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Star Wars : The Force Awakens - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Dec 23, 2019 - 3:15:51 PM
Decades after the defeat of an oppressive government and its dictator
whose influence had spread across the galaxy, a new unjust movement has
risen to fill the power vacuum. Only the combined effort of a group of
individuals from different walks of life can put an end to this new
threat with ties to the previous one.
FN-2187 is a stormtrooper
in the First Order who questions his training after his initial exposure
to the heartlessness of his squad...
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Star Wars : The Rise of Skywalker- Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Dec 22, 2019 - 12:53:23 PM
The surviving forces of the Resistance must find a way to rally the
civilians of the galaxy to fight against the remaining contingent of the
First Order just as their new supreme leader makes an alliance with an
ally hidden for years, but ready to shift the tide of battle with a
military of their own. A cadre of friends go on a mission to retrieve an
archaic artifact with information that may be able to lead them to the
key to unlocking one of their pasts while providing a path to galactic
victory...
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Joker - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Oct 15, 2019 - 2:30:53 PM
A mentally-troubled aspiring stand-up comic deals with disappointment as
he struggles in a fragmenting society. When a bad decision at his day
job as a clown-for-hire brings about a dire chain of events, he embarks
on journey of self discovery that parallels the city’s revolt along
class lines. As his downward spiral consumes him, he finds his true self
in a persona that will baptize him though bloody crime.
Arthur Fleck
is a down on his luck mentally unstable man working at a clown-for-hire
business with dreams of becoming a famous comedienne if he could
overcome his current condition...
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Veronica Mars - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Aug 1, 2019 - 8:30:00 AM
A former teenage sleuth is pulled back into a life she thought she had
left behind when a message from an ex-lover causes her to return to her
home town. While there she reacquaints herself with family & friends
but old habits die hard when things don't seem right and she finds
herself in the midst of a mystery needing to be solved.
Veronica
Mars is a law student on the verge of getting a job at a high-end New
York law firm but a call from her past boyfriend brings her to her old
stomping grounds of Neptune to use her background in investigation to
help him find the right attorney for his case...
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Stranger Things (Season 3) - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Jul 11, 2019 - 2:40:20 PM
During the Summer in a small town that has dealt with intrusions from
other dimensions, the opening of a mall may not only lead to the closing
of local businesses but could also be the harbinger of something more
sinister. As a group of friends on the cusp of adulthood deal with how
the blossoming of romances has begun to complicate their relationship
dynamic, they are unaware of the danger looming which was thought to be
cut off from them and their town...
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Avengers: Endgame - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - May 20, 2019 - 10:40:48 AM
After the crushing defeat that wiped out half of life in the universe,
the remaining band of heroic figures stand together to keep the galaxy
from falling into chaos. As they work to maintain a sense of order while
dealing with their own loss, a returning hero may have the answer to
getting back the departed with a plan that could cost them more than
they are willing to risk...
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Shazam!- Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Apr 21, 2019 - 10:29:08 AM
A teenage foster child is given the ability to become a
superpowered adult by a dying wizard. As he revels in learning the
limits of his new powers with the help of his foster brother, he must
also learn what it takes to be a responsible superhero. If he is not
able to live up to his heroic potential, he may lose his power to an
evil that wants it for nefarious intentions.
William
‘Billy’ Batson is an orphaned boy looking for his birth mother and is
given the gift to become a grown up superhero being by saying the magic
word, ‘Shazam!’ Frederick ‘Freddy’ Freeman is Billy’s new foster brother...
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Us - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Mar 29, 2019 - 5:45:15 PM
An unresolved trauma is brought back to the mind of a woman by a string
of coincidences while on a trip to where the unexplained occurrence
originated. As her paranoia grows, she becomes increasing certain some
thing sinister will happen to her family. After a tense outing with
friends she returns with her family to their vacation home and when the
day turns to night, they find themselves confronted by four shadowy
figures in their driveway who eerily resemble them...
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Death Makes A Killer Comeback - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Mar 1, 2019 - 11:18:04 AM
When a formerly self absorbed student survives reliving her days she
finds out that she must help someone else reliving their days. When a
formerly self absorbed student survives reliving her birthday over and
over again, she finds the students responsible for the freak occurrence
but must help one of them to help herself live. When a formerly self
absorbed student finds herself reliving the same day after replacing
herself in an alternate timeline she must find a way to close her loop
with the help of her slightly different friends and decide if she wishes
to stay in that reality...
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Split - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Jan 29, 2019 - 10:20:24 PM
When three high school students are abducted by a man suffering from
dissociative identity disorder, it soon becomes a matter of survival
when they realize their kidnapping is part of a sacrificial ritual. The
kidnapper’s psychologist is alerted to his other personalities nefarious
intent, but she must piece together clues using her own deductive
reasoning from years of studying her patient to find out what his
identities are capable of.
Kevin Wendell Crumb is man afflicted
with DID (dissociative identity disorder) who has 23 personalities
fighting for control of his body with some of them believing in the
birth of a 24th personality which will protect them from the hurt and
ridicule of the world beyond them...
