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First Take: Fantastic Four: First Steps - it’s fourth time lucky for Marvel’s first family

Spoiler Free as usual. Because Galactus would devour me if I ruined it on opening weekend. SYNOPSIS: Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the…
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First Take: Superman - DC looked up… and they found the promised land

Spoiler free as usual. Because spoilers are our kryptonite. SYNOPSIS: Superman must reconcile his alien Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringin…
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First Take: Jurassic World Rebirth: worth it only to see ONE trailer

SYNOPSIS: Five years post-Jurassic World: Dominion, an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric cr…
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First Take: Lilo & Stitch - ohana means family… even in live action

SYNOPSIS: A lonely Hawaiian girl befriends a runaway alien, helping to mend her fragmented family. I’ve had a love/hate relationship with the Disney …
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First Take: Elio - Pixar start to get creative once again

SYNOPSIS: Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with alien lifeforms,…
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First Take: How To Train Your Dragon - the DreamWorks classic somehow nails the landing in live action

SYNOPSIS: As an ancient threat endangers both Vikings and dragons alike on the isle of Berk, the friendship between Hiccup, an inventive Viking, and…
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Front Row | The New Monthly Preview Show from TheJackSmit.com

Before this year’s Marathon Day, the team behind The Journal, and an even bigger group of film nerds got talking. What those chats in a certain off…
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