MPAA Rating: PG/ Genre: Historical Drama/ Stars: Peter O’ Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit, I. S. Johar, Gamil Ratib, Michel Ray, John Dimech, Zia Mohyeddin, Howard Marion-Crawford, Jack Gwillim, Hugh Miller/ Runtime: 226 minutes I feel…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Bridge of Spies “2015”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/ Genre: Historical Drama/ Stars: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Scott Shepherd, Amy Ryan, Sebastian Koch, Alan Alda, Austin Stowell, Billy Magnussen, Eve Hewson, Jesse Plemons, Michael Gaston, Peter McRobbie, Domenick Lombardozzi/ Runtime: 141 minutes I think it should be said dear reader that the heart and soul of…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: The King’s Speech “2010”
MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: Historical Drama/ Stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall, Derek Jacobi, Jennifer Ehle, Michael Gambon, Freya Wilson, Ramona Marquez, Patrick Ryecart, Simon Chandler, Claire Bloom/ Runtime: 118 minutes An ever-increasing amount of sweat, knees buckling in fear, skin tingling as if…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Lincoln
MPAA Rating: PG-13/ Genre: Historical Drama/ Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Tommy Lee Jones, Tim Blake Nelson, John Hawkes, Lee Pace, Peter McRobbie, Bruce McGill, Michael Stuhlbarg, Walton Goggins, Jared Harris, Jackie Earle Haley, Adam Driver, David Oyelowo, Lukas Haas, Dane DeHaan/…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Detroit “2017”
MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: Crime Drama/ Stars: John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell, Hannah Murray, Kaitlyn Dever, Jack Reynor, Ben O’Toole, John Krasinski, Anthony Mackie, Joseph David-Jones, Ephraim Sykes, Leon Thomas III, Nathan Davis Jr., Peyton Alex Smith, Malcolm David Kelley/ Runtime: 143 minutes When it…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: The Finest Hours
MPAA Rating: PG-13/ Genre: Historical-Adventure-Disaster-Drama/ Stars: Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Holliday Grainger, John Ortiz, Eric Bana, Josh Stewart, Graham McTavish, Kyle Gallner, John Magaro, Rachel Brosnahan, Michael Raymond-James/ Runtime: 117 minutes When one digs deeper into the true story that has inspired director Craig Gillespie and studio Disney’s…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Darkest Hour
MPAA Rating: PG-13/ Genre: Historical Drama/ Stars: Gary Oldman, Ben Mendelsohn, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Ronald Pickup, Stephen Dillane, Nicholas Jones, Richard Lumsden, Jeremy Child, Samuel West/Runtime: 125 minutes If there was ever a list of actors created who I felt best fit the definition of a chameleon then…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Marshall “2017”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/ Genre: Historical Legal Drama/ Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Dan Stevens, Sterling K. Brown, James Cromwell, Keesha Sharp, Jussie Smollett/ Runtime: 118 minutes I feel it highly appropriate to start this review off by stating that if you were to make a movie about…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Good Night, and Good Luck
MPAA Rating: PG/ Genre: Historical Drama/ Stars: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Frank Langella, Jeff Daniels, Tate Donovan, Ray Wise, Alex Borstein, Grant Heslov/Runtime: 93 minutes It has long been said that the visual mediums that are television and film have always been seen as possessing…