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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

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MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN (2016) Starring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Allison Janney, Chris O’Dowd, Terence Stamp, Ella Purnell, Finlay MacMillan, Lauren McCrostie, Hayden Keeler-Stone, Georgia Pemberton, Milo Parker, Raffiella Chapman and Pixie Davies. Screenplay by Jane Goldman. Directed by Tim Burton. Distributed by 20th Century Fox … Continue reading →

Beauty and the Beast – 25th Anniversary Edition (A PopEntertainment.com Video Review)
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Beauty and the Beast – 25th Anniversary Edition (A PopEntertainment.com Video Review)

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BEAUTY & THE BEAST – 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION (1992) Featuring the voices of Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson, Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury, David Ogden Stiers and Richard White.  Screenplay by Linda Woolverton. Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise. Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.  84 minutes.  Rated G. Twenty-five years on from it’s release, Disney’s Beauty … Continue reading →

William Shatner & Terry Bradshaw – It’s Never Too Late
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William Shatner & Terry Bradshaw – It’s Never Too Late

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William Shatner & Terry Bradshaw It’s Never Too Late by Jay S. Jacobs Better Late Than Never has one of the crazier television premises to come along in a while.  Take four pop culture living legends – two from television and two from athletics: William Shatner, a/k/a Captain Kirk of Star Trek, Henry Winkler better … Continue reading →

Sully (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
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Sully (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

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SULLY (2016) Starring Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Anna Gunn, Autumn Reeser, Holt McCallany, Mike O’Malley, Jamey Sheridan, Valerie Mahaffey, Delphi Harrington, Ahmed Lucan, Jerry Ferrara, Blake Jones, Ann Cusack, Molly Hagan, Max Adler, Jeffrey Nordling, Michael Rapaport and Katie Couric. Screenplay by Todd Komarnicki. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.  … Continue reading →

Roots (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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Roots (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

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Roots (Lionsgate Home Video-2016) In 1976, the original Roots miniseries was a defining cultural event.  It was not the first of the miniseries – or “novels for television,” as they dubbed the form at the time.  A 1974 version of Leon Uris’ QB VII was the first miniseries to be filmed by the American networks. … Continue reading →

Fatima (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
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Fatima (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

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FATIMA (2016) Starring Soria Zeroual, Zita Hanrot, Kenza-Noah Aiche, Chawki Amari, Dalila Bencherif, Edith Saulnier, Corinne Duchesne, Emir El Guerfi, Zakaria Ali-Mehidi, Zahra Addioui, Nadia Hamied, Isabelle Candelier, Franck Andrieux, Christiane Laroche and Hélène Balazard. Screenplay by Philippe Faucon. Directed by Philippe Faucon. Distributed by Kino Lorber.  78 minutes.  Not Rated. It’s easy to forget … Continue reading →

My King (Mon Roi) (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
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My King (Mon Roi) (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

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MY KING (MON ROI) (2016) Starring Emmanuelle Bercot, Vincent Cassel, Louis Garrel, Isild Le Besco, Chrystele Saint-Louis Augustin, Patrick Raynal, Paul Hamy, Yann Goven, Djemel Barek, Marie Guillard, Slim El Hedli, Nabil Kechouhen, Norman Thavaud, Amanda Added and Abdelghani Addala. Screenplay by Maïwenn and Etienne Comar. Directed by Maïwenn. Distributed by Film Movement.  124 minutes.  … Continue reading →

Florence Foster Jenkins (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
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Florence Foster Jenkins (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

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FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS (2016) Starring Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson, Nina Arianda, Stanley Townsend, Allan Corduner, Christian McKay, David Haig, John Sessions, Brid Brennan and John Kavanagh. Screenplay by Nicholas Martin. Directed by Stephen Frears. Distributed by Paramount Pictures.  110 minutes.  Rated PG-13. Talent is such a fickle thing.  Knowledge, or interest, … Continue reading →

Sing Street (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
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Sing Street (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

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SING STREET (2015) Starring Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Lucy Boynton, Jack Reynor, Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Mark McKenna, Kelly Thornton, Ian Kenny, Ben Carolan, Percy Chamburuka, Karl Rice, Conor Hamilton, Don Wycherley and Lydia McGuinness. Screenplay by John Carney. Directed by John Carney. Distributed by The Weinstein Company.  105 minutes.  Rated PG-13. Irish former musician turned … Continue reading →

Hanging with the Ballers
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Hanging with the Ballers

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Hanging with the Ballers Professional Football isn’t all that meets the eye. There is a whole different game behind the scenes: from lying and cheating to using drugs and partying. The hit HBO show Ballers explores exactly that. In the first season of the series Spencer Strasmore, played by Dwayne Johnson, is struggling to find … Continue reading →