At The Movies

West Side Story
An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds. Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story reboot is a vividly dreamed, cunningly modified and visually staggering revival. No one but Spielberg could have brought it off, creating a movie in which Leonard Bernstein’s score and Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics blaze out with fierce new clarity.
 

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8-Bit Christmas (HBO Max)
In suburban Chicago during the late 1980s, ten-year-old Jake Doyle embarks on a herculean quest to get the latest and greatest video game system for Christmas. Surprisingly an enjoyable movie even though it copied a few ideas from a few movies overall still an entertaining one to watch. It has a decent mixture of The Princess Bride, A Christmas Story and Jingles All The Way. Still you can overlook those aspect and see a heart warming story put together here and done very well. 8-Bit Christmas featuring Neil Patrick Harris and Winslow Fegley is streaming with subscription on HBO MAX.
 

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Lost In Space (Netflix)
Lost in Space follows the Robinson family after they crash land on a remote alien planet. The hit Netflix show will debut its third and final season later this week. Molly Parker, Toby Stephens and Maxwell Jenkins star in the Emmy nominated series, which was lauded for its impressive special effects. Watch the beginning of the end on Netflix this Wednesday, December 1st, when Lost in Space Season 3 premiers.
 

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