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Review: “Mank” Streaming on Netflix

Mank, about adult-beverage-loving Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, a.k.a. Mank, is one of the newer original offerings from Netflix. While movies about Old Hollywood are usually pretty cool, unfortunately this one was boring and self-indulgent. In short, it’s the type of movie that the pretentious critics and compliant functionaries who vote in the Oscars like. read more

Lockdown Film Review: ‘Creed II’ Streaming on Amazon Prime

Perhaps catching up on movies you never got around to see makes the current coronavirus lockdown/quarantine somewhat bearable. Or maybe not.

In any event, released in November 2018, Creed II is the second sequel to the the Sylvester Stallone-created and starring Rocky franchise and constitutes the eighth overall installment, taking all the movies in the series collectively. read more

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