oscar winner for 2022's "Coda", stars as author Adam, whose luxurious cliff side beach house sees the return of his older daughter Lucy (a terrific Johnny Sequoia) after a long time away from him and his...

Greenland 2: Migration

Five years after the original comet disaster flick, Gerard Butler returns in GREENLAND 2: MIGRATION , a disappointing sequel to the surprising original. The good news is that Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin are back as John & Allison Garrity, still living underground in the encampment that they strove to find in the original film. But that massive bunker is showing signs of wear and the Earth is starting to push back against the impact of the comet. Fissures and lava emerge, earthquakes...

It took me about 48 hours to realize just how much I liked MARTY SUPREME . Josh Safdie's film pummels you with 150 minutes of fascinating/sordid characters, relentless tension and a music score that shouldn't work. Walking out of the theater, I wasn't sure that the whole thing did. I knew that Timothee Chalamet absolutely knocked it out of the park, creating yet another character in a cavalcade of diverse performances that seems almost impossible at his age. Like Daniel Day Lewis in one of my...

It: Welcome to Derry (Season 1)

The new series IT: WELCOME TO DERRY is everything that the disappointing "Alien: Earth" wasn't: scary, thrilling and one hell of a franchise expansion. THIS is how you create 8 great episodes that expand the Stephen King universe while honoring its legacy. Noah Hawley's "Alien" FX series spent most of its time focused on a bunch of Peter Pan mythos and androids, reducing the xenomorph to a domesticated house pet. Not here. Pennywise is one lethal, gory, brutal sonofabitch. Just the way we...

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson are showstoppers in the moving, new based-on-an impossibly-true-story SONG SONG BLUE . As the story unfolded, I kept turning to my wife and whispering, can this actually be true??? Researching it post viewing, the surprising answer is, for the most part, YES! Hugh Jackman plays Mike, Vietnam vet and long time rocker with a great reputation around Wisconsin after decades of playing bars. Celebrating 20 years of sobriety in a blue collar life, his music comes...

The Sting (1973)

4 years after the mega-hit and all time classic "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", Director George Roy Hill and its stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford teamed up again and found that same movie magic with THE STING. I'm not sure there have ever been two movie stars more relaxed and effortlessly cool than Newman and Redford. Redford plays small-time con man Hooker, who crosses the wrong gangster by mistake during a street hustle. His long time partner is killed by crime boss, Doyle...

WOW is PRIMATE a massive surprise. A throwback to 80's visceral gore and terror with the best practical effects in ages, it's an 800lb gorilla of scares, suspense and freak out moments. AND it's well acted by a great cast. Didn't see this one coming. Mesa's own, Troy Kotsur, Best Actor Oscar winner for 2022's "Coda", stars as author Adam, whose luxurious cliff side beach house sees the return of his older daughter Lucy (a terrific Johnny Sequoia) after a long time away from him and his...

Greenland 2: Migration

Five years after the original comet disaster flick, Gerard Butler returns in GREENLAND 2: MIGRATION , a disappointing sequel to the surprising original. The good news is that Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin are back as John & Allison Garrity, still living underground in the encampment that they strove to find in the original film. But that massive bunker is showing signs of wear and the Earth is starting to push back against the impact of the comet. Fissures and lava emerge, earthquakes...

It took me about 48 hours to realize just how much I liked MARTY SUPREME . Josh Safdie's film pummels you with 150 minutes of fascinating/sordid characters, relentless tension and a music score that shouldn't work. Walking out of the theater, I wasn't sure that the whole thing did. I knew that Timothee Chalamet absolutely knocked it out of the park, creating yet another character in a cavalcade of diverse performances that seems almost impossible at his age. Like Daniel Day Lewis in one of my...

It: Welcome to Derry (Season 1)

The new series IT: WELCOME TO DERRY is everything that the disappointing "Alien: Earth" wasn't: scary, thrilling and one hell of a franchise expansion. THIS is how you create 8 great episodes that expand the Stephen King universe while honoring its legacy. Noah Hawley's "Alien" FX series spent most of its time focused on a bunch of Peter Pan mythos and androids, reducing the xenomorph to a domesticated house pet. Not here. Pennywise is one lethal, gory, brutal sonofabitch. Just the way we...

