At The Movies

Cyrano
Cyrano de Bergerac (Peter Dinklage) dazzles everyone with his ferocious wordplay and brilliant swordplay. However, he's convinced his appearance renders him unworthy of the affections of the luminous Roxanne, a devoted friend who's in love with someone else. his movie has everything. Sweeping musical sequences, the yearning, the fencing, the swashbuckle, romance and more. Dinklage give a heartfelt performance in his starring role.
 

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Don't Look Up (Netflix)
Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth. Director Adam McKay latest outing is a biting satire with its crosshairs clearly aimed at politicians and the larger society out there who are apathetic of the looming climate crisis facing the world. Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo Di Caprio star as a pair of scientist who discover a rogue comet, headed towards the Earth, triggering what they estimate to be an extinction level event. The comet and the crisis surrounding it are used as an effective metaphor by McKay to critique everything from modern society’s obsession with pop culture, how technology controls us rather than the other way around and also takes aim even at media and news channels and how they sensationalize even the most trivial of stories.
 

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The Book Of Boba Fett (Disney+)
The legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett navigates the underworld of the galaxy with mercenary Fennec Shand when they return to the sands of Tattooine to stake their claim on the territory formerly ruled by the deceased crime lord Jabba the Hutt. The Book of Boba Fett, a thrilling Star Wars adventure, finds legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand navigating the galaxy's underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once ruled by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate.
 

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A second season of HBO’s 2021 sleeper hit limited series Mare of Easttown has yet to be confirmed by the network, but star Kate Winslet already has an idea of where a possible follow-up run would take the show.

Spider-Man: No Way Home, soared past the $1 billion barrier at the global box office in just its second week of release. That makes Sony’s smash hit not only the fastest blockbuster to accomplish that ten-figure feat since 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but also the first billion dollar grosser worldwide since the pandemic began.

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