A STYLISH (YET IMPERFECT) LAST DANCE Released back in the summer of 2012, Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike was a surprising hit, finding a special niche with moviegoers in a tale that was loosely based on now popular actor Channing Tatum’s experience as a male stripper. The film, which starred Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Joe Manganiello, and Matt Bomer, centered
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TEAM FRIENDSHIP! The Shrek franchise has been around for quite some time, which showcased the potential that DreamWorks Animation Studios could achieve in their flagship series of Ogres, Princesses, Talking Donkeys, and other fairy tales creatures from the “Once Upon a Time” realm. Though a long-running franchise, the Shrek saga has indeed petered out of steam, with the last
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A THINLY WRITTEN AND FORMULAIC COMEDY Over the years, comedy motion pictures have had a different of varieties of platforms in undertaking a comedic (laugh-out-loud) storytelling within the guise of theatrical presentation. While this form of genre storytelling has often followed the antics and tomfoolery of male centric protagonist characters (more often that not), the female oriented endeavors have
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ANOTHER PASSABLE COMEDY Who doesn’t love to laugh? The laughable (and bankable) takes on comedic levity as transcend itself on many different platforms from cartoon strips, to stand-up comedy, to television sitcoms, to quirky novels, and everything else in-between. As many would summarize, Hollywood (or rather motion pictures in general) is no strangers towards producing comedy feature films and
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