Movies
Today’s audiences don’t just watch movies at the local cineplex. They screen them on their laptops, tablets and smart phones as well. The genres may be different, but Hollywood in Toto looks at entertainment value first and foremost when helping you pick the best movie for your favorite media player.
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‘Oh, Hi!’ Takes Rom-Coms in Bracing New Direction
Sophie Brooks’ “Oh, Hi!” gets its title from a cornball pun on Ohio and a sign visible in a small…
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How Penn’s ‘Crossing Guard’ Brought Out Best in Nicholson
Sean Penn’s “The Crossing Guard” (1995) marked the star’s second film as writer/director (the first being 1991’s “The Indian Runner”)…
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‘Fantastic Four’ – Pro-Family, Pro-Life and Pro-MCU
The “Fast & Furious” franchise is all about family … and driving cars through massive holes in logic and physics.…
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‘Monster Island’ – The Creature from the WWII Lagoon
The Creature from the Black Lagoon has some company. “Monster Island” features a sea creature who bears a striking resemblance…
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‘Ick’ Delivers Culture War TKO
Brandon Routh’s character is far from super in the horror-comedy “Ick.” He plays a nebbishy science teacher standing between his…
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‘Wonder Boys’ at 25: The College Mindset, Defined
Curtis Hanson’s “Wonder Boys” (2000) is my college movie, the film I look to when I think back to not…
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‘Explorers’ at 40: How Joe Dante Captured Childhood Awe, Wonder
If “The Goonies” was written by Carl Sagan, it might have resembled “Explorers,” the 1985 fantasy that director Joe Dante…
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‘Guns & Moses’ – The Movie Hollywood Would Never Make
Don’t hold your breath waiting for a film celebrating the “good guy with a gun” narrative. Just as unlikely? A…
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‘Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure’ at 40: This Man-Child Never Grows Old
“Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure” (1985), Tim Burton’s debut feature film, is a perfect synchronization of star and filmmaker. Burton, the wunderkind…
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How ‘DC League of Super-Pets’ Laps Gunn’s ‘Superman’
“DC League of Super-Pets” has become the underrated and not automatically remembered entry in the “Superman” film franchise. That’s funny,…
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