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"Rio 2" Reviewed

Colorful, musical (that’s Bruno Mars, and that’s Will I Am, and that’s Janelle Monae), it is a fun ride and even lovelier in 3D -every time you’ve got a lot of flying going on it will look nice in 3D

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Tom Hardy Is Elton John!

In what seems to be something like a vanity project, do you do it at all? Plus, will Elton deal with sobriety robbing him of so much of his creative gifts on Rocketman? And when, in what part of his life exactly, did John resemble Hardy?

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"A Haunted House 2" Reviewed

Wayans and girlfriend Megan (Jaime Pressly) plus her two children (Ashley Rickards, Steele Stebbins) move to a haunted house with a creepy doll a la Twilight Zone has a sexual relationship with Damon (no really, very yucky)

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"The Grand Budapest Hotel" Reviewed

Madcap and frantic constantly, a movie without a breather or a moment of realness, it is wearying without being very much fun and while certainly talented enough, it is a lot of effort for not too many rewards. Spend your summer vacation at the Overlook instead.

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Mickey Rooney And The Generation Gap

With his open face and infectious smile, Rooney was the American teen -he was the blueprint for what was coming up a generation later: a rebellion into righteousness both innocent yet of the world. “Babes In Arm” was the earliest stirrings of teenage protest.

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"The Muppets Most Wanted" Reviewed

Less of the ol’ personal jesus stuff and more thrills and chills and starring Ricky Gervais as the Muppet World Tour manager Dominic Badguy (“It means guy who is good”) and a most wanted frog in the world Constantin as the Kermit doppelganger

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"Non Stop" Reviewed

To claim “Nonstop” beggars the imagination is to damn it with faint praise. I will go along with Hitchcock’s damning of those reviewers obsessed with plausibility but as far as flying epics are concerned “Peter Pan” is more believable.

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Lance Bangs' ‘Breadcrumb Trail’: The Story Of Slint

The documentary, like many others of the genre, is built around interviews and old footage of rehearsals and concerts, but what struck me first was the age of these guys when they first met, began to play together and form bands. Brian McMahan and Britt Walford were kids, 13 or 14-year-old kids when they formed Languid and Flaccid!

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"Mr Peabody And Sherman" Reviewed

I could have done without the montage of Sherman’s pre-8 years old childhood to Lennon’s “Beautiful Boy” (which probably cost them more bucks than all the voice talent in the movie combined) but the end result was a movie that honors at least some of the spirit of Ward and will make for a late Sunday afternoon HBO treat for years to come.

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