…Chris Pratt will be an amiable, cruise-along, conservative-minded, go-for-the-paycheck beefalo…forever teetering between “well-fed” and “whoa, time to watch the intake and hit the treadmill.”
As the fiancee of Katherine Schwarzenegger and future son-in-law of “green” Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger, Pratt is well allied. He’s kind of a John Wayne figure, in a way. Fraternal, smiling, “big,” a traditionalist with his hand out and ready to rock ‘n’ roll.
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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Unless Part Two of Kevin Costner‘s Horizon (Warner Bros., 8.16) somehow improves upon the sluggish initial installment and delivers something...
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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