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Glass - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Jan 28, 2019 - 8:05:52 PM
After being captured by authorities a calculating domestic terrorist, a
cannibalistic serial killer and a cautious vigilante are placed under
the care of a psychiatrist at a mental institution who specializes in
what she believes they all suffer from. She has 3 days to cure them of
this delusion she believes they all possess before plans of more
permanent methods are put into effect to ensure that they are no longer a
threat to themselves and the world at large.
Elijah Price aka
Mr. Glass is a highly resourceful mass murderer who was
institutionalized after his crimes were discovered by David Dunn and is
now only visited by his mother Mrs. Price who tries to keep him engaged...
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Unbreakable - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Jan 28, 2019 - 11:39:01 AM
The sole survivor of a devastating train accident is contacted by a
mysterious stranger who offers him a bizarre explanation as to why he
emerged unscathed. As the survivor valiantly attempts to return to his
unfettered life of normalcy, he slowly begins to understand the truth
behind the explanation as it threatens to change his perception of
reality and the life of his family.
David Dunn is a security
guard & a former college football player who quit after a car
accident and is now the only survivor of the Eastraill 177 disaster
which leads to him meeting Elijah Price who has an unexpected answer...
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Replicas - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Jan 20, 2019 - 10:31:34 AM
A daring scientist working for a government-controlled laboratory
on a tropical island decides to use the facility's experimental
equipment to recreate his family members killed in a car accident. As he
goes against the existing laws of ethical science to achieve his goal,
he finds that he must face both moral and physical obstacles that he was
unprepared to deal with prior to the ordeal.
William
Foster is a research neuroscientist who is trying to transfer
consciousness from a biological being to a robotic one when his life
crashes around him...
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Jan 5, 2019 - 6:15:16 PM
One of the taglines for this movie: Enter a universe where more than one
wears the mask. A young teenager is thrust into the life of a superhero
after being bitten by a spider from another dimension. As he tries to
learn how to properly become the hero he wants to be so he can protect
those he loves from a world ending cataclysmic event, he finds himself
under the tutelage of other beings with similar powers temporarily
trapped in his dimension.
Miles Morales aka Spider-Man is a
teenager adapting to the fact that he has to go to a new school where
more is expected from him and deal with new powers he must learn to
master in a short period of time...
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Bumblebee - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Dec 24, 2018 - 3:10:25 PM
A lone warrior from a distant planet suffering from amnesia and left
mute from battle befriends a young woman dealing with the loss of a
parent. When enemies of the warrior find out where he has fled to, they
agree to cooperate with a covert military organization on the new planet
they have landed on with the goal of using the primitive technology of
the inhabitants to pinpoint the warrior’s exact location. The warrior
forms a bond with his human companion as they find strength in each
other to overcome the obstacles in their lives that they may not be able
to face alone...
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Transformers: Age of Extinction - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Dec 23, 2018 - 4:18:04 PM
Years after the an epic battle left a city in ruins humanity has picked
up the pieces and a shadowy group has taken it upon themselves to rid
the Earth of all alien robotic life. An ancient menace now has Earth in
its cross-hairs as it manipulates the human contingent to further its
ultimate goal of reclaiming a lost object of power. The leader of the
remaining extraterrestrial robot combatants must decide if humanity is
worth saving after such a betrayal...
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Dec 23, 2018 - 12:08:17 PM
One of the taglines for this movie: Mankind's Finest Achievement. Our
Nation's Proudest Moment. A Secret Hidden For Forty Years. When a
mysterious event from Earth's past erupts into the present day it
threatens to bring a war to Earth so big that the good alien robot army
alone will not be able to save us. As they learn of a spacecraft from
their home planet hidden on the Moon, it begins a race against the evil
robot army to reach it and learn its secrets...
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Transformers - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Dec 23, 2018 - 12:08:14 PM
The battle between two warring factions of a robotic race continues on
an alien planet. A young inhabitant of the planet is thrust into the war
when it is discovered that he hold information to the location of a
power source hidden on his planet generations before he was born.
Nostalgia
is a powerful thing. It is proof that sometimes the memory of something
makes that thing better than it really was. With that said I have to to
admit I had my doubts about Transformers. There was the poster of
Megatron with the word Destroy on it and the one of Optimus Prime with
the word Protect...
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Robin Hood (2018) - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Dec 9, 2018 - 12:00:17 PM
A war-hardened soldier returns from his tour of duty in a foreign land
to find his family estate in shambles. With the help of a soldier he
once showed kindness to, he will become a symbol to the people in his
area and show them that they can stand up to the unjust authority.
Robin
of Loxley is a nobleman drafted into the Crusades, but when he is sent
home from war due to actions his superior disagrees with he must find
away to get back the life taken from him. Yahya aka John is a Moorish
soldier who lost a hand in battle and has pledged an oath to take down
the people who were responsible for the war that killed his son and
agrees to train Robin to help facilitate this...
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Robin Hood (2010) - Movie review by Rouén Robinson - Dec 9, 2018 - 10:20:11 AM
A retelling of the origin of the Robin hood legend with 13th century
details. As the archer and his band of marauders confront corruption in a
local village and are used as pawns in a foreign plot to overthrow the
monarchy. With the country weakened by ineffective rule and an indulgent
upper class, the gang of skilled mercenaries with an appetite for all
life has to offer sets out to right the wrongs that the working class
must endure...
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