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MOVIE REVIEW OF "THE CONTRACTOR" Chris Pine reunites with Ben Foster in their third outing together in Swedish director Tarik Saleh’s “The Contractor” (**** OUT OF ****), a sizzling but bittersweet...

MOVIE REVIEW OF THE BLACKOUT Nothing about the Netflix thriller “Blackout” (*** out of ****) from its generic title to its amnesiac hero who dodges trigger-happy hordes of gunmen after him is remotely...

MOVIE REVIEW OF THE "BANDIT'' If you crave true-life crime sagas, “Gridlocked” director Alan Ungar’s “Bandit” (*** OUT OF ****), should intrigue you. This lightweight but entertaining, action...

CHRIS BOTTI THE FINEST JAZZ TRUMPETER TODAY Chris Botti has a Grammy Award and a stellar reputation as one of the finest jazz trumpeters working today. What he doesn’t have is something most jazz...

MOVIE REVIEW OF THE ''BEAST" An avenging lion turns into a maneater in “Contraband” director Baltasar Kormákur’s exotic animal opus “Beast” (** OUT OF ****) after African poachers armed with...

5 Tips To Keep Your Brain Healthy Changes to your body and brain are normal as you age. However, there are some things you can do to help slow any decline in memory and lower your risk of developing...

MOVIE REVIEW OF ''THERE ARE NO SAINTS" A nihilistic exercise in misogyny, sadism, murder, and revenge, Hispanic helmer Alfonso Pineda Ulloa’s unsavory actioneer “There Are No Saints” (**1/2...

MOVIE REVIEW OF ''WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING" Movies made from bestsellers rarely live up to their literary origins. Happily, “Where The Crawdads Sing” (*** OUT OF ****) qualifies as an...

CODY CANNON PREVIEWS THE NEXT WHISKEY MYERS ALBUM, "TORNILLO"  From the first notes of the song “Tornillo,” which opens the new album of the same name that Whiskey Myers released in July, it’s apparent...

MOVIE REVIEW OF "WOLF HOUND" The spectacle of watching vintage World War II era aircraft perform aerial maneuvers in writer & director Michael B. Chait’s “Wolf Hound” (*** OUT OF ****) should make...