Tag: Idris Elba

Blu-ray Review: The Mountain Between Us

[amazon_link asins=’B0774NRYZT’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’6f5d6d0a-f489-11e7-b9c0-fd53800d61c8′]I didn’t hate The Mountain Between Us the way some viewers and critics appeared to. Instead, it registered with me as one of those predictable survival films that so often waste good acting talent. Nothing…

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Finding Dory (Blu-ray)

The follow-up to 2003’s delightful Finding Nemo, Finding Dory follows the very friendly blue tang fish who suffers memory loss every 10 seconds or so. As a baby, Dory’s (Ellen DeGeneres) loving parents (Eugene Levy, Diane Keaton) work to teach…

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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (Blu-ray)

Based on Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, scripted by William Nicholson (Gladiator), and directed by Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl), Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom is a well meaning, but somewhat lacking biographical film about one of the greatest leaders and…

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Blu-ray Review: Thor

Color me surprised when Kenneth Branagh’s name appeared as the director of Marvel’s Thor. He just Hardly known for his box office hits, he just didn’t seem like the right guy to the reigns of a $150 million superhero saga….

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Blu-ray Review: The Losers

Warner Bros. | 2010 | 97 mins. | Rated PG-13 A classic action movie, The Losers is based on a comic book series of the same name. Smartly, the film pays homage to its drawn beginnings and then quickly morphs…

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Blu-ray Review: Obsessed

Sony Pictures | 2009 | 108 mins | Rated PG-13 At first glance, Obsessed seemed like a great opportunity for pop diva Beyoncé Knowles to stretch her acting wings and play something other than, well, a pop diva. We get…

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