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The Jungle Book

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I’ll be honest. I don’t fully remember watching the Disney animated “The Jungle Book” as a kid. Sure, I’m sure that I watched it a few times as most of us do, but beyond the “Bare Necessities” I really don’t recall much about it. So going into Jon Favreau’s 2016 live-action remake of the tale, I had a fairly clean slate. Immediately, you are confronted with the unmistakable reality that the CGI animals in this movie are AMAZING. We first see the wolf cubs and Bagheera(Sir Ben Kingsley) as they train with Mowgli(Neel Sethi) in the ways of the jungle. … Continue reading The Jungle Book

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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

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According to the Saturday Night Live skit “Get in the Cage, with Nicolas Cage,” “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance” has the two classic elements of a Nicolas Cage movie. First, all the lines in the movie are either whispered or screamed, and second, everything in the movie is on fire.

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance has some wacky moments, and the classic elements of a Nic Cage movie.

The sequel takes place five years after the first, and Johnny Blaze is still attempting to control the curse placed upon him by the devil. He is hiding out in a remote part of Eastern Europe when he is contacted to help a secret sect of the Church asks him to help save a boy from the devil. Continue reading “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance”