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Instant Family - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Nov 20, 2018 - 4:25:53 PM
A married
couple decide to start a family and find themselves traversing the
daunting landscape of foster care adoption. They were expecting to take
in a single child but end up opening their doors to three siblings of
different ages as they try to figure a way to work around instant
parenthood and form bounds that could lead to them forming a real
family.
Pete & Ellie Wagner are a couple who flip houses for a
living and decide to become foster parents with the goal of starting a
family, but the foster children they end up taking in are more than they
bargained for...
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Bohemian Rhapsody - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Nov 16, 2018 - 9:45:56 AM
The story of a world famous band’s meteoric rise to fame due to their
now iconic sound and phenomenal lead singer, as they defied long held
conventions and shattered stereotypes of that time. We see how the
turmoil within the band lead to performances that cemented their legacy
in the hearts and minds of people from different walks of life all over
the globe from the very young to the very old.
Farrokh Bulsara
aka Freddie Mercury becomes the lead vocalist for the rock band Smile
which becomes the band Queen and with its rise to super stardom he
explores a lifestyle he is unsure of at first...
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Goosebumps - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Oct 15, 2018 - 9:33:49 AM
A writer of young adult horror books must team up with his daughter and
her teenage friends to stop the monsters who have escaped from his
manuscripts. Together they must find a way to keep the creations of his
imagination from destroying the town they now call home.
R.L.
Stine is the creator of the Goosebumps franchise with the secret that
all of the monsters he has created are real and trapped in the original
manuscripts waiting to be freed. Hannah Stine is R.L. Stine’s daughter...
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Crazy Rich Asians - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Oct 5, 2018 - 6:46:31 AM
When a young woman visits the foreign land of her parent’s birth to meet
her boyfriend’s family on the occasion of his best friend’s wedding,
she is caught off-guard on learning significant details about his status
in that part of the world. She soon learns that being on his arm puts a
target on her back where local socialites are concerned and the
disapproval of his mother complicates matters in ways she never
imagined...
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The Predator - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Sep 30, 2018 - 12:27:39 PM
When a lethal hunter from outer space brings its battle with a
genetically upgraded version of itself to Earth, it takes a ragtag
collection of soldiers deemed mentally unfit for duty and a renegade
scientist to prevent an escalation of violence capable of engulfing the
entire human race.
Quinn McKenna is a former Army Ranger who made
contact with a Predator and was able to escape its clutches with some
of its weaponized alien technology which he mails to a different
location before his government captures him.
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Predator - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Sep 16, 2018 - 10:20:03 AM
The leader of a team of military special forces operatives is sent with
them on a covert mission to rescue another group which was sent to
assist in a nefarious government plan in the jungles of a foreign
country. While there he encounters a former military buddy who is now
working with a government organization to squelch a joint effort of
foreign and local armies operating in the area. After the elite team
dispatches the entrenched armed force, they soon find themselves being
picked off by a camouflaged opponent with weapons not of this world...
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The Darkest Minds - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Aug 21, 2018 - 7:58:23 PM
When a virus kills 98% of the world’s children, the remaining 2%
discover they possess super human abilities. After escaping one of the
camps that the government has placed the young people in, a teen joins a
group of runaways searching for a rumored safe haven. They soon realize
that running is not yielding the desired fruit of their labor and
decide to wage a resistance by using their combined powers to take back
control.
Ruby Daly is a teen with the power to control the minds
of people, who escaped a government run concentration camp and is now
part of a small group of runaways searching for a rumored sanctuary...
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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Aug 7, 2018 - 2:00:40 PM
The entire Impossible Missions Force is shut down under implications
of involvement in a global terrorist plot that could lead to a new
world war. Ghost Protocol is initiated and a small unit of the disavowed
IMF agents must find a way to clear the organization's name and, with
limited resources, stop the threat that framed them. If they fail, the
landscape of the globe could be changed forever.
Ethan Hunt is
the leader of the rogue team of disavowed IMF agents who must put aside
his personal demons to take point on a mission that could mean the
obliteration of the world's super powers in global nuclear war...
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Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation- Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Aug 5, 2018 - 5:58:44 PM
After the disbanding of an international espionage organization by its
government of origin an agent of that now disbanded organization must
now face off against a network of highly skilled operatives from a rival
espionage organization while trying to prove that organization's
existence to his superiors. To do this the agent must assemble the
scattered members of his former team as the rival espionage organization
attempts to establish a new world order through an escalating series of
coordinated terrorist attacks.
Ethan Hunt is an Impossible
Mission Force agent who finds himself 'out in the cold' when the
organization is absorbed by the Central Intelligence Agency due to the
outcome of a Senate oversight committee hearing and must now prove the
existence of The Syndicate with limited resources...
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Mission : Impossible - Fallout - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Aug 4, 2018 - 9:11:07 PM
After a mission goes awry, an operative for a top-secret government
organization must rally his team in a race against time to recover
components that could be used to make weapons of mass destruction. As
the team goes about their business of fixing their mistake, they must
deal with an operative from the parent organization of their division
monitoring their activities and reporting their actions to a superior.
Ethan
Hunt is the field leader of an Impossible Missions Force team that has
lost three plutonium cores to a terrorist group of former spies known as
The Apostles and must now take extreme measures to get them back.
