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In The Heart Of The Sea review

Plain whaling.  Herman Melville’s American-lit epic Moby Dick has been adapted for the screen a gazillion times (approximately), so kudos to Ron Howard for taking a slightly different approach, even if it never quite matches the resonance of Ahab’s epic quest. Melville’s text is still front and centre though: Ben …

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Vacation review

The Holiday Road gets re-paved. Go compare… “I’ve never even heard of the original vacation,” says the nonplussed teenage son of Rusty Griswold (Ed Helms) early on in this reboot of a 32-year-old cult classic. “Doesn’t matter,” replies his father, “the new vacation will stand on its own.” So important …

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Red Dawn review

Patrick Swayze, star of the original Red Dawn , passed away in September 2009 in the same week this remake started shooting. How’s that for a bad omen? True to form, Dan Bradley’s re-do wound up being shelved as a result of MGM’s 2010 bankruptcy and re-appears now, three years …

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