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John Hanlon Reviews

Film Reviews

The Finest Hours Review

The Finest Hours

Release Date: January 29th, 2016

In 2014, find director Craig Gillespie turned an inspiring story about a sports agent coaching young athletes from India into great entertainment with his film Million Dollar Arm. The drama was innocuous and traditional but was built strongly enough that the film’s...

The 5th Wave

The 5th Wave

Release Date: January 22nd, 2016

There’s a solid story underneath the superficial young adult clichés that overshadow the plot of the new film The Fifth Wave. One only wishes that the filmmakers would’ve felt confident enough to focus on the uniqueness of this story rather than inundate it with...

Dirty Grandpa Review

Dirty Grandpa

Release Date: January 22nd, 2016

Over the years, medical there have been a variety of crude comedies that try to elicit laughter through gross masturbation sequences and relentless jokes about the male and the female anatomy. The thing — the enormous difference between many of those films and Dirty Grandpa,...

"13 Hours" Review

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Release Date: January 15th, 2016

The subject of what transpired on the night of September 11th 2012 in Benghazi, Libya has been up for debate since that horrific day. In the debate about who was responsible for the attacks that left four people dead (including Ambassador Chris Stevens), analysts and political...

The Revenant Review

The Revenant

Release Date: January 8th, 2016

“As long as you can still grab a breathe, cheapest you fight.” That is the unmistakable and undeniable mantra of Hugh Glass, the tough frontiersman at the center of the new drama The Revenant. Played by Leonardo DiCaprio, Glass is a guide in the 1820s who has witnessed...

The Big Short Review

The Big Short

Release Date: December 11th, 2015

Warner Brothers Home Entertainment has announced that the 2015 drama The 33 will be arriving on Blu-Ray and DVD on February 16th but users can purchase it early on Digital HD on February 2nd. The drama was released nationwide in November of 2015 and tells the true story of the...

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Joy

Release Date: December 25th, 2015

When I recently entered a theater for a midday showing of the new drama Joy, seek I knew that the film was the story of a young female pioneer who helped invent the Magic Mop. What I didn’t realize is that the story is about much, much more than one success story. This is a...

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