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Review: The UPPER Footage – A Seriously Misguided Experiement
by Mike Reyes “The UPPER Footage IS THE FIRST FILM EXPERIENCE OF ITS KIND.” If You’ve Been In A Coma Since The Dawn Of Film. In 2011, some footage of a random woman doing cocaine in a bar became such a...
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Cocktails and Movies Review: Need for Speed – A Damn Fun Time
by Mike Reyes If you love the Fast And Furious franchise, then you’ve just found yourself a new favorite movie When The Fast and The Furious burst onto screens in 2001, it reinvigorated the car culture...
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Cocktails and Movies Review: “Mr. Peabody and Sherman”– A Classic Romp In A...
by Mike Reyes Mr. Peabody And Sherman polishes up an old apple… You’ll love it as much as your kids Mr. Peabody And Sherman is one of those classic cartoons that fans love and Hollywood loves to...
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Cocktails And Movies Take Out Theater: “Speed Racer”
by Mike Reyes Speed Racer Is The Closest Thing To A Living, Breathing Anime In 2008, when Speed Racer took a bath at the box office worldwide, The Wachowskis had transformed their careers into the form...
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Cocktails and Movies’ Review: “Divergent”– Turning Katniss Into Bella
by Mike Reyes What could have been a pretty good movie, is nothing more than another stiff adaptation with a couple highlight performances. I did not expect to like the book Divergent, in fact I almost...
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Cocktails and Movies Review: “Muppets Most Wanted”– Criminally Fun(ny)
by Mike Reyes The Muppets Are Together Again (Again) In Their Most Daring, Most Charming, Most Recent Adventure… And It Lives Up To The Hype! Growing up as a Movie Buff in training, there are two films...
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Cocktails and Movies Review: “The Grand Budapest Hotel”– Wes Anderson At His...
by Tim Barley The Grand Budapest Hotel takes Anderson’s usual character driven fare and amps it up with great action, mystery and beautiful, rich panache. Wes Anderson’s films either drive people crazy...
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Cocktails and Movies Review: “Transcendence”– 404: Backstory Not Found
By Tim Barley and Mike Reyes Transcendence could have been a great movie. Unfortunately, the execution does just that to the story. I am NOT the Lawn Mower Man 2.0… Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) has it...
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Cocktails And Movies Review: “Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes”– A Thinking...
By Mike Reyes Matt Reeves completes the franchise’s transformation from campy sci-fi classic to a full blown cerebral spectacle! Growing up as a movie geek, there would be certain movies I’d be all...
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Cocktails And Movies Review: “A Most Wanted Man”– The Antidote To Blockbuster...
By Mike Reyes The late Phillip Seymour Hoffman leads a cast of brilliance into another marvelous Le Carre adaptation. For the past decade or so, Hollywood has been on a streak with its creative...
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The Cocktails and Movies Holiday Movie Outlook
by Tim Barley Something for everyone this holiday season Hello, cocktailers! It’s been a while since we’ve posted anything what with a European trip to experience the true “Octoberfest” experience,...
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Cocktails And Movies Review: “Nightcrawler”– A Dark, Dirty Rewrite Of The...
By Mike Reyes Jake Gyllenhaal racks up a performance of a lifetime in this seething directorial debut. Remember the American dream we were promised as kids? Lou Bloom does, and he remembers it very...
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Cocktails And Movies Review: “Tomorrowland”– The Future That Never Was...
by Mike Reyes Brad Bird strikes again, as geeks and kids alike will go nuts over this sci-i adventure! Walt Disney was a man who had a stereotypical vision of a utopic future. A world where peace and...
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Celebrating With These Movies About “Work”
by Tim Barley & Mike Reyes CocktailsandMovies.com favorite movies about Labor Day It’s Labor Day everyone, and that’s means one last day to get together with friends, enjoying some grilling on the...
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Take Out Theater: The Guest
by Mike Reyes This week: Cocktails and Movies brings a mysterious Guest to the Take Out Theater, and you’re going to want them to stay for dinner! Around two years ago, Tim and I started this groovy...
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Cocktails And Movies Review: “10 Cloverfield Lane”– A Taut, Unexpected Thrill...
by Mike Reyes Don’t let the title fool you, 10 Cloverfield Lane is a film that’ll thrill fans and win detractors of the film’s 2008 namesake. It’s hard to preface a review of 10 Cloverfield Lane,...
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CocktailsandMovies “Month of Funny”– Top 10 Office Comedies
by Tim Barley Office Comedies: Making Fun of Your CoWorkers Hello, Cocktailers! Welcome to our first Top 10 list! This first list is dedicated to workplace comedies, which serve to help get us through...
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Cocktails and Movies “Month of Funny”– Top 10 Satires
by Tim Barley Movies showing that some people, issues and other movies are idiotic Satirical movies are some of the funniest comedies that come out. They make us laugh, while subliminally teaching us a...
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Cocktails And Movies Review: “Ghostbusters (2016)” – We’re Ready To Believe Them
by Mike Reyes While it’s not the perfect savior some hoped for, and not the total garbage fire its nay-sayers wish it was, Ghostbusters is a solid action / comedy that we more than welcome during the...
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Cocktails And Movies Review: “Star Trek Beyond” – New Director, Same Stellar...
by Mike Reyes Make no mistake, Star Trek Beyond goes to great lengths to prove that this 50 year old still has some impressive moves. With a story that pays homage to, rather than flat out remake, some...
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