All posts by Jim Batts
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FRANKIE (2019)- Review
With the first of the big year-end holidays less than a week away, those anxieties about huge family...
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CHARLIE’S ANGELS (2019) – Review
This week’s big new studio flick actually feels like a holdover from the Summer, with its big splashy...
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THE WARRIOR QUEEN OF JHANSI – Review
It’s Hollywood history time at the movies this weekend, though there’s more than a bit of Bollywood in...
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LAST CHRISTMAS – Review
We all may know someone who’s more than a little “Noel-nutty” (hey, it might be that person with...
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MIDWAY (2019) – Review
While the studios generally key lots of releases (mainly horror flicks and thrillers) for the Halloween holiday, the...
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PLAYING WITH FIRE (2019) – Review
Need to drop off the kids at the multiplex while you take care of some pre-Thanksgiving “prep”? Or...
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JO JO RABBIT – Review
This week’s new comedy/drama is a most unexpected entry in the career of a gifted international filmmaker. After...
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BLACK AND BLUE (2019) – Review
Are you ready for another “shoot-’em-up”, action-packed police thriller? Since you’re making a beeline to the multiplex I...
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THE LIGHTHOUSE (2019) – Review
This week brings another interesting pairing of actors. It was just a week ago that Angelina Jolie and...
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MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL – Review
So, whatcha’ gonna’ be for Halloween? You can bet that the Hollywood Studios and the multiplex know that...
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DOLEMITE IS MY NAME – Review
Here’s the latest flick in the multiplex’s recent love affair with show biz of the last century. Well,...
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THE ADDAMS FAMILY (2019) – Review
Move over ABOMINABLE, it’s time for another big animated feature film to hit the ole’ multiplex. Unlike the...
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JOKER – Review
Fall has finally truly arrived (those 90s temps have at last vacated), so it’s really time to get...
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TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID – Review
This film’s premise may promise many flights of fantasy and endearing whimsical humor, but what it delivers is...
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RAISE HELL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MOLLY IVINS – Review
Last week I extolled the pleasures of a new documentary feature focused on a very talented singer, Ms....
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HUSTLERS – Review
So, are movie audiences ready for another flick about good looking women being very, very bad? Well, not...
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LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE – Review
Last week filmgoers were treated to a rather nifty feature documentary, FIDDLER: A MIRACLE OF MIRACLES, all about...
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GIVE ME LIBERTY – Review
Who’s game for a wild ride (not really a joyride) in a big clunky van through the mean...
