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Movie Review: "Deadpool 2" Has Better Action, More Laughs And An Added Moral Compass

DEADPOOL 2 Starring Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, Julian Dennison, Zazie Beetz,  T.J. Miller,  Brianna Hildebrand, Jack Kesy and Eddie Marsan Screenplay by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick and Ryan Reynolds Directed by David Leitch Reviewed by Patrick Gibbs     Out of Four I'm late to the party on Deadpool. I hate red band trailers with a passion, because far too often they are used to sell the movie to the crowd that just cares about graphic content and hearing lots of curse words. That doesn't offend me on a moral level, but it does on an artistic and comedic one. The red band trailers for the original  Deadpool  were far more based around proving how R-Rated it could be than how funny it could be, and when I missed the press screening due to illness, I just couldn't get excited about seeing it.  When I did, there was a lot I liked, but I could not have cared less about the revenge story and despite all of the buzz about...

Movie Review: MILD SPOILERS: "Life" May Be Worth Living, But It's Not Worth Watching

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...