ReelBob: ‘War Dogs’
By Bob Bloom “War Dogs” could have been a skewed examination of fulfilling the American dream, or a satire about inept oversight and corruption. The […]
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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: ‘Hell or High Water’
By Bob Bloom Small towns clinging to survival and little ranches fending off bankers who covet the land dot the rural, uninviting Texas landscape of […]
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ReelBob: ‘Indignation’
By Bob Bloom Marcus Messner is a very intense young man. The son of middle-class Jewish parents from Newark, N.J., Marcus (Logan Lerman) is given […]
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ReelBob: ‘Anthropoid’
By Bob Bloom During World War II, two films were made that centered on the 1942 assassination of high-ranking SS official Reinhard Heydrich, the Reich […]
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