Alan Rapp

Bride Hard

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  • Title: Bride Hard
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Bride Hard is a dumb comedy stuck in the middle of a bad spy film. I’m not sure how it made it into theaters. Perhaps no streaming service would take it. Rebel Wilson stars as Sam, an unorthodox spy who manages to get in trouble both at work and with her friends when she attempts to merge a mission in Paris with her childhood best-friend’s bachelorette party. Put on leave, Sam attempts to mend fences with Besty (Anna Camp) showing up to her wedding despite being downgraded from maid of honor, in favor of Betsy’s annoying new sister-in-law (Anna Chlumsky), to last among the bridesmaids. However, when armed terrorists show up to rob the rich family Betsy is marrying into, Sam puts the skills she’s kept secret from her friend to use.

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Jaws

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  • Title: Jaws
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Released 50 years ago, Steven Spielberg‘s Jaws forever changed what a summer movie was and what horror movie was capable of. Far more successful than anyone could hope, Jaws captured the hearts and minds of audiences making it the most profitable movie ever released in theaters (at least until a certain sci-fi fantasy hit theaters two years later). Despite it’s troubled production, including a mechanical shark that often wouldn’t work as intended, Spielberg delivered by suggesting the shark’s presence through most of the first-half of the film relying heavily on his human actors and John Williams‘ famous score to set the mood of the film.

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Elio

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  • Title: Elio
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For their latest, Pixar delivers a story about a young boy who has to be abducted by aliens to learn about friendship and family. Following the death of his parents, a lonely Elio (Yonas Kibreab) struggles to connect with his aunt (Zoe Saldaña) or make friends while becoming obsessed with the idea of alien life and traveling to the stars to escape a world where he doesn’t seem to belong. Eventually Elio gets his wish when his message to outer space is overheard and he finds himself among ambassadors of a federation of planets, so to speak, known as the Communiverse (a moniker that is as awkward spoken aloud as it looks in print).

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The Wheel of Time – Tel’aran’rhiod

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  • Title: The Wheel of Time – Tel’aran’rhiod
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While Rand al’Thor‘s (Josha Stradowski) awaits for the arrivals of the chiefs of the Ariel Waste, Egwene (Madeleine Madden) begins training to control the dreaming allowing her to help Moiraine Damodred (Rosamund Pike), who is still coming to terms with what she saw in the rings, send a desperate message home but also come upon a dark secret Rand has been keeping concerning Lanfear (Natasha O’Keeffe). At the White Tower, a trap is laid to discover if Elaida (Shohreh Aghdashloo) is Black Ajah, Min (Kae Alexander) officially joins Elayne (Ceara Coveney), Nynaeve (Zoë Robins), and Mat (Dónal Finn) in their search for the Ajah, and in the Two Rivers Perrin (Marcus Rutherford) and his friends attempt a rescue.

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