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Movie Reviews by Todd Wofford— Funny, informative movie reviews

Jan 2022

Being the Ricardos (2021)::rating::4::rating::4::rating::4

F ew TV stars, past or present, could breathe the same rarified air as Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. As a power couple, they dominated the Nielsen ratings throughout the…

Dec 2021

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The Matrix Resurrections (2021)::rating::2.5

I ronically, The Matrix Resurrections trades heavily on nostalgia for that pioneering first film, while also embodying many of the same flaws that doomed its sequels: For all the explosions and…

Dec 2021

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Die Hard 2 (1990)::rating::3

If the first film was great, then this one rates as pretty good. As inevitable movies go, Die Hard 2 could’ve been a lot worse.

Dec 2021

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The Power of the Dog (2021)::rating::4.5

L ike many of the greatest Westerns, Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog is a film built on paradoxes. Phil Burbank (Benedict Cumberbatch) is an eccentric cowboy who somehow projects charisma…

Dec 2021

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The Last Duel (2021)::rating::3.5

When The Last Duel tanked at the box office, director Ridley Scott threw a raving hissy fit. He blamed the film's financial failure on millennials with their iPhones and the Facebook…

Nov 2019

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Motherless Brooklyn (2019)::rating::2.5

In Motherless Brooklyn, writer-director-star Edward Norton paints with brilliant brush strokes, but he doesn’t know when to step back from the canvas.

Nov 2019

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Cinemavino — Episode 51: Raging Scorsese::rating::0

For this episode, we bring in a special guest, Daniel Gimlin, to discuss Scorsese’s Marvel comments, and talk about The Irishman. We also drink The Bull, a delicious, fruit-forward red…

Oct 2019

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