The Bearded Trio

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN Starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Keala Settle, Austyn Johnson, Cameron Seely  Story by Jenny Bicks Screenplay by Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon Directed by Michael Gracey Reviewed by Patrick Gibbs   Out of Four In the mid '90's, we got two opposite extremes of of the "true story movie: Disney's Pocahontas was  a briskly entertaining, magical film that was a pure delight from start to finish and had a great message, but bared about as much resemblance to history as McDonalds does to haute cuisine. Lawrence Kasdan's Wyatt Earp  was a long, slow. drawn out epic that told the closest thing we'll probably ever get to the real story of its title figure on the big screen, but it left many wondering why this man's story deserved to be told.  At the time, there was no question in my mind that I preferred Pocahontas, and I still refuse to apologize for my love of that film, but the distortion of h...

LIFE Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Fergusson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada,  Ariyon Bakare, Olga Dihovichnaya Written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick Directed by Daniel Espinosa Reviewed by Patrick & Paul Gibbs   Out of Four S pace movies are back, and we're not just talkig about  Star Wars , or even  Guardians of the Galaxy . Ever since Alfonso Cuaron's  Gravity  set the box office on fire (or would have if fire could burn in space, which it cannot, despite what  Star Wars  might say), astronauts have been in vogue, with movies such as  Interstellar  and  The Martian.  People seem to be interested in reaching for the stars again, if not on a launch pad, at least in a darkened theatre.  We've seen the interest wane as the quality drops (think The Space Between Us) . so it's hard to say how much longer it will last. But it was, of course, inevitable that at some point this trend woul...