At The Movies
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a long lost relic, but their charming adventure goes dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. Based on the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, it is set in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting and has no connections to the film trilogy released between 2000 and 2012. Chris Pine delivers like a young Bob Hope. Michelle Rodriguez is pithy and tart , Rege-Jean Page is broad, Justice Smith is intricate, Daisy Head is a no-nonsense waif, and Hugh Grant is self-absorbed zany. Together this ensemble keeps you waiting for the unpredictable because you just don't know what they will say or reveal.
 

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Spinning Gold
A biopic of 1970s record producer Neil Bogart, co-founder of Casablanca Records. Neil Bogart (Jeremy Jordan) launches Casablanca Records in the 1970s, giving rise to such musical acts as Donna Summer, Parliament, Gladys Knight, the Isley Brothers, the Village People, Bill Withers and KISS. Along with a rag-tag team of young music lovers, Casablanca Records rewrites history and changes the industry forever. Some of todays hot artists represent the roster on Casablancas label. For fans of music and the 70's this is an interesting look behind the scenes of the little label that could.

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Tetris
The story of how one of the world's most popular video games found its way to players around the globe. Businessman Henk Rogers (Taron Egerton) and Tetris inventor Alexey Pajitnov join forces in the USSR, risking it all to bring Tetris to the masses. Set amid a tumultuous time for the USSR and the video game industry, the film frames itself as a combination of origin story, biopic, and conspiracy thriller. It doesn’t always work, and sometimes the film gets boxed in by its own conceit, but the story of how one of the world’s favorite games landed on a global stage is fun enough, and tense enough, that it’s still worth playing.
 

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