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‘12 Strong’ turns heroic tale into generic war movie

The Chris Hemsworth-led picture feels like a half dozen or more recent war movies, which is what you can imagine the heads of various Hollywood studios saying —until producer Jerry Bruckheimer pleaded something along the lines of, “But, wait! This time there are horses!”

Steven Soderbergh returns with crowd-pleasing ‘Logan Lucky’

If people actually stuck to their retirement plans, we wouldn’t have next week’s latest fight of the century, the past 16 years of Kiss shows or Richard Nixon’s presidency.

Simple, elegant ‘Moonlight’ warrants hype as one of year’s best

Have you ever read a bunch of critics breathlessly praise a little movie you never knew existed, taken a chance and bought a ticket only to trudge out of the theater wondering what in the world we were thinking?

‘Ben-Hur’ an utterly unnecessary remake of 1959 classic

“Ben-Hur” improves on the Charlton Heston classic in precisely one way: Even with a run time of more than two hours, it’s still a full 90 minutes shorter. That’s it.

NAB Show treated to the sounds of ‘Star Wars’

The artists responsible for visual and audio effects in “The Force Awakens” were greeted like rock stars at the National Association of Broadcasters Show Monday.