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson are showstoppers in the moving, new based-on-an impossibly-true-story SONG SONG BLUE . As the story unfolded, I kept turning to my wife and whispering, can this actually be true??? Researching it post viewing, the surprising answer is, for the most part, YES! Hugh Jackman plays Mike, Vietnam vet and long time rocker with a great reputation around Wisconsin after decades of playing bars. Celebrating 20 years of sobriety in a blue collar life, his music comes...

The Sting (1973)

4 years after the mega-hit and all time classic "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", Director George Roy Hill and its stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford teamed up again and found that same movie magic with THE STING. I'm not sure there have ever been two movie stars more relaxed and effortlessly cool than Newman and Redford. Redford plays small-time con man Hooker, who crosses the wrong gangster by mistake during a street hustle. His long time partner is killed by crime boss, Doyle...

WOW is PRIMATE a massive surprise. A throwback to 80's visceral gore and terror with the best practical effects in ages, it's an 800lb gorilla of scares, suspense and freak out moments. AND it's well acted by a great cast. Didn't see this one coming. Mesa's own, Troy Kotsur, Best Actor Oscar winner for 2022's "Coda", stars as author Adam, whose luxurious cliff side beach house sees the return of his older daughter Lucy (a terrific Johnny Sequoia) after a long time away from him and his...

Greenland 2: Migration

Five years after the original comet disaster flick, Gerard Butler returns in GREENLAND 2: MIGRATION , a disappointing sequel to the surprising original. The good news is that Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin are back as John & Allison Garrity, still living underground in the encampment that they strove to find in the original film. But that massive bunker is showing signs of wear and the Earth is starting to push back against the impact of the comet. Fissures and lava emerge, earthquakes...

It took me about 48 hours to realize just how much I liked MARTY SUPREME . Josh Safdie's film pummels you with 150 minutes of fascinating/sordid characters, relentless tension and a music score that shouldn't work. Walking out of the theater, I wasn't sure that the whole thing did. I knew that Timothee Chalamet absolutely knocked it out of the park, creating yet another character in a cavalcade of diverse performances that seems almost impossible at his age. Like Daniel Day Lewis in one of my...

It: Welcome to Derry (Season 1)

The new series IT: WELCOME TO DERRY is everything that the disappointing "Alien: Earth" wasn't: scary, thrilling and one hell of a franchise expansion. THIS is how you create 8 great episodes that expand the Stephen King universe while honoring its legacy. Noah Hawley's "Alien" FX series spent most of its time focused on a bunch of Peter Pan mythos and androids, reducing the xenomorph to a domesticated house pet. Not here. Pennywise is one lethal, gory, brutal sonofabitch. Just the way we...

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson are showstoppers in the moving, new based-on-an impossibly-true-story SONG SONG BLUE . As the story unfolded, I kept turning to my wife and whispering, can this actually be true??? Researching it post viewing, the surprising answer is, for the most part, YES! Hugh Jackman plays Mike, Vietnam vet and long time rocker with a great reputation around Wisconsin after decades of playing bars. Celebrating 20 years of sobriety in a blue collar life, his music comes...

The Sting (1973)

4 years after the mega-hit and all time classic "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", Director George Roy Hill and its stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford teamed up again and found that same movie magic with THE STING. I'm not sure there have ever been two movie stars more relaxed and effortlessly cool than Newman and Redford. Redford plays small-time con man Hooker, who crosses the wrong gangster by mistake during a street hustle. His long time partner is killed by crime boss, Doyle...

WOW is PRIMATE a massive surprise. A throwback to 80's visceral gore and terror with the best practical effects in ages, it's an 800lb gorilla of scares, suspense and freak out moments. AND it's well acted by a great cast. Didn't see this one coming. Mesa's own, Troy Kotsur, Best Actor Oscar winner for 2022's "Coda", stars as author Adam, whose luxurious cliff side beach house sees the return of his older daughter Lucy (a terrific Johnny Sequoia) after a long time away from him and his...

Greenland 2: Migration

Five years after the original comet disaster flick, Gerard Butler returns in GREENLAND 2: MIGRATION , a disappointing sequel to the surprising original. The good news is that Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin are back as John & Allison Garrity, still living underground in the encampment that they strove to find in the original film. But that massive bunker is showing signs of wear and the Earth is starting to push back against the impact of the comet. Fissures and lava emerge, earthquakes...

