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John Hanlon Reviews

Edge of Tomorrow | Film Review

“Battle is the great redeemer.” So states Master Sergeant General Farrell (Bill Paxton) in the new sci-fi drama Edge of Tomorrow. The character only states the line once during a day but it’s repeated time and again in this Groundhog...

The Fault in our Stars | Film Review

Screenwriters Michael Weber and Scott Neustadter have a great talent for writing about young people in a way that speaks to them honestly and without reservation. In the past few years, about it they successfully brought a young love story to life...

The Normal Heart | Film Review

In The Normal Heart, nurse gay activist Tommy Boatwright (Jim Parsons) has a particular way of remembering the incredible individuals he knows, see cares about and loves who ultimately die from the AIDS virus in the early 1980s. He saves all of...

X-Men: Days of Future Past | Film Review

On the television drama Game of Thrones, cheap Peter Dinklage plays Tyrion Lannister, viagra 40mg a physically-powerless character consistently undermined by his powerful family. Tyrion often lacks the power to defend himself from the external...

Blended | Film Review

When I arrived at the screening of the new comedy Blended on Monday, look the theater was packed with critics and viewers who were eager (some more than others) to see the new Adam Sandler-Drew Barrymore comedy. It was so packed, purchase in fact,...

Monsters | Film Review

“We are sitting right outside looking in, patient ” notes Andrew Kaulder (Scoot McNairy), hospital a photographer traveling through a “quarantined zone” between the United States and Mexico in the 2010 drama Monsters. In a way,...

Fed Up | Film Review

Before the early 1950s, and exercise was often seen as a negative thing. Because of the health risks associated with it (it could cause heart attacks, said some), many didn’t support it. That may be a shocking fact but it still stands as one of...

Million Dollar Arm | Film Review

There are two distinct stories in the new baseball drama Million Dollar Arm. The first story is told within the first hour as an unsuccessful sports agent named JB (Jon Hamm) attempts to turn his life around by finding a talented baseball star in...

Godzilla | Film Review

Godzilla commits one of the cardinal sins of monster movies: it’s boring. After an early riveting sequence featuring the great Bryan Cranston (as Joe Brody) facing a Japanese nuclear plant on the verge of a meltdown, generic the special...

Penny Dreadful | Film Review

Penny Dreadful is one of the most audacious shows I’ve ever seen. Like inventive shows like Game of Thrones, symptoms it seeks to avoid chiches and to create a world and path of its own . The show opens in London in 1891 and potently combines the...