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CARRY ON – Review by Susan Granger

December 12, 2024December 14, 2024 Susan Granger jason bateman, Jaume Collet-Serra, netflix, Sofia Carson, Taron Egerton, Theo Rossi

With so many of us planning to fly this holiday season, Netflix’s explosive thriller – evoking memories of Die Hard – Carry-On couldn’t be timelier. It’s Christmas Eve at LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) and the rush is on. Thousands of travelers are loading their bags onto conveyor belts, eager to pass through security and board their designated flights. For 30 year-old Ethan Kopek (Taron Egerton) and his unexpectedly pregnant girl-friend Nora (Sofia Carson) it’s a celebratory day. Ethan’s been working as a low-level TSA agent just so he can have lunch every day with Nora, a supervisor at the same terminal. Meanwhile, a mysterious Traveler (Jason Bateman) is determined to get a dangerous bag through LAX security.

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JUNGLE CRUISE – Review by Leslie Combemale

July 27, 2021July 29, 2021 Leslie Combemale disney, Dwayne Johnson, emily blunt, Jaume Collet-Serra, jungle cruise, theme park attraction movie

Whoever pitched Disney’s new feature Jungle Cruise must have been a master of hyperbole. “It’s The Mummy meets Pirates of the Caribbean meets African Queen, but imagine Katherine Hepburn as a younger, smokin’ yet independent English hottie, and add the highest paid actor in the world.” If there were ever a final argument for ‘there’s nothing new under the sun’, Jungle Cruise would be it.

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JUNGLE CRUISE – Review by Martha K Baker

July 27, 2021August 1, 2021 Martha K. Baker (Archived Contributor) Dwayne Johnson, emily blunt, Jaume Collet-Serra, Jessie Plemons, jungle cruise, paul giamatti, wald disney studios

Erase all thoughts of Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn in African Queen from your mind. Delete scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Pretend you’re back at Disneyland on the Jungle Cruise because it lasts eight minutes compared to the film’s 127. The film version equals a theme park ride in fake-itude. Jungle Cruise, loud and long, is about as solid as the floating vegetation on the Amazon River.