It took me about 48 hours to realize just how much I liked MARTY SUPREME . Josh Safdie's film pummels you with 150 minutes of fascinating/sordid characters, relentless tension and a music score that shouldn't work. Walking out of the theater, I wasn't sure that the whole thing did. I knew that Timothee Chalamet absolutely knocked it out of the park, creating yet another character in a cavalcade of diverse performances that seems almost impossible at his age. Like Daniel Day Lewis in one of my...

It: Welcome to Derry (Season 1)

The new series IT: WELCOME TO DERRY is everything that the disappointing "Alien: Earth" wasn't: scary, thrilling and one hell of a franchise expansion. THIS is how you create 8 great episodes that expand the Stephen King universe while honoring its legacy. Noah Hawley's "Alien" FX series spent most of its time focused on a bunch of Peter Pan mythos and androids, reducing the xenomorph to a domesticated house pet. Not here. Pennywise is one lethal, gory, brutal sonofabitch. Just the way we...

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson are showstoppers in the moving, new based-on-an impossibly-true-story SONG SONG BLUE . As the story unfolded, I kept turning to my wife and whispering, can this actually be true??? Researching it post viewing, the surprising answer is, for the most part, YES! Hugh Jackman plays Mike, Vietnam vet and long time rocker with a great reputation around Wisconsin after decades of playing bars. Celebrating 20 years of sobriety in a blue collar life, his music comes...

The Sting (1973)

4 years after the mega-hit and all time classic "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", Director George Roy Hill and its stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford teamed up again and found that same movie magic with THE STING. I'm not sure there have ever been two movie stars more relaxed and effortlessly cool than Newman and Redford. Redford plays small-time con man Hooker, who crosses the wrong gangster by mistake during a street hustle. His long time partner is killed by crime boss, Doyle...

WOW is PRIMATE a massive surprise. A throwback to 80's visceral gore and terror with the best practical effects in ages, it's an 800lb gorilla of scares, suspense and freak out moments. AND it's well acted by a great cast. Didn't see this one coming. Mesa's own, Troy Kotsur, Best Actor Oscar winner for 2022's "Coda", stars as author Adam, whose luxurious cliff side beach house sees the return of his older daughter Lucy (a terrific Johnny Sequoia) after a long time away from him and his...

Greenland 2: Migration

Five years after the original comet disaster flick, Gerard Butler returns in GREENLAND 2: MIGRATION , a disappointing sequel to the surprising original. The good news is that Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin are back as John & Allison Garrity, still living underground in the encampment that they strove to find in the original film. But that massive bunker is showing signs of wear and the Earth is starting to push back against the impact of the comet. Fissures and lava emerge, earthquakes...

It took me about 48 hours to realize just how much I liked MARTY SUPREME . Josh Safdie's film pummels you with 150 minutes of fascinating/sordid characters, relentless tension and a music score that shouldn't work. Walking out of the theater, I wasn't sure that the whole thing did. I knew that Timothee Chalamet absolutely knocked it out of the park, creating yet another character in a cavalcade of diverse performances that seems almost impossible at his age. Like Daniel Day Lewis in one of my...

It: Welcome to Derry (Season 1)

The new series IT: WELCOME TO DERRY is everything that the disappointing "Alien: Earth" wasn't: scary, thrilling and one hell of a franchise expansion. THIS is how you create 8 great episodes that expand the Stephen King universe while honoring its legacy. Noah Hawley's "Alien" FX series spent most of its time focused on a bunch of Peter Pan mythos and androids, reducing the xenomorph to a domesticated house pet. Not here. Pennywise is one lethal, gory, brutal sonofabitch. Just the way we...

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson are showstoppers in the moving, new based-on-an impossibly-true-story SONG SONG BLUE . As the story unfolded, I kept turning to my wife and whispering, can this actually be true??? Researching it post viewing, the surprising answer is, for the most part, YES! Hugh Jackman plays Mike, Vietnam vet and long time rocker with a great reputation around Wisconsin after decades of playing bars. Celebrating 20 years of sobriety in a blue collar life, his music comes...

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