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Series review of the week — Amazon Prime’s ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’
By Tranelle Maner | June 1, 2018Warning: There are spoilers ahead.
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Women take over the stage at the SAG Awards
By Alex Watson Tremellen | Jan. 23, 2018Sunday night’s 24th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards had a lot of firsts. The SAG awards have always adhered to a “no host” policy, but this year’s ceremony made an exception with its first-ever host, Kristen Bell.
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Review: Streep and Hanks Uphold the 1st Amendment in “The Post”
By Alex Watson Tremellen | Jan. 16, 2018Steven Spielberg’s “The Post” serves as a timely reminder that the press must hold their government accountable no matter how much those in power wish to silence them. The film chronicles the paper’s pivotal decision to publish the infamous Pentagon Papers, a study of classified documents that examined U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
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Review: Denzel Washington saves “Roman J. Israel, Esq.”
By Alex Watson Tremellen | Nov. 28, 2017Three years ago, Dan Gilroy made his directorial debut with the critically-acclaimed film “Nightcrawler” in which Jake Gyllenhaal’s character roams the streets of Los Angeles filming grisly crime scenes and selling the footage to news stations.
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Review: 'The Snowman' snowballs into a slushy mess
By Alex Watson Tremellen | Oct. 24, 2017You know a film is going to be terrible when the director explains what went wrong before the film is even released.
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TV Review: 'Scandal' Season Seven Premiere ‘Watch Me’
By Brooke Steinberg | Oct. 10, 2017WARNING: Spoilers ahead.
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Tom Cruise delivers in ‘American Made’
By Alex Watson Tremellen | Oct. 3, 2017After Tom Cruise’s recent performances in the Jack Reacher series and box office flop “The Mummy,” it seemed as if Cruise’s leading man persona was being boxed-in by established franchises.
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‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’ is more of the same, but bigger
By Alex Watson Tremellen | Sep. 26, 2017If you thought “Kingsman: The Secret Service” was outlandish enough, you’re in for quite a ride with the sequel. “Kick-Ass” director Matthew Vaughn returns for “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” and gets right to the action with a car chase through London with Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” blaring in the background.
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Review: Aronofsky’s 'Mother!' isn’t for the faint of heart
By Alex Watson Tremellen | Sep. 19, 2017The film’s opening shot gives the viewer a glimpse into what they’re getting themselves into. It serves as a forewarning that watching “Mother!” is not going to be easy, not in the slightest. Darren Aronofsky’s previous films, including “The Wrestler” and “Black Swan,” are child’s play in comparison to his latest creation.
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Movie Review: Muschietti’s ‘It’ Doesn’t Clown Around
By Kelsey Bona | Sep. 12, 2017The latest R-rated release floating up to box office records is “It,” the horror film closely based on Stephen King’s behemoth novel of the same name first published in 1986.
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Game of Thrones finale review: Spoilers Ahead!
By Emma Witmer | Aug. 29, 2017The seventh season of “Game of Thrones” came to a close this week. One notable quality of the show has always been its ability to carry on several plotlines at once. However, as the show enters its final season, it’s time for these plotlines to merge and the motives of the many characters to become unified. Episode seven, “The Dragon and the Wolf,” did just that.
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For the first time in 20 years, Princess Diana is publicly remembered in new documentary
By Isabelle Resnick | Aug. 2, 2017If you weren’t alive when Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, made her iconic mark on the world, a new HBO documentary will make you wish you were. It will also make you weep the way so many did the weeks following her tragic passing. The film, which commemorates the 20th year since her premature death, is called “Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy.”
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What to watch: ‘The Room’ by Tommy Wiseau
By Janeice Sebris | July 19, 2017“I did not hit her. I did naht! Oh, hi Mark.”
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‘The Beguiled’ enchants viewers with feminist fairytale
By Janiece Sebris | July 12, 2017Rarely do book-to-film adaptations do their job. Even more often, they fail to truly adapt the book to the audience who will see it. “The Beguiled,” however, is an adaptation that aims higher than most.
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A review of DC’s ‘Wonder Woman’
By Emma Witmer | June 14, 2017The highly anticipated blockbuster “Wonder Woman” premiered June 2 starring 32-year-old Israeli actress, martial artist and model Gal Gadot.
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Hippodrome to premiere movies throughout summer
By Mackenzie Duffy | June 7, 2017If you’re looking for a way to spend those long summer days, the Hippodrome State Theatre is hosting limited movie screenings to draw audiences throughout the summer.
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A dose of reality in Hulu’s new series ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
By Janiece Sebris | June 7, 2017Books are like messages in bottles. They traverse choppy terrains to reach us, bouncing along time and space, but eventually, through almost no action of our own, they end up right in front of us, in one form or another. It is up to us to take the crumpled message, smooth it out and listen.
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Netflix cancels ‘The Get Down,’ ‘Sense8’
By Isabelle Resnick | June 7, 2017In 2016, Fox News and Variety reported that Netflix would almost double the number of original series it would produce the following year, many of which would be unscripted. The company’s goal, according to Netflix Chief Financial Officer David Wells, is to create original content that will make up 50 percent of all the shows, movies and comedy specials Netflix offers.
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Why you should watch Netflix’s ‘The Keepers’
By Janiece Sebris | May 31, 2017Netflix’s latest true-crime docuseries (a documentary in the form of a series), “The Keepers,” is a little more than seven hours of heart-wrenching and intriguing suspense. The series chronicles the case of murdered nun and teacher Catherine Cesnik in Baltimore, Maryland, as well as the uncovering of sexual abuse within the Catholic school where she used to work.
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The Hippodrome celebrates Spirited Away’s 15th year
By Jeremy Haas | Apr. 5, 2017This weekend, the Hippodrome State Theatre will celebrate the 15th anniversary of Hayao Miyazaki’s hit 2001 animated film “Spirited Away.” The Hippodrome’s re-release screening of this classic anime will be shown Friday at 8:30 p.m., Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. and Sunday at 7 p.m.
