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Brawl in Cell Block 99 movie review (2017)

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Like "Bone Tomahawk" before it, "Brawl in Cell Block 99" starts off slow. The script takes its time setting up Bradley as a generally sympathetic hot-head who is also mercurial enough to gradually become the film's real antagonist. After he's fired from his auto-repair gig and discovers his wife Lauren (Jennifer Carpenter) has been cheating on him, he dismantles her car. But he keeps it together long enough to show that he has a plan and has previously earned Lauren's trust (offscreen, sometime prior to the film's events). Read More...

Fast X movie review & film summary (2023)

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Maybe it’s the leaden way in which director Louis Leterrier treats these beloved characters, but the opening scenes of “Fast X” are among the worst in all ten films, a cavalcade of conversations about family, legacy, and other FF tropes. It’s one thing for a character like Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) to preach the importance of family, but it’s another with notes of Charlie Puth playing over gauzy shots of him looking at press stills of Paul Walker. Read More...

Somehow they returned: Star Wars is bringing back another Sith foe thought to be dead in Ah

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It looks like promo season for Ahsoka is kicking into high gear. A new image, released exclusively by Empire Magazine, has recently been unveiled – and it looks like Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) is going to be fighting a mysterious foe. Recommended Videos Though it was already known that the late Ray Stevenson would be portraying Baylan Skoll, a former Jedi, and that Ivanna Sakhno will be portraying his dark, Force-wielding apprentice Shin Hati, the presence of an Inquisitor in the series was unknown before now. Read More...