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Posted on May 5, 2022May 5, 2022

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)

In this self-parody Nicolas Cage plays faded actor Nick Cage is paid $1 million to attend a fan’s birthday party, the 2 become buds & they face gangsters in wild chases.

Posted on November 4, 2016November 4, 2016

Before the Flood (2016)

Leonardo DiCaprio takes us on a globe-circling trip talking with climate change experts, politicians, & activists & showing its effects on land & people.

Posted on January 19, 2015January 26, 2015

Top Five (2014)

A comedy star tries to make a serious movie. Fans & critics push back, & at the film’s NYC opening he meets a TIMES reporter who changes his wedding plans.

Posted on January 18, 2012March 21, 2018

My Week With Marilyn (2011)

  Rated R. Our Ratings: V -0; L -5; S/N -6. Running time: 1 hour 39 min. Our star rating (1-5): 4 Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing… And we urge you, beloved, to admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all …

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