‘Logan’ underwhelms in final outing

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4/10 After 17 years and nine movies, comic book die-hards are finally getting the Logan they always wanted — the warrior-poet who curses like a sailor as he graphically dismembers other characters, barely in control of his feral rage.

Too bad he’s too old to do any of that.

In Logan, mutants suddenly stopped being born years ago, and by 2029, they are all but extinct. Logan (Hugh Jackman) works as a limo driver in El Paso, Texas, to take care of a dementia-stricken Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart). Unable to escape his violent past, Logan is sought out to protect Laura (Dafne Keen), a young clone/child of him, from Donald Pierce (Boyd Holbrook) and his band of cybernetically enhanced Reavers.

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Oscar upset isn’t fair to anyone

Photo by Chris Pizello, AP.

Presenters shocked the world last night by presenting the Academy Award for Best Picture to the wrong movie due to a clerical error. While no one wanted this onstage situation, in which La La Land producers were asked to physically hand their Oscars over to Moonlight, it’s nice to have such a wonderful visual representation of what essentially happened behind the scenes.

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The Open Bar Review – 2016 Oscars

La La Land’s going to win that.

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On La La Land and fascist propaganda

Image courtesy Summit Entertainment.

As La La Land danced through theaters the past few months to the tune of $137.5 million domestic, a record-tying 14 Academy Award nominations and a Best Picture victory that’s been presumed to be in the bag for months now, it’s also picked up a few serious accusations. Some say it’s white-washing black erasure. Some say it’s fascist propaganda.

Let’s put that shit to bed right now.

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The Open Bar Review – A Cure for Wellness

In which Paul confesses to the recent terror attacks in Sweden.

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