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NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (2016) Review Directed by Jon M. Chu 18 months after the events in the first film, Now You See Me 2 returns with old and new characters still centering the lives of the four horsemen. After Henley (Isla Fisher) leaves the team, Lula (Lizzy Caplan) joins as the newest female member of the group. …
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For a limited time you may now watch SPOTLIGHT, the Oscar pick for Best Picture, back at select cinemas: Eastwood, Gateway, Powerplant, Robinsons Galleria, and the newly opened Cinema ’76. The movie won two Oscars for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture in the recently concluded 88th Academy Awards. It also had four other nominations …
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SPOTLIGHT (2015) Review Directed by Tom McCarthy Powerful, riveting, well-written, well-acted and well-directed. Spotlight is the kind of film that never gets boring as it absorbs you in its controversial story. Though it never gets to use suspenseful scoring or treats its scenes to be thrilling, because it didn’t need to. Its story is enough …
By Ymmanwel Rico Provinio “Crime does not pay” an adage that holds the truth, even in this 21st century. Spotlighting a decade-long and numerous sexual abuses inflicted upon the youth, altar boys or helpers, became a recurring sickening diseases within the darkened walls of the Catholic Church. Not only the innocent minors suffered, but also …
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Academy Award nominated film, Spotlight follows The Boston Globe’s “Spotlight” team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative unit in the United States and its investigation into the widespread child sex abuse cases in the Boston area. It is based on a series of stories by the real Spotlight Team that earned The Globe the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public …
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