ReelBob: ‘Marshall’ ★★★½
By Bob Bloom If not for Chadwick Boseman, “Marshall” would be your typical early-years-of-a-great-person biopic. Wisely, though, Boseman, who seems to have cornered the market […]
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I am the former movie critic and Blu-ray/DVD reviewer at the Journal & Courier in Lafayette, Ind. Prior to that, I wrote movie reviews for The Dispatch in Columbus, Ohio, and The Sun in Springfield, Ohio. I am a film collector, who enjoys serials, B-Westerns, classic horror films as well as contemporary features.
ReelBob: ‘The Foreigner’ ★★★
By Bob Bloom I have said on several occasions that, with his athleticism and agility, Jackie Chan is the equivalent of a modern-day Buster Keaton. […]
Continue reading »ReelBob: 2017 Heartland Film Festival: Short films roundup
By Bob Bloom For tickets and show times, please click here. “Just Go!” What can a 10-plus minute movie tell you about a person. In […]
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ReelBob: 2017 Heartland Film Festival: ‘The Maestro’ ★★
For tickets and show times, please click here. By Bob Bloom “The Maestro,” a period piece about talent and dreams, fails to hit all the […]
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