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The Rock shows Hart and smarts in Central Intelligence
The main guys in Central Intelligence sure were different 20 years ago, we see in the flashback that sets up the action comedy starring Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart. The Rock as Robbie Weirdicht was...
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Screen gem presentation
I floated the idea right here just a few days ago. It was a dream, really, that notion that it was time to trade in my iPad Air 2 for the iPad Logic 12-inch model. You can pretty much guess what I’m...
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Latest Star Trek feels a lot like TV days, and that’s OK
Would Justin Lin make my favorite Star Trek crew members faster or more furious? Yes, but it may take a while. And, well, maybe a little. And in the case of Star Trek Beyond, the work of the director...
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Matt Damon is Jason Bourne again, so people must die
To say that things get heavy when old connection Nicky hunts down former operative Jason Bourne on the streets of Greece to let him know that she’s hacked into the agency’s files to find the secrets...
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There’s a lot to like about the rotten heroes of Suicide Squad
What happens when you go to the tightest jail to collect a handful of the baddest people — that last word used loosely, for this is the comic book world, after all — to save the world? A divide between...
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How awful that Meryl Streep can even act like she can sing like Florence...
Back in the high society days when newspapers ran popular opinion, soldiers fought and relaxed en masses and something called records were played on a gadget by the name of the radio, there was a woman...
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In War Dogs, everybody waits for the magic bullet to go off
Miles Teller and Jonah Hill are all grown up in War Dogs. Director Todd Phillips, too. Teller left any signs of his snide teen dystopia days and Hill the goof from Superbad and the pair of 21 Jump...
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Does the world need a pretty good movie about Roberto Duran?
No question that Roberto Duran, he of the Hands of Stone, was one of the best fighters in the world, the scrappy soul from Panama who threw his first professional punch in 1968 and remained relevant in...
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When it comes to alien movies, Arrival attempts to communicate new things
Are they here to help us or are they here to hurt us? That’s the crux of Arrival from the start to finish of the 1-hour, 56-minute science fiction offering from director Denis Villeneuve and...
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There’s a lot to run from and toward with Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Do not expect to feel all warm and fuzzy about Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. Yes, director Ang Lee’s latest big screen spectacle is about a homecoming tour of triumph. Yes, the screenplay of...
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The elusive Warren Beatty applies his rules to recluse Howard Hughes
No doubt he’s an odd duck, but wildly intelligent. That much I was certain of even before my dear wife Karen and I took in the Black Friday 6:50 p.m. showing of Rules Don’t Apply in the Regal Cinemas’...
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The type of Office Christmas Party you either run to or from is back on the...
Directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck bank on the well-worn reputation of the office Christmas party to drive home the romp and camp in this holiday comedy they’ve fashioned from a story and script...
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I don’t think it’s a snap, and no chat at all
I do believe the little ghosts on the display on the wall at Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA have something to do with the social media platform Snapchat. On the...
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Gosling, Stone sing, dance their way into a faraway La La Land
Director and writer Damien Chazelle wastes not one moment to let everybody know La La Land is going to bring everybody back to the days when Hollywood musicals were big, bold and bright. The first five...
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Happy New Year, and may things look up in 2017
The Christmas tree at the very center of Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA caught my eye on the one day I rushed around to complete my shopping for my dear wife...
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The Cowboy joint opens at last in Destiny USA
It seems like forever since Toby Keith’s place closed its doors at Destiny USA and other Cowboy joint hung a shingle with the promise to bring some yee-hah back to the pahdnahs of Syracuse. In fact, it...
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We all won because these Hidden Figures reached for the stars
The nation was full of hope and fears in so many ways back in 1961 when these folks at NASA were busting butt to keep up with the Russians, a President on small screens seen by huge groups voicing...
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Good promo for the home squad
Good promo space for the Syracuse Crunch at Destiny USA, I figure. The downtown AHL hockey squad and the mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex can root for each other to do well. The pro team...
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We’ll go there with the shampoo bottles
We completed a bathroom project at A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. And I’m so glad we didn’t have to drill into the tile inside the tub/shower enclosure to do it. When our...
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Patriots Day strikes the right blow for heroes rising from the terror
The heroes rose immediately from amid the victims that horrible sunny April morning at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, and Patriots Day does one hell of a job reminding us all about how high...
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