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Mission : Impossible 2 - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Aug 4, 2018 - 12:34:38 PM
A trusted operative of a top-secret government organization is tasked
with retrieving a deadly synthetic virus from a rogue operative of the
same organization. In order to successfully accomplish his mission he
must recruit the former lover of the operative to infiltrate his team,
but during the course of the mission he falls for her and must decide if
her life is worth the potential death of millions...
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Mission: Impossible - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Aug 4, 2018 - 11:23:13 AM
An operative of an espionage organization embarks on a daring scheme to
clear his name after he is framed for the death of several colleagues
and falsely branded a traitor. He forms a team of similarly disgraced
former operatives to retrieve data that can be used to flush out the
true traitor in their midst.
Ethan Hunt is the point man of an Impossible Missions Force team who is
the only member left alive and blamed for his team’s death which forces
him to find a way to clear his name & uncover the real culprit
behind the mission’s failure...
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Sicario: Day Of The Soldado - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Aug 2, 2018 - 3:44:01 PM
When a terrorist bombing is linked to drug cartels trafficking migrants
illegally across a border, a government agent persuades a mysterious
colleague to join his elite team tasked with escalating the war between
cartels on the other side of the border. When the team kidnaps a
kingpin’s daughter and new information comes to light about the terror
attack, she becomes a liability in the minds of the officials who
sanctioned the kidnapping leaving her fate between the two enigmatic
men.
Alejandro Gillick is a former lawyer whose family was killed
by a cartel and is now a hitman with ties to the Central Intelligence
Agency as an operative in the campaign of the war on drugs...
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Sicario - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Aug 1, 2018 - 8:01:40 PM
An idealistic federal agent is enlisted by an elite government task
force official to aid in an escalating war against drugs in a lawless
border area between two countries. Led by an enigmatic consultant with a
shady past, the squad sets out on a covert assignment that forces the
federal agent to re-evaluate her belief structure in order to make it
back to her former job alive.
Kate Macer is an agent for the
Federal Bureau of Investigation who has been chosen to join a Black Ops
Task Force on a clandestine mission that will challenge her core beliefs
in justice & security...
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Jurassic World : Fallen Kingdom - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Jul 31, 2018 - 7:30:20 PM
Three years after the theme park & luxury resort of cloned
dinosaurs was shut down due to a containment breach, the island’s
dormant volcano roars back to life and threatens to kill the remaining
dinosaurs on the island. A former dinosaur wrangler and the current head
of the campaign to stop the re-extinction of dinosaurs must team up on
an expedition to rescue as many dinosaurs as possible from the dangerous
land mass. As they work with a team of outside crusaders, a conspiracy
emerges that could lead to a version of the world not seen for millions
of years...
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Equalizer 2 - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Jul 23, 2018 - 9:05:25 PM
A former government agent, thought dead, has resurfaced to bring
unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed who are fortunate
enough to come to his attention. When someone close to him is in need of
such justice he goes above and beyond the call of duty to make sure
those responsible pay for their heinous crime.
Robert McCall is a
former C.I.A. operative who now works for Lyft and deals in vigilante
justice for those who have no one to defend them, but he surpasses his
previous efforts when it is for someone he loves. Susan Plummer is a
friend of McCall and an investigator for the Central Intelligence Agency
who is called out of semi-retirement to consult on a murder-suicide in
Brussels involving an asset...
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The Equalizer - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Jul 23, 2018 - 9:58:56 AM
The tagline for this movie: What Do You See When You Look At Me? A man
who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated
himself to a quiet new life, soon meets someone in need to whom he is
drawn to help. With his hidden skills, he decides to mete out vengeance
to anyone who makes it a point to brutalize the helpless. If someone has
a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere
else to turn, he will come out of his self-imposed retirement for
justice.
Robert McCall works at a hardware store and lives a
somber life until the crime & corruption around him awakens a side
of himself he thought he had buried with the talents of a covert
military operative...
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Incredibles 2 - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Jul 2, 2018 - 7:43:34 PM
The mother of a super-powered family is chosen by a wealthy benefactor
to change the public’s perception of superheroes in a bid to legalize
them. When a new villain hatches a plot that could end the goodwill she
has fostered, her family and friends must work together to make the
world safe for powered & non-powered individuals.
Helen Parr
is the former Elastigirl who has been selected to be used in a campaign
to get the public behind the idea of a world with super-powered people
legally helping keep it safe again...
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Deadpool 2 - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
Jun 6, 2018 - 12:09:45 PM
After suffering an unforeseen tragedy, a disfigured mercenary with a
mutant power must find a reason to keep on living instead of finding new
ways to attempt to end his existence. He finds that purpose in the form
of a mutant child being hunted by a superpowered cyborg from the future
and sets out to create a new team of skilled individuals, in their own
fields, to help him protect the child.
Wade Wilson is the
mercenary known as Deadpool who is forced to go on a journey of self
-discovery as an X-Men Trainee in hopes of finding a meaning to his life
after a loss he has recently sustained...
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Deadpool - Movie review by Rouén Robinson -
May 29, 2018 - 6:37:38 PM
The origin story of a mercenary who was once a Special Forces operative
and is now an anti-hero after being subjected to a rogue experiment. He
is in the process of hunting downing the ones behind the experiment to
force them to change him back, so he can be with the woman he loves.
Wade
Wilson is a gun for hire who finds out he has rapid advancing cancer
through out his body and undergoes an experimental procedure that leaves
him an extreme healing factor, but so disfigured in mind and body that
he takes on the persona of Deadpool.
