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Column: When it comes to Vili Fualaau, ‘May December’ wants to have its cake and eat it too
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![For a certain type of action movie fan, it’s the most wonderful time of the year: January pulp trashterpiece season. Last year, that slot was occupied by the lean, mean flying machine “Plane,” starring Gerard Butler; this year, it’s the off-brand “John Wick” ripoff “The Beekeeper,” starring Jason Statham and directed by David Ayer. This […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/TNH-L-FilmReview-TheBeekeeper-WBOX-011224-03-4.jpg?w=132 "For a certain type of action movie fan, it’s the most wonderful time of the year: January pulp trashterpiece season. Last year, that slot was occupied by the lean, mean flying machine “Plane,” starring Gerard Butler; this year, it’s the off-brand “John Wick” ripoff “The Beekeeper,” starring Jason Statham and directed by David Ayer. This […]")
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‘The Beekeeper’ review: Statham stars in ‘The Beekeeper,’ a kill-ty pleasure
For a certain type of action movie fan, it’s the most wonderful time of the...
![Knowing that the movie adaptation of the stage musical version of “Mean Girls” — a song-infused, Tony Award-nominated take on the 2004 teen-movie favorite that made its Broadway debut in 2018 — originally was planned to debut on Paramount+ before being moved to a theatrical release this week, the worry was it would be what we might call a “streaming-quality” affair. Now, having seen it, we suspect Paramount Pictures executives believed it simply too strong not to be shown in auditoriums initially. Don’t get us wrong — this movie musical is only “so fetch.” It loses a bit of its […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/TNH-L-FilmReview-MeanGirls-WBOX-011224-01-3.jpg?w=132 "Knowing that the movie adaptation of the stage musical version of “Mean Girls” — a song-infused, Tony Award-nominated take on the 2004 teen-movie favorite that made its Broadway debut in 2018 — originally was planned to debut on Paramount+ before being moved to a theatrical release this week, the worry was it would be what we might call a “streaming-quality” affair. Now, having seen it, we suspect Paramount Pictures executives believed it simply too strong not to be shown in auditoriums initially. Don’t get us wrong — this movie musical is only “so fetch.” It loses a bit of its […]")
‘Mean Girls’ review: Musical adaptation retains irreverent fun of 2004 flick
Knowing that the movie adaptation of the stage musical version of “Mean Girls” — a...
Kaley Cuoco and David Oyelowo discuss their killer ‘Role Play’ in new comic thriller
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The 17 movies we’re most excited about in 2024
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How ‘Boys in the Boat’ star Callum Turner tackled the film’s Olympian challenge
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2024 winter movie preview: Our Top-10 includes the ‘Mean Girls’ musical, a new ‘Dune’ and a Bob Marley biopic
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![You learn not to expect that much from a horror movie being released the first week of the year, when theater auditoriums continue to draw folks with higher-profile movies that hit on or around Christmas Day. However, “M3GAN” — a tale of an artificial intelligence designed for children going epically out of control — arrived […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/TNH-L-FilmReview-NightSwim-010524-04-2.jpg?w=140 "You learn not to expect that much from a horror movie being released the first week of the year, when theater auditoriums continue to draw folks with higher-profile movies that hit on or around Christmas Day. However, “M3GAN” — a tale of an artificial intelligence designed for children going epically out of control — arrived […]")
‘Night Swim’ review: Horror flick stays afloat, but for only so long
You learn not to expect that much from a horror movie being released the first...
![Already dramatized in the 1993 movie “Alive,” the struggle of those who initially survived the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes mountains to remain among the living gets a gripping and emotionally compelling new telling in “Society of the Snow.” Landing on Netflix this week, the latter hits several of the major story beats of its three-decades-old predecessor: the crash, the rationing of food, the work to repair a radio and, of course, the debate over the morality of a choice they ultimately will have to make to stay alive for an indeterminate amount of […]](https://www.morningjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/TNH-L-FilmReview-SocietyoftheSnow-WBOX-010524-01-3.jpg?w=133 "Already dramatized in the 1993 movie “Alive,” the struggle of those who initially survived the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes mountains to remain among the living gets a gripping and emotionally compelling new telling in “Society of the Snow.” Landing on Netflix this week, the latter hits several of the major story beats of its three-decades-old predecessor: the crash, the rationing of food, the work to repair a radio and, of course, the debate over the morality of a choice they ultimately will have to make to stay alive for an indeterminate amount of […]")
‘Society of the Snow’ review: Bayona returns to disaster drama in stellar form
Already dramatized in the 1993 movie “Alive,” the struggle of those who initially survived the...
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Column: With sports movies an endangered species, a look back at memorable offerings of decades past
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